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Indian Agritech startup DeHaat raises ₹30 cr led by Omnivore

Date：Mar. 21, 2019 Category：Markets

Owned by Green AgRevolution Pvt. Ltd, DeHaat is a technology-based platform offering end-to-end agricultural services to farmers, including distribution of high...

Straggling rabi crop cultivation underlines flaws in India agri policy

Date：Mar. 8, 2019 Category：Markets

The sharp hike in minimum support prices (MSPs) last year was expected to lift rural income and revive the agriculture sector. However, the sector has remained ...

UPL open to buy back TPG Cap, ADIA stakes in Arysta

Date：Feb. 8, 2019 Category：Companies

UPL Limited

Agrochemicals firm UPL Ltd may buy back the stakes of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and TPG Capital, which helped the Mumbai-based company acquire Aryst...

Challenges begin to emerge for UPL Arysta combine

Date：Dec. 27, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

UPL Ltd’s $4.2 billion purchase of Arysta LifeScience Inc. avoided the typical investor scepticism associated with large acquisitions. With the management conv...

Latin America packs a punch for UPL in Q2, but there is no earnings upgrades yet

Date：Oct. 30, 2018 Category：Companies

UPL Ltd’s September quarter (Q2) results come as a respite for investors in agriculture input companies, concerned about cost pressures and moderate demand con...

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India:Why record foodgrain production failed to cheer farm input providers

Date：Oct. 8, 2018 Category：Markets

The forecast of a record foodgrain production in the ongoing kharif season has brought no cheer to agricultural inputs stocks. Shares of Rallis India Ltd lost 3...

UPL set to acquire Arysta LifeScience for over $4 billion

Date：Jul. 9, 2018 Category：Companies

UPL Ltd is close to buying the farm pesticides business of investor Bill Ackman’s Platform Specialty Products Corp.—known as Arysta LifeScience—for more than...

National Seed Association of India director general quits over intellectual property rights concerns on GM crops

Date：Jun. 27, 2018 Category：Companies

In a sign of turmoil in the Indian seed industry, National Seed Association of India (NSAI) director general Kalyan Goswami has resigned, following differences ...

India draft pesticide bill: Stricter penalties, more power for states

Date：Feb. 24, 2018 Category：Markets

A new draft bill on regulating pesticides, released by the centre, proposes an increase in penalties on violators and gives more power to state governments to t...

Crystal Crop Protection to acquire Solvay’s manufacturing plant in Nagpur,India

Date：Jan. 31, 2018 Category：Companies

Crystal Crop Protection Pvt. Ltd (CCPPL) on Tuesday said it agreed to acquire a speciality chemicals plant from Cytec India Specialty Chemicals & Materials Pvt....

Tags:Acquisition

Indofil Industries: Fostering trust, transparency and togetherness

Date：Jan. 22, 2018 Category：Companies

Indofil Industries Limited

It’s the three Ts: transparency, togetherness and trust, that Indofil Industries Ltd thrives on. A chemicals company promoted by the KK Modi Group, Indofil Ind...

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How Israel is bringing new technology for the Indian farmer

Date：Jan. 12, 2018 Category：Markets

India and Israel are set to jointly develop new crop varieties and share post harvest technologies following the success of the 10-year-old Indo-Israeli Agricul...

India Govt’s ambitious fertilizer subsidy reform plan

Date：Dec. 19, 2017 Category：Markets

Union minister for chemicals and fertilizers Ananth Kumar’s ambitious plan to clear the fertilizer subsidy backlog before the implementation of the direct bene...

Tags:Crop Nutrition

India: The roots of the crisis in the seed industry

Date：Nov. 21, 2017 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

For many decades, the Indian policy framework facilitated the interaction of science and innovation with entrepreneurship, which led to competition and the subs...

India: weak monsoon raises the risk of earnings estimates cuts for agrochemical firms

Date：Sep. 29, 2017 Category：Markets

As the summer crop (kharif) season draws to a close, more proof is emerging that the season has been anything but strong.

Kaveri Seed’s diversification welcome, but implementation is key

Date：Aug. 24, 2017 Category：Companies

Kaveri Seed Company Ltd.

India seed company Kaveri Seed Co. Ltd, dubbed by some as a one-trick pony, is stepping up efforts to shed that perception. The June quarter results presentatio...

UPL said to explore bid for Platform Specialty agrochemical unit

Date：Jul. 25, 2017 Category：Companies

Indian agrochemicals producer UPL Ltd is exploring a bid of more than $4 billion for the agrochemicals business of Platform Specialty Products Corp to expand it...

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GST on raw materials may hit fertilizer output, boost imports

Date：Jul. 21, 2017 Category：Markets

A new tax on the raw materials used to make phosphate-based fertilizers in India will increase domestic manufacturing costs and make imports more attractive, ac...

Tags:Crop Nutrition

Crystal Crop plans IPO, eyes 20% revenue growth

Date：May. 11, 2017 Category：Companies

Crystal Crop Protection Limited

Agro-chemical firm Crystal Crop Protection expects 20% increase in turnover this fiscal at about Rs1,600 crore and plans to launch an initial public offer (IPO)...

Tags:Investment & Expansion

UPL profitability miss no big deal as it maintains growth momentum

Date：May. 2, 2017 Category：Companies