Wheat Crop Saver
Arab News 16 October 1989
Riyadh Roundup

Golden Grass, Inc., a leading Saudi Agro-chemical Company. Has signed an agreement with the in-Kingdom representative of Ciba-Geigy(Novartis), the Swiss multinational giant for the exclusive distribution of two major cereal crop products vital to the Kingdom's farm sector. According to James Brown, vice president of Golden Grass, Inc. (Agrochemical Division). One of the products is Tilt CB, a fungicide which is effective against a broader spectrum of wheat and barley fungal diseases and, therefore, gains a competitive edge in the market. It also effectively checks "Yellow rust," a disease feared by all Saudi farmers in view of its capacity to devastate an entire wheat harvest. The second insecticide, Brown said, is Dimecron, which is lethal to aphids, a crop pest, but harmless to such insects as ladybirds, which feed on aphids.