Exponus - Broflanilide 300 g/L SC - BASF

Why Choose This Product? Key Benefits

• 🐛  Chewing-pest control: Targets listed borers, caterpillars and semiloopers in the crop programmes below.
  
• 🎯  Selected thrips activity: Offers a crop-specific option for selected thrips; it is not a blanket sucking-pest treatment.
  
• ⚡  Rapid pest control: BASF describes quick activity against susceptible target insects.
  
• 🍃  Translaminar movement: Broflanilide can move through treated leaves; it is not a whole-plant systemic insecticide.
  

Technical Specifications

How It Works: Mode of Action

Broflanilide acts on GABA-gated chloride channels in susceptible insects. Its activity is distinct from the ryanodine-receptor insecticides in Group 28.

1. GABA-channel action: Broflanilide interferes with GABA-controlled channels in the insect’s nervous system.
   
2. Inhibitory signals disrupted: This disrupts the nerve signals that normally keep excessive activity in check.
   
3. Nervous-system overexcitation: The imbalance overexcites the insect’s nervous system, leading to incapacitation and control.
   

Use mode-of-action windows to avoid exposing consecutive pest generations to Group 30. Within a window, applications may target a single pest generation; the next window should use an effective, label-approved different group. Window length follows one generation of the target pest, not a fixed number of days, and total Group 30 exposure should not exceed 50% of the crop cycle. Integrate other pest-management measures and monitor control. Do not treat resistance management as a guarantee that resistance cannot occur, or these window principles as permission to exceed the crop’s spray limit.

Target Crops & Pests

The crop table follows BASF India’s named programmes. Thrips suppression in brinjal should not be read as complete control of all thrips species.

Dosage & Application Guide

Soybean and red gram: complete foliar spray directions

Use the soybean row only for gram pod borer, tobacco caterpillar and green semilooper, and the red gram row only for gram pod borer and spotted pod borer. Follow the supplied Indian Exponus pack. Original hectare quantities are retained; acre equivalents are approximate.

For these uses, premix the measured product with a little water and add the remaining water with thorough agitation. Prefer morning or evening, avoid high wind and do not apply within 2 hours of anticipated rain. Observe the 24-hour re-entry interval and a maximum of two sprays, plus any stricter supplied-pack restriction.

Separate crop amount and harvest references

The following acre-based references are separate from the hectare programme above. They do not supply a universal tank recipe. For maize, cabbage, grapes, tomato and brinjal, obtain the supplied pack’s complete application route, equipment, mixing, rain and re-entry instructions before treatment. Do not borrow them from the soybean or red gram directions.

Soybean: The separate acre-based reference is 17 ml product and 200 L water per acre, with 37 days from the final treatment to harvest. Do not treat rounded acre quantities as exact equivalents to every value in the hectare range above.

Red gram: The separate acre-based reference is 17 ml product and 200 L water per acre, with a 25-day harvest interval.

Maize: fall armyworm: 20 ml product and 150–200 L water per acre; retain a 42-day interval from final treatment to harvest.

Cabbage: diamondback moth and tobacco leaf-eating caterpillar: 17 ml product and 150–200 L water per acre; retain a 1-day harvest interval.

Grapes: thrips: 34 ml product and 1,000 L water per acre; retain a 70-day harvest interval. Do not substitute lower vegetable water volumes or shorter harvest intervals.

Tomato: lepidopteran caterpillars: 25 ml product and 200 L water per acre; retain a 1-day harvest interval.

Brinjal: shoot and fruit borer, with thrips suppression: 25 ml product and 200 L water per acre; retain a 1-day harvest interval. Thrips suppression is not a claim of complete control of every thrips species.

Chilli: Obtain the supplied pack’s complete directions for the particular target, including product quantity, water, application method, first crop stage and pest conditions, and harvest restriction before use. Do not use a thrips-specific trigger as a borer recommendation or borrow another crop’s programme.

The pre-harvest interval is the minimum time from final treatment to harvest. Harvest, worker re-entry and repeat-treatment intervals are separate; a missing interval is not zero. Measure the area and use its matching product and water directions. No fixed per-litre or universal spray-tank dose is supplied.

How to Apply: Best Practices

• Soybean: Start with pest incidence; BASF’s programme places the second spray 12–15 days later.
  
• Maize: Start at fall armyworm onset; the second spray is placed 7–10 days after the first.
  
• Cabbage: Apply during active vegetative growth; the programme places the second spray 10–12 days later.
  
• Grapes: The programme places the first spray before bloom and the second at berry setting.
  
• Red gram: Start with pest incidence; the second spray is placed 20–25 days later.
  
• Tomato and brinjal: Tomato: before flower initiation, then at fruit initiation. Brinjal: active vegetative growth, then 7–10 days after the first spray.
  
• Mixing and spraying: For the soybean and red gram programme above, premix the measured amount with a little water, add the rest with thorough agitation and apply to foliage by knapsack sprayer. Chilli treatment requires the complete supplied-pack target-specific directions first.
  
• Conditions and precautions: For the soybean and red gram programme, do not apply within 2 hours of anticipated rain and observe a 24-hour re-entry interval. These restrictions also remain safeguards for any chilli treatment once its complete directions are confirmed. Follow any stricter supplied-pack requirement. Prefer morning or evening; avoid high wind and active bee foraging.
  
• Additional crop methods: For maize, cabbage, grapes, tomato and brinjal, follow the current supplied label for application route, equipment, mixing, rain restrictions and re-entry. The current BASF crop-stage timings above do not supply these missing details.
  
• Programme limits: Do not exceed two sprays for the soybean and red gram programme. The same two-spray ceiling remains a safeguard for chilli once its complete supplied-pack directions are confirmed. Follow any stricter crop-specific pack limit.
  

Only use a mixture or adjuvant when both current labels permit the proposed combination for the crop and method. Do not substitute another brand, formulation or overseas directions. For other crops, do not assume the two-hour rain restriction or any fixed rainfast period; follow their own supplied-pack instructions. Record the crop, field, date and amount, and observe all harvest, worker re-entry and repeat restrictions before the next operation.

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