Grain production in Hungary and the Carpathian basin is changing: the weight of crops in the crop rotation is lower, the intensity of production is growing, and the average yield is increasing.

To remain competitive in a changing market environment, we need to redefine the elements of our growing technology and, if necessary, update it. For more than 40 years since the introduction of triadimefon as one of the first active components of triazole, Bayer has focused its research program on many new antifungal agents and has become a key component of plant protection in the world (e.g. tebuconazole, prothioconazole, etc.). The development did not stop, because a new class of drugs replaced the expired drugs, and in the future they will become the basis of cereal fungicides.

The representative of these fungicidal active substances in Bayer was bixafen, pyrazolecarboxamide, which since 2011 has received permission under the name Zantara in many European countries, including Hungary in 2012, in combination with tebuconazole.

The mode of action of bixafen in the mitochondrial respiratory chain of fungi is the so-called Complex II, based on the inhibition of the enzyme succinate dehydrogenase. This differs from the mode of action of both azoles and strobilurins, which makes bixafen an excellent way to combat resistance.

Bixafen is effective against all major leaf diseases.

It is much more effective than modern active ingredients in wheat against a septic spot and red rust, as well as in barley against a clean spot, rhinosphoria and even Ramulari disease.

• During the growing season of 2020, American farmers will have a new fungicide for many crops, including corn and soy.
• Agrarians of Odessa and Nikolaev regions began harvesting grain crops. Barley is threshed in the Saratsky district of the Odessa region, according to a statement by the chief agronomist of the Balkans peasant farm Anatoly Volkanov.
• Earlier we wrote that the world's largest chemical concern BASF will produce Revysol® fungicides in Europe