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Russia, US, Trinidad face five-year EU tariffs on fertilizer

Date：Oct. 10, 2019 Category：Regulations

The European Union imposed five-year tariffs on a liquid nitrogen fertilizer from Russia, the U.S. and Trinidad and Tobago to curb competition for producers in ...

India Govt Estimates Kharif Crop Output Slightly Lower At 140.57 Million Tonne In FY20

Date：Sep. 24, 2019 Category：Markets

India’s foodgrains production is estimated slightly lower at 140.57 million tonne in the kharif season of 2019-20 crop year on likely fall in rice and pulses o...

Russia faces threat of longer European tariffs on fertilizer

Date：Sep. 24, 2019 Category：Regulations

The European Union may renew quarter-century-old trade protection on Russian ammonium nitrate, risking a backlash from EU farmers opposed to the import curbs.

Kharif Crop Production This Year To Be Higher Than Last Year, Says India Agriculture Minister

Date：Sep. 23, 2019 Category：Markets

India's crop production in the Kharif season (summer-sown) will be higher than last year's 141.71 million tonne on better monsoon rains, Minister of State for A...

EuroChem CEO Ostbo sees growth from core market, not specialties

Date：Sep. 4, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

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The new chief of EuroChem Group AG, the fertilizer producer owned by Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, sees traditional nutrients rather than super specia...

India’s monsoon turnaround revives crop sowing

Date：Aug. 14, 2019 Category：Markets

A turnabout in India’s monsoon has helped offset the rain deficit, providing relief to farmers who have begun crop sowing. 21 out of the country’s 36 sub-divi...

Spurning US EPA objections, California keeps cancer Prop. 65 warning on herbicide

Date：Aug. 14, 2019 Category：Regulations

California has no plans to change its rule that certain products containing the herbicide glyphosate require warnings to consumers that it could cause cancer, d...

Tags:Glyphosate

Bayer CEO's investor call, will settle Roundup lawsuit financial responsibly

Date：Aug. 1, 2019 Category：Companies

Bayer AG Chief Executive Officer Werner Baumann said he'd consider a "financially reasonable" settlement of litigation over the weedkiller Roundup as the caselo...

Tags:Glyphosate

Indonesia warns of damage to rice crop as drought parches fields

Date：Jul. 31, 2019 Category：Markets

Indonesia’s rice crop is at risk of damage from an unusually long dry weather spell that’s gripped several producing regions, raising prospects of elevated im...

Tags:Weather Rice

German Minister casts doubt on glyphosate's future use in Europe

Date：Jul. 15, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

German Agriculture Minister Julia Kloeckner said glyphosate herbicide probably won’t have enough support to gain re-authorization for use in the European Union...

Tags:Glyphosate

U.S. EPA Curbs Use of 12 Bee-Harming Pesticides

Date：May. 30, 2019 Category：Regulations

The Environmental Protection Agency has canceled registration of a dozen pesticides, from a class of chemicals known to harm bees.

Nigeria approves two GMO cotton varieties to increase output

Date：May. 10, 2019 Category：Regulations

Nigeria approved two genetically modified varieties of cotton for use by the nation’s farmers to help boost supply to its textile industry and cut lint imports...

Tags:GM crop Cotton

WTO finds fault with China's agricultural trade restrictions

Date：Apr. 23, 2019 Category：Markets

China didn’t follow proper procedures when it imposed trade restrictions on agricultural imports, the World Trade Organization said on Thursday in a ruling tha...

Data becomes cash crop for big agriculture

Date：Mar. 14, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

For six generations, Ben Riensche’s family has tended corn and soybeans outside Jesup, a town of 2,500 on the windswept plains of eastern Iowa.

Scientists breed salt-loving crops, but world is slow to bite

Date：Mar. 5, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Scientists in Dubai are developing crops like quinoa that can thrive in the salty soils intruding into the world’s croplands. Winning over enough people to eat...

Tags:Seed breeding

USA: Farmers Business Network, the startup taking on Bayer with cheaper, non-GMO seeds

Date：Mar. 5, 2019 Category：Companies

Farmers Business Network, Inc.

Farmers don’t have a reputation for skewing to the political left, but just get them talking about seeds. At an expo center on the outskirts of Memphis one gra...

China commits to buy more US soybean in ‘Good News’ for trade talks

Date：Feb. 26, 2019 Category：Markets

China has committed to buying more U.S. soybeans, a good sign of progress on trade talks between the nations, according to Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue.

Rupee Volatility To Contract Profit Margin, Says Dhanuka Agritech

Date：Jan. 2, 2019 Category：Companies

Dhanuka Agritech Ltd. expects its operating margin to fall and profit level to remain “flattish” in the financial year 2019 due to a volatile rupee and higher...

Finally, a GMO to tempt the crowd at whole foods

Date：Dec. 28, 2018 Category：Science&Research

These days everything from cookies to orange juice carry labels boasting that they’re GMO free – a marketing ploy that assumes consumers still hate, fear or a...

Tags:GM crop

Researchers develop vaccine for honey bees

Date：Dec. 12, 2018 Category：Science&Research

A growing number of honey bees die each year due to pesticides, vanishing habitats, poor nutrition and climate change, with potentially disastrous consequences ...

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Russia, US, Trinidad face five-year EU tariffs on fertilizer

India Govt Estimates Kharif Crop Output Slightly Lower At 140.57 Million Tonne In FY20

Russia faces threat of longer European tariffs on fertilizer

Kharif Crop Production This Year To Be Higher Than Last Year, Says India Agriculture Minister

EuroChem CEO Ostbo sees growth from core market, not specialties

India’s monsoon turnaround revives crop sowing

Spurning US EPA objections, California keeps cancer Prop. 65 warning on herbicide

Bayer CEO's investor call, will settle Roundup lawsuit financial responsibly

Indonesia warns of damage to rice crop as drought parches fields

German Minister casts doubt on glyphosate's future use in Europe

U.S. EPA Curbs Use of 12 Bee-Harming Pesticides

Nigeria approves two GMO cotton varieties to increase output

WTO finds fault with China's agricultural trade restrictions

Data becomes cash crop for big agriculture

Scientists breed salt-loving crops, but world is slow to bite

USA: Farmers Business Network, the startup taking on Bayer with cheaper, non-GMO seeds

China commits to buy more US soybean in ‘Good News’ for trade talks

Rupee Volatility To Contract Profit Margin, Says Dhanuka Agritech

Finally, a GMO to tempt the crowd at whole foods

Researchers develop vaccine for honey bees

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