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Bayer criticizes Mexico for blocking imports of herbicide

Date：Dec. 2, 2019 Category：Companies

Bayer AG criticized Mexico for stopping imports of the key ingredient in its Roundup herbicide, warning that the country’s farmers will face a “major disrupti...

Thailand urged to delay pesticides ban over risks to agriculture

Date：Nov. 22, 2019 Category：Markets

A trade group representing pesticide firms urged Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha to delay a ban due Dec. 1 on three chemicals because of the potent...

Dhanuka Agritech Expects Margins To Recover In Second Half Of FY20 As Demand Rises

Date：Nov. 20, 2019 Category：Companies

Dhanuka Agritech Ltd.

Dhanuka Agritech Ltd. expects its margins to recover in the second half of the ongoing financial year after an erratic monsoon affected the pesticide maker’s p...

Trade war’s forgotten farmers get crushed in U.S. cotton country

Date：Nov. 12, 2019 Category：Markets

American cotton farmers are having such a difficult year that even a potential trade deal between the U.S. and China is likely to offer them little comfort.

Tags:Cotton

Q2 Results: UPL’s Profit Misses Estimates On One-Time Expense

Date：Nov. 8, 2019 Category：Companies

UPL Limited

UPL Ltd.’s quarterly profit missed estimates because of a one-time expense. Net profit was Rs 89 crore in the quarter ended September, the agro-chemical ma...

US farm bankruptcies spike up 24% in September

Date：Nov. 4, 2019 Category：Markets

U.S. farm bankruptcies in September surged 24% to the highest since 2011 amid strains from President Donald Trump's trade war with China and a year of wild weat...

Syngenta plans to IPO next 2.5 years, CEO Erik Fyrwald says

Date：Oct. 25, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Syngenta Crop Protection AG

Erik Fyrwald, Syngenta chief executive officer, was interviewed by Bloomberg, discussing the company's initiative to tackle climate change and the future of the...

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

Eurochem

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...

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Bayer criticizes Mexico for blocking imports of herbicide

Thailand urged to delay pesticides ban over risks to agriculture

Dhanuka Agritech Expects Margins To Recover In Second Half Of FY20 As Demand Rises

Trade war’s forgotten farmers get crushed in U.S. cotton country

Q2 Results: UPL’s Profit Misses Estimates On One-Time Expense

US farm bankruptcies spike up 24% in September

Syngenta plans to IPO next 2.5 years, CEO Erik Fyrwald says

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

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