Welcome to Kannar
Your Partner in Sustainable Agriculture. Explore our range of products and services in Water Conservation, Biological Insecticides & Fungicides, Seed Conditioning, Security Marking, and Agricultural Colors, that are designed to assist farmers, growers, and gardeners implement greener practices.
At Kannar, we are committed to providing innovative agricultural solutions that promote sustainability and enhance productivity. Our mission is to empower farmers and growers to transition away from traditional chemistries supported with local products and technical support. We own and run all our R+D, Production and Quality Control and can customize products where necessary for customers.
All our products are manufactured in South Africa in plant that generates
at least 75% of its electrical consumption from solar.
Water Conservation
Water scarcity is recognized as one of the most severe challenges facing the plant today. Driven by population growth coupled to industrialization and agricultural practices that are often highly inefficient in direct use of water but also major drivers of carbon emissions and global warming.
Kannar has recognized two important areas where its technologies can provide solutions i.e. smart sealing of water storage dams and water conservation for plant root systems.
Discover more about Kannar’s water-conserving technology here.
Organic Pesticides and Fungicides
Agricultural worldwide is moving steadily away from unsustainable practices and this includes a growing list of banned synthetic chemistries. Biological pesticides and fungicides can play a crucial role in sustainable agriculture when used correctly - alone or in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs. Kannar’s Biologicals are currently all plant extract formulations, which pose no risk of residual buildup, Minimum Residue Levels, offer a maximum of 48hr pre-harvest interval, and can be applied in a manner that greatly limits risk to beneficial insects. The products have been registered in South Africa for about 20years and are attested for organic farming by Ecocert.
Protect your crops naturally and effectively. Discover Our Organic Range and see the difference.
Seed Conditioning
Kannar has been providing Seed Conditioning products such as Sodium Molybdate, Captan and Polymers for over 20 years. The Polymers primarily act as binder for actives to seed but also provide colour, slip and prevent dust-off on treated seeds. Designed and manufactured in-house, polymers can be customized to suit customer requirements.
Find Out How Kannar's seed conditioning services can benefit you.
Security & Micro-Tracing
Identification of Agricultural Produce and Mined Ores has become a major security concern for for growers and mining operations. The challenge of forensically proving the origin of a crop or or an ore is challenge due to the number of similar products in the market, large stock volumes, and logistical scale of transporting product locally and internationally. Kannar offer an innovative range of marking technologies to identify crop, timber and ores for marketing and forensic purposes.
Discover how our forensically encoded particles can safeguard your seeds and timber.
Agricultural Colourants
Kannar Earth Science's Ecolour and Sprayrite range is specifically designed for the general agricultural industry, providing high-quality, versatile colorants for permanent and temporary coloration. Applications include timber marking, sprayed area confirmation (eg herbicide), turf colouring, and irrigation line testing.
Learn More about our products and applications.
Kannar full range overview
Seed Treatment
Seed Coating – Seedkote range finishing polymers available in pearlescent and flat colours.
Seed Protection – Captan FS Fungicide. A suspension concentrate to protect against diseases such as Cob and Tassel Smut, Damping-off disease, Seedlnig disease, Athracnose rot, Boll rot, Stinking smut (Bunt).
Seed Nutrition – Kanmol 500. Liquid Solution of Sodium Molybdate to assist with Molybdenum deficiencies in crops such as maize, sunflower, lucerne and grass cover crops.
General Ag Colours
Sprayrite BlueTM – Water soluble concentrated intense blue dye for use in general agriculture where tank mixtures require a fading colourant and/or also for the temporary colouring of water bodies.
Turfkare Green – Water-soluble grass green colourant for the application to lawns and turf. Typical applications include racecourses, golf courses, and for stadium or outdoor sports fields.
E-colours – General water-soluble agricultural colour dispersions for use in tank mixtures and spray area identification.
Crop Protection
- Biological Products
- Garlic Repellent 930 – organically attested plant extract concentrate of garlic for preventative treatment prior to infestation of various insects on roses, ornamentals and herbs. No withholding period.
- KangarTM 931 – a broad-spectrum insecticide/fungicide concentrate with contact smother and repelling action on small-bodied insects. Organically attested plant extract formulation based on garlic extract and canola oil with no known harmful residues. 24hr withholding period makes KangarTM 931 an ideal inclusion in late spray applications and IPM.
- PygarTM 932 – a broad-spectrum insecticide concentrate based on garlic extract, canola oil and a low dose of natural pyrethrum. Primary mode of action is smothering (canola), repellency (garlic) completed with nerve action from pyrethrum. Organically attested for use as a full cover spray for the control of large and small bodied insects on roses, fruit trees, vegetables and ornamentals. 24hr withholding period makes PygarTM 932 an ideal inclusion in late spray applications and IPM.
- KangroshieldTM 100 – a broad-spectrum insecticide concentrate based on natural pyrethrum, garlic extract and canola oil. Primary mode of action is provided by pyrethrum which is potent insect nerve poison. Garlic functions as repellent but also has recognised effects against insects and fungus. Organically attested for use as a full cover spray for the control of large and small bodied insects on roses, fruit trees, vegetables and ornamentals. 48hr withholding period and low dose make it an economical bio-pesticide for inclusion in late spray applications and IPM.
- KangaurdTM 940 – a contact fungicide based on a blend of natural plant acids for the preventative and curative control of powdery mildew, downy mildew, botrytis (post-harvest) on various crops (see label). Compatible with all of Kannar’s biological insecticides with short a 24hr withholding period.
- Mammal Repellent – Kannar Firesauce. A potent concentrate formulation combining the punch of capsicum (chilli) with a blend of ingredients know to be distasteful to mammals. Ideal to application to young crops susceptible to feeding damage caused by mammal browsers.
- Room Spray – OrganokilTM. An effective room-spray based on natural pyrethrum that can be used for the control of flying insects (mosquitoes and flies) and crawling insects (ants, cockroaches and fleas). Natural pyrethrum provides potent knockdown action on insects and also functions as a respiratory irritant flushing hiding insects.
Identification Coatings
- TimbermarkTM – high intensity colourants that contain tagging markers for forensic identification. Used typically in forestry where timber theft is high.
- Sparklestick – a coded seed coating for forensic identification of on high value seeds. Can be used in combination with traditional polymer colours.
