The Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus offers consumers the contact-intestinal insecticide "VITAN" under a manufacturing agreement and is looking for partners to conclude a distribution services agreement.

Insecticides for the control of a wide range of agricultural, forestry, and stored-product pests play a key role in protecting crops and maintaining product quality. Modern insecticides are developed with high efficacy, minimal environmental impact, and human safety in mind.

Major global insecticide manufacturers:

1. Bayer CropScience (Germany)
- Key Features: One of the largest insecticide manufacturers, offering a wide range of products for the protection of grain, vegetable, fruit crops, and forestry.
2. Syngenta AG (Switzerland)
- Key Features: The company develops innovative insecticides for the control of agricultural and stored-product pests.
4. Corteva Agriscience (USA)
- Key Features: The company offers a wide range of insecticides for crop protection and stored-product pest control.
5. Adama Agricultural Solutions (Israel)
- Features: The company offers insecticides for the control of agricultural and stored-product pests.
6. Nufarm Limited (Australia)
- Features: Manufacturer of insecticides for the protection of grain, vegetable, and fruit crops.
7. Sumitomo Chemical (Japan)
- Features: The company develops insecticides for agriculture and forestry, including the control of stored-product pests.
8. UPL Limited (India)
- Features: Manufacturer of insecticides for the protection of agricultural crops, including potatoes, grain, and fruit crops.
9. JSC "Avgust" (Russia)
- The company specializes in the production of agrochemical products, including insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides, including the insecticide "Sherpa" – a chemical product containing the active ingredient cypermethrin (a pyrethroid). It is used to control a wide range of agricultural pests, including grain, vegetable, and fruit crops, as well as to protect forest stands and stored products. The product has contact and stomach action, ensuring high insecticidal efficacy.

The insecticide "Vitan," developed at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, is an analogue of the insecticide "Sherpa."

Information is available on the Institute's official website in the "Agricultural Products" section.

Active ingredient: cypermethrin (25% concentration in the product).
Mechanism of action: Disrupts the nervous system of insects, causing paralysis and death.
Applications:
- For protecting grain crops (wheat, barley, etc.) from pests such as aphids, thrips, and grain beetles.
- For vegetable and fruit crops from cabbage moths, codling moths, and leaf-eating pests.
- For potatoes from Colorado potato beetles.
- For protecting forest plantations from pests such as silkworms and bark beetles.
Application: Spray plants during the growing season.
Features:
- Fast action (pest death begins within a few hours after treatment).
- Long-lasting protective effect (up to 2-3 weeks).
- Resistant to washout by rain.

The drug is included in the Catalogue of pesticides and fertilizers permitted for use in the Republic of Belarus" Registration number 01-122.

Currently, the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is the leading research center in the Republic of Belarus and one of the most renowned international centers for the study of key biopolymers (proteins, enzymes, nucleic acids) and low-molecular-weight bioregulators (human, insect, and plant steroid hormones, peptides, phospholipids, prostaglandins, and their synthetic analogs).

Main areas of activity:
- Fundamental and applied research in the chemistry, structure, and function of biopolymers and low-molecular-weight bioregulators, including proteins, nucleic acids and their components, phospholipids, steroids, prostaglandins, brassinosteroids, and ecdysteroids;
- Development and pilot production of immunochemical and molecular biological reagent kits for medical and veterinary diagnostics;
- Development and production of pharmaceutical substances, hormonal preparations, and biospecific hemosorbents;
- Development of technologies for the production and use of growth stimulants and plant protection products;
- Experimental and clinical pharmacology, pharmacy and drug technology, toxicology, human and animal biochemistry, biomedical and pharmaceutical chemistry;
- Preclinical, bioequivalence, and pharmaceutical testing.

Main research areas:
- Organic and bioorganic chemistry of low-molecular-weight bioregulators (steroids, peptides, prostaglandins, lipids, nucleosides, and nucleotides) and key biopolymers, including proteins and nucleic acids, and the elucidation of their functioning in living systems;
- Development of new chemical, chemical-enzymatic, and genetic engineering methods for producing biopolymers and low-molecular-weight bioregulators and their analogs for the development of pharmaceuticals for medicine and agriculture;
- Study of the structure, physicochemical properties, and biological activity of natural biomolecules and their analogs, establishing the relationship between their structure and biological activity, and developing scientific principles for the targeted search for substances with predictable biological activity. - study of the structure, function, and mechanism of action of enzyme systems involved in the biosynthesis and metabolism of key natural bioregulators and xenobiotics;
- development of technologies for the production of reagents for medical diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, and plant protection chemicals.

The institute has experimental facilities for studying the biological activity of the resulting compounds at the cellular level and in animal models. Five pilot production sites have been established at the institute for pilot production of the developed products (hemosorbents, recombinant enzyme preparations, immunochemical reagents, oxyphytosterols, etc.).

The results of fundamental and applied research on methods and means for protecting plants from diseases, insects, weeds, and other adverse environmental factors that are safe for humans and the biosphere as a whole have formed the foundation for the development of new plant growth stimulants, pheromone compositions (codling moth LP-U and miller moth pheromones), active pesticide ingredients, and pesticide formulations (herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.).

The institute's intellectual property currently consists of valid patents, laboratory process and pilot industrial regulations, technical specifications, and trademarks. License agreements are in place for the transfer of technologies for the production of immunodiagnostic products, hemosorbents, and pesticides to manufacturers.

The Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry is successfully developing international ties in its core research areas. The institute currently conducts joint research with research institutes in the CIS countries, Germany, the USA, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Vietnam, and other countries.

Official website of the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry.