12 November 2026, New Delhi, IN: India’s Registration Committee (RC), the decision-making body of the Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee (CIB&RC), has approved 14 crop protection and household pest control products at its 477th meeting. Weed control mixtures for rice, wheat and sugarcane make up the largest share. The meeting was chaired by Agriculture Commissioner Dr. P. K. Singh at Krishi Bhavan in New Delhi. It granted registrations to 11 companies, including Bayer CropScience, Syngenta India, Rallis India, Coromandel International and Sumitomo Chemical India.
All approvals were made under Section 9(3) of the Insecticides Act, 1968, the route for products being registered in a given form for the first time in India. Most cover domestic manufacture of new combination formulations. A smaller group covers imports or a switch from importing a technical ingredient to making it in India.
Willowood Industries received approval to manufacture fluxametamide technical (minimum 93.70% purity) in India rather than import it. Fluxametamide is an isoxazoline-class insecticide. The registration carries a provisional two-year shelf life. Willowood must file at least 30 months of real-time storage stability data, in the actual container of sale, within two and a half years of its application. If it does not, the certificate will be deemed cancelled.
Herbicide combinations lead the list
Rice growers get two new options for transplanted paddy. Coromandel International’s three-way wettable powder combines bispyribac sodium 2%, penoxsulam 2% and 2,4-D sodium salt 50%. It targets barnyard grass (Echinochloa colona), sedges such as Cyperus iria and Cyperus difformis, and broadleaf weeds including Monochoria vaginalis and Eclipta alba. Biostadt India’s emulsifiable concentrate of penoxsulam 2% and pyribenzoxim 3% covers a similar weed spectrum. Both carry warnings about toxicity to fish and aquatic organisms.
In wheat, Rallis India won approval for an oil dispersion of metsulfuron methyl 0.4%, clodinafop-propargyl 6% and metribuzin 21%. It targets Phalaris minor (littleseed canary grass), the most damaging grass weed in north India’s wheat belt, along with broadleaf weeds such as Chenopodium album. The product has a shorter 18-month shelf life. Its label must warn of toxicity to fish, honeybees and earthworms. Bayer CropScience received clearance for an aclonifen 40.65% and diflufenican 8.13% suspension concentrate, also aimed at Phalaris minor and broadleaf weeds in wheat.
Seedlings India’s three-way mix of ametryn 40%, 2,4-D sodium salt 30% and halosulfuron methyl 1.33% was approved for sugarcane. It covers more than a dozen weeds, including nutgrass (Cyperus rotundus) and Parthenium. It carries the same provisional shelf life and storage-data condition as the Willowood technical.
Insecticide and fungicide approvals focus on high-value crops. Syngenta India secured two registrations. The first is an oxathiapiprolin and mandipropamid suspension concentrate for downy mildew in grapes. The second is a sedaxane and fludioxonil seed treatment for black scurf (Rhizoctonia solani) in potato. Sumitomo Chemical India’s chlorantraniliprole 4% and fenpropathrin 10% suspo-emulsion was cleared for three crops: stem borer and leaf folder in rice; semilooper, pod borer, girdle beetle and stem fly in soybean; and shoot and fruit borer, red spider mites and whitefly in brinjal. Approval is subject to the fixing of maximum residue limits (MRLs).
Willowood Chemicals received approval for a three-way suspo-emulsion of flonicamid 15%, chlorantraniliprole 12% and lambda-cyhalothrin 5%. It is restricted to brinjal and is also subject to MRL fixation. Outside agriculture, Godrej Consumer Products won registration for a renofluthrin 0.75% household product against three mosquito species: Anopheles stephensi, Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus.
Import approvals carry conditions
Bayer’s two import-related cases were approved subject to clarification. The first is a flufenacet 24% and metribuzin 17.5% water-dispersible granule for soybean, potato and tomato. The second is a propineb 70% formulation for brown spot and leaf blast in rice. The committee found a mismatch in the named source of import. Bayer’s application forms and import permits list Schirm GmbH for the flufenacet product and Bayer AG for propineb. The supporting documents, however, name Bayer CropScience Deutschland GmbH. The committee also noted that the source country had stated no validity period for the import source.
Under a rule adopted at the 469th RC meeting, Bayer must also submit geotagging records of the manufacturer and the manufacturing site. The flufenacet mixture is further subject to MRL fixation in all three crops.
Tropical Agrosystem (India) received approval to import 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) 2% tablets for post-harvest treatment of apples, sourced from AgroFresh Inc. in Philadelphia. The approval also depends on geotagging documents. The label must state that the product may be applied only by recognised pest control operators under the Insecticides Rules, 1971.
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