Antracol - Propineb 70% WP - Bayer

Why Choose This Product? Key Benefits

• 🛡️  Preventive surface protection: Contact action helps protect susceptible crop surfaces against the specified diseases when applied correctly within the permitted programme.
  
• 🌾  Crop-specific disease coverage: The listed uses include selected diseases of fruit, vegetable, rice and cotton crops, allowing selection by the actual crop and diagnosis.
  
• 💧  Dispersible powder formulation: The fine-particle wettable powder forms a spray suspension when prepared as directed. Correct mixing and agitation help maintain an even suspension; it is not a fully soluble powder.
  

Technical Specifications

How It Works: Mode of Action

1. Protects the treated surface: Contact action works on the plant surfaces reached by the permitted spray. Uniform coverage is important; this is not two-way systemic movement.
   
2. Disrupts fungal metabolism: Propineb interferes with several chemical processes needed by susceptible fungi for normal growth and survival, rather than acting at one single target site.
   
3. Restricts disease development: Preventive protection helps limit the development of susceptible fungal disease on treated crop tissue. It does not rebuild tissue already damaged.
   

FRAC Group M03 identifies this multi-site activity. Resistance risk is generally low, but resistance is not impossible and correct timing and coverage still matter. Combine suitable fungicide choices with scouting, field hygiene and other crop-specific disease-management measures. Zinc associated with the product does not establish a fertiliser replacement or a nutrient-dose programme.

Target Crops & Diseases

Use only the following crop–disease pairing permitted by the supplied current Indian Antracol pack.

Identify the disease before selection. For example, the grape use is downy mildew, not every grape rot or mildew. Do not transfer a use from another propineb formulation or an overseas Antracol WG label.

Dosage & Application Guide

Concentration and harvest references: complete directions still required

The following crop-linked quantities and harvest restrictions are references, not a complete spray programme. Before measuring or applying, the supplied current pack must confirm the crop, disease, application method, first-treatment stage, equipment, repeat limits and all restrictions together. Do not build a programme by combining separate figures.

Apple scab: 300 g per 100 L water (0.30%), with water determined by tree size and plant-protection equipment; keep at least 30 days from the final application to harvest. Pomegranate leaf and fruit spots: the same 300 g per 100 L water (0.30%) basis and tree-size/equipment water requirement, with a 10-day harvest interval.

Potato early and late blight: 300 g per 100 L water (0.30%), with water determined by crop stage and equipment; harvest interval 15 days. Tomato buckeye rot: the same concentration and crop-stage/equipment water basis, with a 10-day harvest interval. Grapes downy mildew: the same concentration and crop-stage/equipment water basis, with a 40-day harvest interval.

Cotton Alternaria leaf spot: product reference 1,250–1,500 g/ha, approximately 505.86–607.03 g/acre; water reference 500 L/ha, approximately 202.34 L/acre; harvest interval 27 days. Acre figures are approximate area equivalents, not a per-litre or tank recipe. These figures do not supply the missing first-treatment and complete operational directions.

The pre-harvest interval is the minimum time from the final application to harvest. Repeat-treatment and worker re-entry intervals are separate. Follow any stricter supplied-pack restriction. A concentration of 300 g per 100 L is not automatically 600 g per acre: canopy size, crop stage and equipment affect the water required.

For chilli dieback and rice brown or narrow leaf spots, obtain the complete supplied-pack directions before treatment; no numerical programme is provided here. Missing information does not mean no water or no harvest restriction. Do not apply cotton’s 27-day harvest interval to rice. No universal grams-per-litre or tank recipe is supplied.

How to Apply: Best Practices

• Confirm identity and diagnosis: Match Bayer Antracol and Propineb 70% WP, the crop and the exact disease. Use the pack’s preventive timing rather than waiting for damage that cannot be repaired.
  
• Calibrate for the correct basis: For concentration-based uses, preserve the grams-per-water basis and match coverage water to the canopy. For area-based uses, calibrate product and water to the measured area. Avoid runoff; do not substitute a fixed acre rate for every crop.
  
• Handle and suspend the powder carefully: Wear the required protective equipment during measuring, mixing, application and cleanup. Avoid generating or inhaling dust. Follow the pack’s mixing sequence and agitation instructions, and do not mix with bare hands.
  
• Protect surrounding areas: Avoid spray drift and prevent runoff and washings from reaching ponds, streams, aquaculture or fish-rearing areas. Do not apply near water bodies, aquaculture or pisciculture areas contrary to the product’s aquatic restrictions. Follow the pack’s equipment and weather precautions; no fixed rainfast interval is implied.
  
• Check every proposed mixture: Do not combine with a pesticide, fertiliser or micronutrient unless both current labels permit the exact crop, method and combination. A compatibility test alone cannot establish permission or crop safety.
  
• Keep a treatment record: Record the crop, field, disease, date, treated area and product quantity, then plan harvest and worker entry using their separate restrictions.
  

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