BASF’s Tomato Fungicide Cleared by EPA

Posted by |15 July 2013

BASF announced it has received U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approval of Pageant Intrinsic brand fungicide for use on greenhouse-grown tomatoes for commercial production, and for tomato transplants grown in greenhouses, shadehouses and lathhouses for the home consumer market.

Pageant Intrinsic brand fungicide provide broad-spectrum disease control, and research has proven it provides plant health benefits such as enhanced stress tolerance and increased efficiency of plant processes.

The new, approved uses will provide growers and consumers who transplant tomatoes grown in greenhouses, shadehouses, and lathhouses with protection from time of seedling emergence to shipping, including protection from seedling diseases and against stresses such as cold, heat, drought and shipping.

“The disease control and plant health benefits of Pageant Intrinsic brand fungicide will be a boon for growers who produce tomatoes,” said Kathie Kalmowitz, market development specialist, BASF. “We’re pleased to provide the industry’s broadest spectrum fungicide to fight troublesome diseases such as Botrytis cinera.”

For more information, visit IntrinsicPlantHealth.com or BetterPlants.basf.us.