Insecticides India Ltd Summary
Insecticides India Limited (IIL) was originally incorporated as Insecticides (India) Private Limited on 18th December 1996. Subsequently, the Company was converted into Public Limited Company. The Company was not carrying out any business from December 1996 till October 2001.
The commercial production started in March, 2002 at Chopanki Unit in Rajasthan with an installed capacity of 29.40 Lacs litres of EC, and 2400 MTs of Granules. The Company has two units one in Chopanki Rajasthan and another in Samba J&K. Unit at Samba was commissioned in 2004.
The Company manufacture and market a comprehensive portfolio of crop protection and nutrition products, spanning insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, plant growth regulators (PGRs), and biologicals, for virtually every major crop grown in India. Company has developed cost effective and quality crop protection solutions to enhance yield and lives of the farmers focusing on quality, access and affordability. The primary business is manufacturing and distribution of formulations of plant protection chemicals and house hold pesticides.
Till FY 2006, Company was concentrating on the agrochemicals and then introduced house hold pesticides. In May 2007, the company entered into capital market and issued 32,10,000 Equity Shares.In FY 2006-07, Advance Crop Solutions Limited was incorporated wholly owned subsidiary Company on 23rd November, 2006. The technical plant at Chopanki commenced operations in 2007.
Expansion capacity at the formulation plant was completed in Samba during 2007. In 2014, the Company established a new R&D center for product innovation at Chopanki in a joint venture with OAT Agi Agiro Co. from Japan.
In 2016, it launched two new products Suzuka and Hakko. It pioneered the production of Green Label (Bispyribac Sodium 10% SC) in India for the first time,, subsequently launching it to captivate the Indian market. In 2015, it launched the bio-product, Mycoraja, in the Indian market.
In 2018, it launched a host of new products under 9(3) Registration (Sofia, Encounter, Hercules and Aikido).In 2022, it launched innovative products Shinwa & Izuki products in partnership with Nissan, Japan; launched Torry, a maize herbicide as Make in India product.In 2022-23, the wholly owned subsidiary was incorporated on July 15, 2022 namely IIL Biologicals Limited. The Company commissioned the expansion at Chopanki Plant in Rajasthan, making it fully operational in FY 2024.In 2025, Company acquired Kaeros Research Pvt Ltd to enhance supply chain efficiency, reduce costs through direct imports in 2025. It launched products like Torry Super, Centran and Relieve to yield improvements following superior crop protection.The Company collaborated with Corteva Agriscience with the launch of GRANUVIAT in FY 2026.