Crop Aid and Adjuvant Products
NICHINO Group’s Crop Aid and Adjuvant Product Initiatives
NICHINO Group is expanding its business scope to not only Crop Protection Products but also the development of Crop Aid Products (Biostimulants and other products) as part of its efforts in new fields.In order to meet the needs of global society, we will continue to contribute to food and agriculture around the world through diverse and proactive business development.
Nihon Nohyaku
Biostimulants
“Cross Value ®” is a biostimulant product containing Bacillus licheniformis DSM5749 and Bacillus subtilis DSM5750, contributes to crop production by enhancing its tolerance against abiotic stress with the effect of the microorganisms. Based on the field trial results in Japan which we observed yield increase of strawberries and cucumbers and enhancement of root development of asparagus mother trees, we are confident that Cross Value® meets the expectation of growers for yield increase and quality improvement.
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Adjuvants *
*Check with country regulatory agency to determine registration status BEFORE useAdjuvants are specialist spray additives that improve the performance and reliability of crop protection products. They help active ingredients work more effectively in the tank, during application, and on the target by improving spray stability, coverage, retention, penetration, and uptake. By addressing challenges such as poor water quality, drift, evaporation, and run off, adjuvants maximize spray efficiency, protect valuable chemistry, and help deliver consistent results in real world field conditions.
BackRow Max is an advanced activator adjuvant designed to elevate residual herbicide performance under the most challenging environmental and application conditions. Developed from the proven technology of the original BackRow, this enhanced formulation provides cleaner handling, improved environmental credentials, and superior weed control in early-season programs. By optimizing droplet behavior and herbicide placement, BackRow Max helps growers achieve consistent control of yield robbing weeds.
When to use BackRow Max: It is recommended with all pre -and peri-emergence herbicides to maximize early activity. It helps reduce drift, improve soil coverage, and enhance retention in dry or wet soil conditions. It is also valuable when rain is forecast or where crop safety and reduced leaching are a priority.
Key benefits: BackRow Max improves herbicide accuracy, optimises deposition in the weed zone, and supports stronger residual activity. It ensures maximum herbicide efficiency while reducing environmental losses—providing growers with greater reliability, flexibility, and safety in early weed control strategies.
Kantor is a versatile, one can activator adjuvant that enhances the performance of crop protection sprays by overcoming physical and chemical limitations in the spray tank and during application. It provides unmatched reliability in challenging conditions—whether cold water, complex tank mixes, or sensitive neighboring crops. Kantor improves mixing, stabilizes active ingredients, boosts coverage, and accelerates penetration into plant tissues.
When to use Kantor: Ideal for complex tank mixes, cool water conditions, high pH water, and drift sensitive situations. It enhances herbicide, fungicide, PGR, and curative spray performance across a wide range of crops. It is especially valuable in OSR disease sprays, wheat T1/T2 applications, flowering sprays, bentazone programs, and low-water-volume situations.
Key benefits: Kantor maximizes compatibility, coverage, uptake, and biological performance of crop protection products. It improves penetration, speeds activation of key ingredients, enhances PGR uptake, and provides essential drift management—ensuring dependable, high-quality results across diverse spray programs.
Toil is a 95% methylated rapeseed oil adjuvant designed to enhance the performance of herbicides and insecticides by improving droplet spread and reducing drift. Where effective coverage is essential for optimal activity, Toil ensures more of the spray reaches and adheres to the target surface, improving uptake and consistency of control.
When to use Toil: It is recommended wherever an adjuvant oil is advised on the crop protection label, including post-emergence sugar beet herbicides. Toil also enhances insecticide performance in cereals, oilseed rape, and sugar beet by improving coverage and ensuring more uniform distribution.
Key benefits: Toil provides a natural alternative to mineral and vegetable oils, offering excellent spreading and drift reduction properties. It supports improved herbicide and insecticide efficacy, strengthens coverage on difficult targets, and helps achieve more reliable control in a range of conditions.
