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Dhanuka Agritech introduces herbicide for sugarcane

farmers

Leading agrochemical company,
Dhanuka Agritech Ltd., has introduced
a new herbicide ‘Tizom’ that will help
farmers in controlling weeds in sugar-
cane crop and enhance farm profi tabi-
lity from sugarcane cultivation.

Introduced in collaboration with
Japan’s Nissan Chemical Corporation,
‘Tizom’ features two key active ingre-
dients – Halosulfuron methyl 6% and
Metribuzin 50% WG. It provides an
effective solution for controlling a wide
range of weeds, including narrow leaf
weeds, broadleaf weeds and Cyperus “Tizom will further strengthen our Moreover, it offers prolonged weed
rotundus, and aids in increasing the robust sugarcane portfolio and will be control, allowing farmers to enjoy a
productivity of sugarcane crop. extremely helpful to sugarcane farmers,” weed-free environment for an extended
Mr. Rahul Dhanuka, Joint Managing duration.
Director, Dhanuka Agritech said. “We
have aggressive growth plans in the “The selectiveness is crucial for
current fi nancial year and we plan to protecting the sugarcane plants from
introduce a slew of products lined up weeds and ensuring optimal growth
during the remainder of the current and yield,” emphasised Mr. Manoj
fi scal year,” he added. Varshney, National Marketing Head,
Dhanuka Agritech, said.
One of the major advantages of
‘Tizom’ is that it targets and eliminates The company has introduced ‘Tizom’
weeds while leaving sugarcane crops in Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil
unharmed, the company informed. Nadu, and will soon tap other States too.

UP set to become top ethanol producer state in the country

Uttar Pradesh’s ethanol production of the industry in the state has crossed economy. “The State Government is
capacity is currently estimated at 2-bil- Rs. 12,000-crore. The state’s ethanol capa- making efforts to integrate the sugar-
lion litres per year which is almost eight city is expected to reach 2.25-billion litres cane crop with an attractive ethanol
times more than the capacity of 240- per annum in few years. This sector has value chain to provide remunerative
million litres per year fi ve years back, witnessed unprecedented support from prices to farmers and double their
said Mr. Laxmi Narayan Chaudhary, the the industry in terms of investment in income,” he said. Mr. Prabhu Singh,
State’s Minister for Sugarcane Deve- plants and machinery, technology and Cane Commissioner, spoke about UP
lopment and Sugar Industry at the Con- total cultivation area in the last six Bio Energy Policy which was released
federation of Indian Industry’s (CII’s) years,” he said. in September last year, with the objec-
Sugartech conference recently. The tive of encouraging compressed biogas
minister said that with this growth in capa- Chief Secretary Mr. D. S. Mishra plants, bio-diesel production plants and
city, UP is set to become the top etha- spoke about the importance of the sugar- bio-coal production plants based on
nol producer in the country. “The size cane sector in making UP a $1-trillion bioenergy waste.

Chemical Weekly September 26, 2023 147

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