Eco-friendly Nematicide: Silver Hydrogen Peroxide

Around three-fifth of the world population solely depends on one major sector for their livelihood and survival and that is Agriculture. This sector involves each and every living organism (macroscopic and microscopic) directly or indirectly. Therefore, a major planning and projection should be invested in this sector in order to provide protection to agricultural components.

Nematodes, Nematicides, Nematocides, Pesticides, these terms are often heard in agricultural sectors. But what are these? Why are these terms frequently heard in agro industries?

Nematicides are the categorized chemicals that helps in pest control or rather it can be termed as pesticides that eradicates nematodes. Nematodes are parasitic micro-organisms that feed on living organisms. Prime habitats of soil or water, these micro-organisms can hugely effect farmlands, irrigational sectors if not controlled meticulously. Nematicides are considered as broad spectrum chemicals that find most of its application as insecticides and pesticides whose primary function is to kill all the weeds and microscopic organisms, preventing any kind of damage to crops and vegetation.

The most challenging part in formulating a pesticide is that it should effectively perform its concerned activity without causing any harm to the application sector or have just a minimal impact on application components. The existence of nematodes depends upon several factors like soil, moisture, surrounding temperature, etc. Some nematodes are often known to survive by feeding on plant roots. These plant parasites absorb all the useful nutrients from the root system to such an extent that the process harms the internal suction power of the same. Due to this internal damage, the roots are unable to absorb the required nutrients and water from the soil resulting in unprecedented crop loss. It has been studied by global experts that about one-tenth of the total crops were damaged in the last decade due to these undesirable parasites resulting in huge man power, energy and monetary loss. After looking through all these adverse effects, one can understand the requirement of prime concern and priority needed to be given in this part of world. One of the best way to prevent the occurrences of such damages is to use suitable non-toxic soil fumigant which will eradicate these weeds as well as help in proper and uninterrupted growth of the crops and vegetation.

Silver Hydrogen Peroxide works as an eco-friendly pesticide or soil fumigant which provides high efficacy in killing harmful bacteria, fungi and viruses from almost all types of soil and crops without leaving any kind of toxic residues on application areas. Basically what happens is, hydrogen peroxide being highly volatile, releases free - OH radicals on contact with microorganisms. Once the microorganism is killed, the silver quickly stabilizes the peroxide and store its biocidal activity for further use without allowing it to degrade. The chemical alliance of silver and hydrogen peroxide manifests excellent anti-bacterial, anti-fungal properties and effectively eradicates harmful weeds and micro-organism from the soil and also prevents further reproduction of those parasites as the silver present in the compound alters the DNA structure of those micro-organism, inhibiting any kind of further reproduction.

Benefits that of application of Silver Hydrogen Peroxide:

• Destroy all fungal, bacterial presence
• Inhibits cell reproduction of the micro-organisms
• Biodegradable
• Enhances Soil Life
• Removes nematodes
• Enhances suction ability of the roots of the plant

CHEMTEX SPECIALITY LIMITED manufactures Silver Hydrogen Peroxide under the trade name Alstasan Silvox to use as a multi-purpose, highly effective sanitizer for use in various applications found in food processing, F&B, brewery, dairy, agro, hospitals, pharma, fisheries, RO, poultry, potable water, swimming pool, AC ducts, effluent detoxification, and other process industries.

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