About EMESTO PRIME FUNGICIDE

• Emesto Prime is a novel fungicide that supports potato farmers against black scurf disease.
• It is a systemic xylem mobile fungicide and is formulated as a flowable concentrate for seed treatment.

Bayer Emesto Prime Technical Details

• Technical Name: Penflufen 240 g/L
• Mode of Action: Through its active ingredient penflufen, kills fungi by inhibiting the enzyme succinate dehydrogenase. This enzyme is essential for their breathing process in the mitochondria.
• Penflufen spreads evenly on potato tubers and the soil surrounding them, protecting young sprouts and growing tubers. It flows through the plant’s vessels, providing protection from the inside out, making it a robust solution for potato crops.

Key Features & Benefits

• Emesto Prime Fungicide treated potato seeds germinate and emerge quickly out of the soil minimizing the time for black scurf to attack the emerging plant beneath the soil.
• It helps in making the plants stronger with higher vitality and gives enhanced crop establishment leading to more marketable yield.
• It has outstanding disease control results in perfect skin finish and optimum size & shape of potatoes of better quality.

Emesto Prime Usage & Crops

• Recommended Crops: Potato
• Target pest/disease: Black scruf (Rhizoctonia solani).
• Dosage: 83 ml/ 100 L of water
• Method of Application: Seed treatment. 800 kg seed tubers of potato are dipped in the solutions of fungicide for 10 mins. Tubers after treatment are dried in shade and then sown.