Agricultural adjuvant enhance crops low surface tension, spreading, permeability and emulsification dispersion.
Pest management in agriculture is perhaps the most important task that crop producers worldwide must undertake every year. To accomplish this task, crop producers must make important decisions that focus on eliminating the pest without causing harm to the crop, humans, non-targeted species, and the environment.
To control pests, therefore, it is most ideal for a agrochemicals to be retained on the pest long enough to penetrate the protective surface layers. Often, there are barriers that must be overcome for a agrochemicals to do its job.
For example:
- In plants, a waxy cuticle is a protective layer that covers leaves and prevents substances from easy entry into the inner parts.
- In insects, an impervious protective exoskeleton prevents substances from gaining easy entry into the inner parts.
To enhance agrochemicals penetration of the outer surfaces of pests, adjuvants are used as a partner chemical in pesticide spray application. The purpose of the adjuvant is to enhance agrochemicals effectiveness.
Adjuvants which improve wetness, modify the rate of evaporation, improve the weather ability of spray deposits, and enhance penetration and translocation of agrochemicals, e.g., silicone adjuvants, are of particular importance.
Adjuvants enhance the activity of agrochemicals in a variety of ways including:
- Wetting of pest
- Modifying the rate of evaporation of spray
- Improving the weatherability of spray deposits
- Enhancing penetration and translocation of agrochemicals
- Adjusting pH of spray solutions and deposits
- Improving uniformity of spray deposit
- Enabling the compatibility of mixtures
- Ensuring safety of the crop
- Reducing drift
Agricultural silicone mainly consists of ethoxy modified trisiloxane, a polyether-modified specialty silicone surfactant.
Performance
It has low surface tension, spreading, permeability and emulsification dispersion.
Main Characteristics:
Super spread ability, excellent permeability, high internal absorption and conductivity, rainwater resistance, easy mixing, high safety and stability.
Safety and stability:
- Enhance the adhesion of liquid, improve the utilization rate of agrochemicals.
- Excellent wetting and spreading, increasing the coverage and improving the efficacy of agrochemicalss.
- Promote the penetration of endosorption-type chemicals through the stomata, and improve the resistance to rainfall washout.
- Reduce spraying volume, save water, labor and time.
- Reduce agrochemicalsresidue, reduce agrochemicalsloss.
Scope of use:
Agricultural silicone additives can be added to the spray mixture of insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, foliar fertilizers, plant growth regulators and/or bioagrochemicals, especially suitable for endosorption-type agents.
Physical and chemical data:
Surface tension mN/m:21.0～24.0
Application:
It can be used as spray improver, foliar absorption aid and activator.
