Capcadis - Thiamethoxam 75% w/w SG - Syngenta

Why Choose This Product? Key Benefits

• 🌱Systemic insect control: Capcadis is a systemic thiamethoxam formulation. Its labelled uses address both soil-associated pests and specified sucking pests, with the delivery method chosen for each crop rather than assuming that every insecticide must be sprayed on leaves.
  
• 🪵Termite treatment in two field crops: The recommendation includes termites in groundnut and sugarcane. Sugarcane also includes early shoot borer. This provides a crop-specific use at planting or early crop development, not a household or building termite-control treatment.
  
• 🌾A defined rice carrier method: The rice programme uses a measured product solution distributed with sand. This gives a clearly specified alternative delivery method for green leaf hopper and brown plant hopper in transplanted rice; the small preparation-water quantity is not a foliar spray volume.
  
• 🌿Early cotton sucking-pest use: Cotton has a labelled soil-drench programme for jassids and thrips at 20–30 days after sowing. Water is specified per plant, which makes correct plant coverage a practical part of the treatment rather than an assumed fixed acre spray volume.
  
• ⚖️Concentrated granules measured by weight: The 75% SG formulation allows the labelled product quantities to be weighed in grams before mixing. Accurate weighing matters: its dose must not be copied from a lower-strength thiamethoxam product or measured as if it were a liquid.
  

Technical Specifications

How It Works: Mode of Action

Thiamethoxam belongs to IRAC Group 4A. It affects nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the insect nervous system. Capcadis is described as systemic, but the correct crop-specific method and timing remain necessary for that action to be useful.

1. Place the product by the labelled route: Use soil drenching in groundnut, sugarcane and cotton. In rice, prepare the measured solution and mix it with the specified sand carrier for broadcasting. Do not substitute a leaf spray for either route.
   
2. Act within susceptible insects: Thiamethoxam acts as a competitive modulator of insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. This interferes with normal nerve signalling in susceptible target pests.
   
3. Control the specified infestation: The nervous-system disruption leads to control of the listed crop pests. Keep scouting, follow the one-application limit and use other appropriately registered modes of action when later management is needed.
   

Use Capcadis as part of integrated pest management and rotate to approved products with a different mode of action when appropriate. Another thiamethoxam brand remains IRAC Group 4A. Do not reduce the labelled rate or improvise a repeat programme to manage suspected resistance.

Target Crops & Pests

Use the correct crop-and-pest pair together with the specific application method, timing and waiting period.

Groundnut, sugarcane and cotton use soil drenching. Rice uses a prepared sand-carrier application. A label for the same active ingredient in another formulation is not a substitute for these directions.

Dosage & Application Guide

The acre figures below are approximate conversions of the original hectare recommendations. Measure the treated area accurately and retain the original hectare rates for sprayer calibration.

Dosage per Acre, Litre, & Pre-Harvest Interval (PHI)

One application only: groundnut at 15–30 days after sowing; sugarcane at planting; rice at 20 days after transplanting; cotton at 20–30 days after sowing.

Rice requires 20 kg sand/ha, approximately 8.09 kg/acre, as the carrier. The 500 ml water/ha shown above is for making the solution to mix with that sand, not for spraying the rice canopy.

*Cotton water: the leaflet specifies 50–100 ml per plant for soil drenching, not a fixed litre-per-acre total. Use that plant-based water guidance with the labelled product dose per area; no total acre water figure is invented here.

*No independent gram-per-litre or per-tank concentration is supplied. Do not create a universal concentration from the area rates, water ranges or the unusually small rice preparation-water quantity.

PHI is counted from the application to harvest: 57 days for groundnut, 230 for sugarcane, 60 for rice and 109 for cotton. No separate numerical re-entry interval is established here; follow the supplied pack.

How to Apply: Best Practices

• Choose the correct crop programme: Identify the target pest and check the crop’s timing before preparing the mixture. The leaflet specifies one application for each crop, so these are not open-ended repeated drenching instructions.
  
• Weigh the formulated granules: Use the formulation quantity in grams, not the active-ingredient weight. The listed percentage describes product strength; do not calculate a substitute rate or copy directions from thiamethoxam 25% WG.
  
• Drench groundnut and sugarcane soil: Mix the required product into a small quantity of water, add the remainder with thorough agitation and apply as a soil drench. Use 500–1000 L water/ha, approximately 202–405 L/acre, with the relevant crop’s dose and timing.
  
• Use the cotton plant-based water guidance: Prepare the required quantity for the area and use 50–100 ml water per plant as directed for soil drenching. Cotton’s water entry is not a foliar spray recommendation and should not be replaced with the groundnut water range.
  
• Prepare and broadcast the rice carrier: For each hectare, dissolve 150 g product in 500 ml water, mix with 20 kg sand and broadcast at 20 days after transplanting. The corresponding acre quantities are approximately 60.7 g product, 0.202 L water and 8.09 kg sand. Keep these quantities together and do not use the carrier-preparation solution as a spray concentrate.
  
• Protect honeybees and flowering vegetation: Do not apply during crop flowering, when bees are actively foraging, or from 5 days before flowering through 5 days after flowering. Avoid drift to flowering crops, weeds and hedges, and do not apply when substantial aphid honeydew is present in the treatment area. Prevent off-crop air or dust contamination.
  
• Handle and clean up safely: Wear gloves, protective clothing, mask, goggles and boots. Avoid contact and inhalation, and never use cooking utensils or clear a nozzle by mouth. Do not store unused prepared solution. Clean equipment after use without allowing product, leftovers or washings into ponds, rivers, drains or other waterways.
  

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