THE NEW insecticide, Movento from Bayer, is aimed at maintaining crop quality and reducing crop rejection rates.

Aimed at broad-spectrum control of sucking pests on brassicas and lettuces, Bayer’s horticultural development manager, Dr Richard Meredith, said it could make the difference between Grade 1 quality and rejection.

It has a completely new insecticidal characteristic – two-way systemicity.

It is approved on brussels sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli/calabrese and cabbage, to control mealy cabbage aphid, peach–potato aphid and whitefly. On outdoor and protected lettuce it is approved to control currant-lettuce, peach-potato and lettuce root aphids.

Unlike other insecticides, that move within the leaf, Movento moves up and down the plant to protect new growth and targets hidden pests from heart leaves to roots.