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Controlling blight without mancozeb: 6 potential solutions >More in
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While mancozeb appears to have a stay of execution for at least this season, just how much product will be available for blight control in potatoes remains unclear.
Some mancozeb-containing products won’t be available, including Invader from BASF and Syngenta’s Fubol Gold, agronomists believe, and how long stocks will last of those that are still being manufactured is uncertain.
That means while most potato agronomists hope to be able to recommend mancozeb for another season, attention is turning to how to replace it, if, or perhaps more likely when, the Chemicals Regulation Division decides to endorse the decision made late last year by European regulators for non-approval.
Mancozeb: Why the potato industry must prepare for its loss >More in
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Despite its recent stay of execution, there is little hope for sustained use of multisite fungicide mancozeb beyond the 2023 growing season, and potato growers are urged to start planning how they will effectively manage disease and fungicide resistance without it.
Late last year, there was a chance that if the EU hadn’t passed the recommended withdrawal of mancozeb into law by end of the Brexit transition period, British growers would gain a reprieve for the 60-year-old fungicide.
And that is exactly what happened on 1 January, when some pesticides under review by the EU were automatically given a three-year approval extension.