• ManiDharma Biotech Private Limited

Neem Oil

ManiDharma Biotech Private Limited offers Neem Oil. Neem oil is a vegetable oil pressed from the fruits and seeds of neem (Azadirachta indica). The neem is very useful tree due to its medicinal and insecticidal properties and can be grown even under semi arid and subhumid conditions upto 700m above sea level. Neem seeds contain up to 45% oil, non-edible in nature. A neem seed contains about 47% oil. The oil is vegetable type oil composed primarily of glycerides (80 to 95%) and free fatty acids (4 to 20%). It is bio-degradable natural plant material. It has no phytotoxicity (damaging properties to the plant tissues) in lower ranges (like1to3%).
Biolgical effects of neem on insects :

• Repellent
• Insecticidal
• Antibacterial
• Antifungal
• Feeding deterrent
• Oviposition deterrent
• Insect growth inhibiting
• Nematicidal.