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Agriculture · Q502

Plant Pathology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 502

Q502

Chemical pesticide present in Baygon is

A.
Malathion
B.
Parathion
C.
Propoxur
Answer
D.
Aldicarb

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
The chemical pesticide present in Baygon is Propoxur.
Baygon is a pesticide brand produced by S. C. Johnson & Son. It is an insecticide used for the extermination and control of household pests such as crickets, roaches, ants, carpenter ants, spiders, silverfish and mosquitoes.
Baygon products contain the pyrethroids cyfluthrin, transfluthrin, cypermethrin, prallethrin, and the carbamate propoxur and organophosphorus chlorpyrifos, as active ingredients.