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General Recommendations

Albit combines properties of a plant growth regulator, biofungicide, fertilizer and an antidote (antistress agent). Now, Albit has already been registered as a plant growth regulator (Nr 09-00496-0378-1), and as a fungicide (Nr 0470-06-107-150-1-1-3-1).

The main ways of using Albit are:

• As an antidote, Albit is used with herbicides, increasing yields of cereals, sugar beet, sunflower, buckwheat, soybean, and flax averagely by 16.6% (up to 68%). Addition of Albit to herbicides (just 88 roubles/hectare of additional expenses) provides 1.2–9.9 centners/hectare of average extra yield of cereals, 25.7 centners/hectare of sugar beet, 6.8 centners/hectare of buckwheat. Treatment with Albit also protects plants from drought and leaf diseases.
• Presowing seed treatment of cereals, sunflower, soybean, millet, pea и buckwheat. t is possible to use combinations of Albit with the minimal recommended doses of fungicides, or (depending on the infection level) to replace them partially or completely with Albit. Since for the majority of crops the cost of treatment with Albit is less than 50 roubles/tonne of seeds, the total cost of seed treatment might be reduced by 25–90%. Seed treatment with Albit provides additionally 3.8 centners/hectare of winter wheat, 3.7 centners/hectare of spring barley, 3.0 centners/hectare of sunflower, 4.7 centners/hectare of soybean, 2.4 centners/hectare of pea. Protection of plants against root rots and advancing immunization against soil and leaf infections are also provided.
• Joint use of Albit with insecticides is capable to increase productivity of cereals, potato, vegetables by 36.1% on average (in case of (canola up to 93%) in comparison with pure insecticides. Spraying of wheat with combination of Albit and insectoacarycides against chinch increases gluten content in grain by 1.2–4.6%.
• Application of Albit together with mineral fertilizers makes possible reduction of fertilizer application rates averagely by 10-30%. Addition of Albit to solution of urea or to other liquid nitric fertilizers, helps to avoid stress (burns) of plants.
• Protection of apple and vine, that makes possible 2-3 fold reduction of chemical fungicide amounts, and harvesting of ecologically pure organic production through partial replacement of scheduled chemical fungicide treatments with Albit.
• Pre-planting treatment of tubers and foliar spraying of potato with Albit in alternation with chemical fungicides partially replaces the chemical treatments.
• Treatment of vegetables, which makes possible partial or entire replacement of growth promoters, fungicides, and fertilizers.
• Stimulation of fodder grasses (galega, alfalfa, clover, vetch) regrowth after skewing.
• Induction of flowering of decorative plants and increasing its duration.

From the point of view of economy of technical resources, Albit is recommended to use together with the scheduled treatment with seed treatment agents, fungicides, herbicides, liquid fertilizers. In this case dates for treatment with Albit can even be shifted a bit regarding to recommended ones, since in any case use of the Albit in first half of vegetation guarantees the positive result. Terms of use of Albit and frequency rate (number of treatments) are less important, than observance of application rates. Doses from 30 up to 50 ml of the Albit per ton of seeds or per hectare of crops are optimal for the majority of crops (Table 1). Reduction in a dose will result in reduction of effectiveness. Excess over application rates does not give a visible increase of effectiveness for the majority of crops (and, therefore, it is sensless from the economic point of view). Moreover, in case of vegetable crops significant excess of the Albit decrease its effect of due to superfluous stimulation.