Sorrento is a next generation activator adjuvant designed to enhance the coverage, uptake, and overall performance of post emergence herbicides. Its advanced formulation improves herbicide penetration into leaf tissue—particularly on waxy, hairy, or otherwise difficult-to-wet weeds—leading to faster kill and higher control levels. Suitable across a wide range of crops, Sorrento ensures more consistent results even where weeds are large, upright, or established.
When to use Sorrento: Ideal for challenging weed species with waxy cuticles or dense hairs. Recommended when using high water volumes, drift reducing nozzles, or herbicides with moderate to high water solubility.
Key benefits: Sorrento delivers improved retention, superior leaf coverage, and enhanced active ingredient uptake. Easy to use—simply add to the tank first—it provides fast, consistent weed control and optimises the performance of modern post emergence herbicide programs.
Crusade is a specialist adjuvant developed to maximize the performance of all potato blight fungicides by reducing spray drift and ensuring complete canopy coverage. As potato blight pressure intensifies and fungicide resistance challenges increase, achieving uniform spray distribution has never been more essential. Crusade helps growers maintain timely applications even in drift limited conditions while enhancing protection across the entire crop.
When to use Crusade: Use throughout the blight program to minimise drift, improve coverage, and support robust resistance management. It is particularly valuable in high risk periods or where achieving on time spraying is difficult due to weather or drift reduction requirements.
How it works: Crusade reduces the production of fine droplets (<100 microns) that are most prone to drift. It generates droplets better suited for penetrating both upper and lower canopy layers while improving spray angle uniformity at the nozzle.
Key benefits: More consistent fungicide delivery, reduced scattered infection, improved canopy protection, and maximized efficacy of blight chemistry.
Soil Conditioner
Soil conditioners improve the physical structure and function of soil, creating a better environment for roots, water, air, and soil biology. By reducing compaction and surface sealing and improving aggregation and porosity, they enhance infiltration, moisture retention, and root development. Acting on the soil rather than feeding the crop, soil conditioners support resilient cropping systems and long term soil health.
Agrigate is a high performance soil conditioner developed to tackle the challenges of compaction, poor soil structure, and weak water movement through the soil profile. By improving the soil’s physical condition, Agrigate supports better root development, stronger emergence, and more even crop growth. It is particularly valuable in fields where soil structure has deteriorated, restricting nutrient and water access and ultimately limiting yield potential.
When to use AgriGate: It is ideal where crops show slow or uneven emergence, shallow rooting caused by compaction, restricted nutrient uptake, or reduced yield due to poor soil health. For best results, apply to moist soils immediately before or after drilling but before crop emergence.
Key benefits: Agrigate enhances soil structure, enabling water, nutrients, and roots to move deeper into the profile. This leads to improved crop establishment, stronger growth, and more resilient performance. Additional value comes from increased earthworm activity and enhanced root length density, allowing crops to access deeper moisture and nutrients for higher yield and crop health.
Biostimulant
Biostimulants are natural substances or microorganisms that stimulate a plant’s own processes to improve growth, resilience, and efficiency. Applied to seeds, plants, or soil, they enhance rooting, nutrient uptake, and stress tolerance, helping crops make better use of available resources and perform more consistently within modern, sustainable farming systems.
Newton is a 100% organic, plant sourced biostimulant seed treatment that enhances early vigour, rooting strength, and resilience in both conventional and organic crops. By stimulating strong emergence and early root development, Newton helps crops withstand environmental stress and access nutrients more effectively throughout establishment. Trials demonstrate significant improvements in emergence speed, rooting depth, and overall plant health.
When to use Newton: Ideal for supporting germination in cool conditions, improving emergence in challenging soils, stimulating early root and shoot development, and enhancing tolerance to drought and other abiotic stresses. Suitable for all crops where early vigour is essential.
Key benefits: Newton consistently boosts yield—showing increases of 5% in winter cereals and 10% in spring cereals versus untreated seed. It strengthens plant resilience, improves nutrient uptake, and secures early growth, making it a natural, highly effective addition to modern seed treatment programs.
