Uttar Pradesh sugarcane department will serve a notice on DuPont over its “misleading” TV advertisement claiming higher sugarcane yield with the use of its popular insecticide ‘Coragen’.
UP cane commissioner Sanjay Bhoosreddy told Business Standard that DuPont had been making false propaganda over TV commercials regarding increase of yield through Coragen.
He said the claims of DuPont, as purportedly shown in the commercials, had been negated in scientific tests and according to the scientific reports of various institutions, Coragen could only be used to control termite, early shoot borer and top borer, and that the chemical did not
UP cane commissioner Sanjay Bhoosreddy told Business Standard that DuPont had been making false propaganda over TV commercials regarding increase of yield through Coragen.
He said the claims of DuPont, as purportedly shown in the commercials, had been negated in scientific tests and according to the scientific reports of various institutions, Coragen could only be used to control termite, early shoot borer and top borer, and that the chemical did not

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