Crop Protection Innovation - Barrix

The Bangalore-based startup offers eco-friendly crop protection methods after much research on products that support organic farming to increase crop produce and quality with minimal expenditure.

Products:

Barrix Catch Fruit and Fly Lure + trap:

Toxic pesticides contaminate water, soil and leave behind harmful residue, besides being expensive. Barrix’s pheromone-based pest control traps have artificially synthesized smelling agents that attracts and traps pests. Instead of eating the crops, the pests are attracted to the pheromones in the trap.

Barrix Catch Fruit Fly Trap can be used to attract and trap pests of the Bactrocera dorsalis with 83 sub species. Commonly known as Fruit Fly, it is a major pest of high risk and causes damages upto 100% pre-harvest damage.

Fly pest sticky sheet:

Barrix uses bright yellow and blue coloured recyclable sheets of wavelengths between 500 nm to 600 nm, proven to effectively attract and trap at least 19 high-risk pests from a long distance.