Sumitomo Expands Plantation Solutions Business

Sumitomo Chemical will expand and enhance its plantation solutions business in full swing by integrating businesses of its group companies involving agriculture-related supplies for plantations of bananas, oil palm and other crops.

Sumitomo said the group-wide global undertaking commences with participation in an international conference on banana due to begin on April 19 in Miami, the United States where Sumitomo Chemical Group companies will present their Plantation Solutions platform.

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At the international conference in Miami, Sumitomo Chemical will also introduce its Powmyl fungicide for controlling Black Sigatoka, a serious disease in banana crops. As far as Powmyl is concerned, the company has already launched it in the Philippines and is now working on obtaining registration in Latin America and elsewhere in the world. The group will continue to strengthen its Plantation Solutions business by developing a diverse range of innovative products that will best meet customer needs.

Many of Sumitomo’s products and services that are suited to plantations are already available, and the company, in close cooperation with other group companies, has decided to offer them as a product line-up of solutions to plantations of bananas, oil palm, pineapples and sugarcane.

“The company believes that these plantation solutions will importantly contribute to enhancing work efficiency and increasing crop productivity through promoting water and fertilizer management, weed, disease and insect control, and harvesting management,” it said.

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Current product lineup of the Group’s Plantation Solutions

  • Sumitomo Chemical (Japan): Plant protection chemicals
  • Sumika Agrotech (Japan): Coated fertilizer, irrigation products
  • Valent BioSciences (the United States): Biorational plant protection and enhancement products
  • Pace International (the United States): Post-harvest solutions
  • Mycorrhizal Applications (the United States): Rhizosphere enhancement products (mycorrhizal fungal inoculum)
  • McLaughlin Gormley King Company (the United States): Insecticides containing natural pyrethrin

Source: Sumitomo Chemical

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