An insect control product made from insect sex pheromones will be widely used in the safe production of vegetables by the end of this year. The pheromone product will register for its trademark early next year, announced the Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry.

The product was developed by the Viet Nam-China Scientific and Technological Cooperation Programme. They researched insect sex pheromones and their applications.

Under the project, launched in January of 2002, pheromones have been applied to 26.5 ha of vegetables in Ha Noi and northern provinces, as well as on 146 ha of litchis in Bac Giang province to kill borer and fruit fly species.

The project has produced 7,900 pheromone baits to kill vegetable insect species in the ministry's flora protection institute laboratory.