CHICO “CALIBUR® + X”: Comprehensive Tomato Disease Management Solutions

CHICO “CALIBUR® + X” Comprehensive Disease Management Solutions to Boost Tomato Growers’ Profits

Dec.15.2025

As one of the most economically significant vegetable crops globally cultivated, tomato has an extensive cultivation distribution covering over 170 countries and regions across five continents. However, throughout its entire growth cycle, tomato is susceptible to various pathogens, which causes numerous common diseases. These diseases spread rapidly and lead to extensive damage, representing a major obstacle that constrains the sustainable and high-quality development of the tomato industry.

Unique Advantages and Mode of Action of CALIBUR®

Leveraging years of technical expertise in crop protection, CHICO CROP addresses key challenges in tomato disease control by offering a customized “CALIBUR®+X” comprehensive disease management solution. This integrated solution acts from seed stage to seedling, transplanting, establishment phase, and initial disease outbreak, with the goal of reducing disease severity.

CALIBUR® is an thiazole-based organic copper fungicide that is highly effective against bacterial diseases in crops and also efficient against fungal diseases caused by Deuteromycotina. It has excellent systemic properties, being rapidly absorbed by the roots, stems, and leaves of tomato plants after application and translocated bidirectionally throughout the plant to achieve both protective and curative effects.

CHICO CROP Full-Cycle Integrated Disease Solution: Precise Strategy, Complete Protection

Based on disease characteristics at different growth stages of tomato, the CHICO team scientifically combines other chemical fungicides and biological from its portfolio, such as the ARPHAGOLD® soil conditioner, BIOCUT™, and BIOAMINO™, to form a full-cycle solution integrating prevention, treatment, and conditioning.

(1) Stage One: Seed Treatment Period (Pre-sowing)
Objective: Eliminate pathogens on and within seeds, reduce the risk of seedling diseases, and improve seed germination and seedling uniformity.
Solution: CALIBUR® + FIESTA® + ARPHAGOLD®

(2) Stage Two: Seedling Stage (Emergence to Pre-Transplanting)
Objective: Control soil-borne diseases, such as damping-off and Fusarium wilt, and improve transplant survival rate.
Solution: CALIBUR® + BIOAMINO™ + ROTOVOR®

(3) Stage Three: Transplanting to Flowering Stage
Objective: Prevent early infections of diseases, such as leaf mold, late blight, Fusarium wilt, and canker, while promoting robust plant growth.
Solution: BIOCUT™ + CALIBUR® + BIOEXTRA™+ CYFA® + PYRACO®

(4) Stage Four: Flowering & Fruit Setting to Peak Fruiting Stage
Objective: Control fruit-affecting diseases, such as gray mold, early blight, and bacterial wilt, while ensuring normal fruit development.
Solution: CALIBUR® + COOSA® + KAPA® + SDHI Fungicide

Tomato disease management is a systematic endeavor that requires adherence to the principle of “Prevention first, integrated control”. Through scientific product combinations and precise application strategies, this solution provides growers with a professional, efficient, and safe approach to disease prevention and control.