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• Indian soil laboratory network in the making

  Date：Oct. 10, 2019 Category：Markets

  A soil laboratory network at the national level will be established in partnership with the Indian Council of Agricultural Research under the aegis of the Asian...

• Current status and future prospects of biological control - Interview with Casa Bugre | Agrivalle

  Date：Oct. 10, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Agrivalle Brasil Indústria e Comércio de Produtos Agrícolas Ltda.

  In an exclusive interview with Portfolio Manager of Casa Bugre | Agrivalle, Wagner Coladel, a player that gains relevance in the Brazilian market, he spoke abou...

• India's monsoon starts withdrawing in delayed retreat

  Date：Oct. 10, 2019 Category：Markets

  India's monsoon rains started withdrawing from the northwest region from Wednesday, marking the most delayed retreat of the seasonal rainfall, the Indian Meteor...

• Ecolibrium Biologicals: Accepting Mediocrity in Efficacy And Shelf Life at a Time When the Biopesticide Industry Must Strive for Excellence

  Date：Oct. 10, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  As the company's founder and technical director, Stephen Ford has a different understanding of the biopesticide market and research and development. Recently, A...

• Trimble launches next-generation WeedSeeker 2 spot spray system

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Products

  Trimble

  Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced its next-generation WeedSeeker 2 spot spray system. Building on more than 25 years of experience in agriculture, Trimble's new ...

  Tags:Precision Farming

• Integrated management approaches to combat plant virus diseases

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Investigations by The University of Western Australia’s (UWA) Institute of Agriculture and Washington State University (WSU) in the USA have concluded that the...

• Thailand's Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives voted to ban Paraquat, Glyphosate and Chlorpyrifos

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Regulations

  A news released on 7 October 2019 from Thailand’s Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives office. Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives called a mee...

• Australian OGTR - Announcement of opening of Scheme Review Consultation

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Consultation on the recently released Issues Paper – Implementing Recommendations of the Third Review of the Gene Technology Scheme: Phase 1 Consultation (the ...

• Indian Govt urged to look into data protection for Pesticide Management Bill

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Regulations

  CropLife India

  The onus is on the government to address the concerns of the crop protection industry in the Pesticide Management Bill, which is on the agenda in the winter ses...

• Barenbrug USA include GET PLUS technology to select Master Series products

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Companies

  Barenbrug USA has now added GET PLUS technology to select Master Series products. GET PLUS adds beneficial, non-toxic, fungal endophytes that improve forage qua...

  Tags:Ornamental and Turf

• Kalium Lakes Board approves development of Beyondie SOP project

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Companies

  Kalium Lakes Limited

  The Board of Kalium Lakes has approved the full development of its 100% owned Beyondie sulfate of potash project (BSOPP) located 160km south east of Newman in W...

• Vive Crop Protection’s Midac FC insecticide got US approval

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Products

  Vive Crop Protection

  Potato and sugarbeet growers who want long-lasting control of sucking and chewing pests have a unique new tool. The US Environmental Protection Agency recently ...

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• Corteva, MicroMGx Collaborate to Accelerate the Development Microbial-Based Crop Protection Products

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Companies

  Corteva Agriscience

  Corteva Agriscience and MicroMGx announced a collaboration that aims to provide farmers a wider range of novel, microbial-based crop protection products.

• EFSA: Risk mitigation measures on cypermethrin

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The statement provides the options of exposure reduction and the extent to which a low risk to aquatic organisms, non-target arthropods and bees could be demons...

  Tags:Cypermethrin

• BASF launches Imtrex® Flowable fungicide for field crops in Japan

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Products

  BASF Japan

  BASF launched Imtrex Flowable, its innovative new fungicide for field crops, on October 1 in Japan. This new solution is highly effective in preventing and trea...

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• Zimbabwe adopts new strategy to protect indigenous seeds

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Zimbabwe’s has adopted a new strategic plan on native agricultural crops and wild plants that will, among other things, protect the rights of small farmers to ...

• Machine learning helps plant science turn over a new leaf

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Now, Salk researchers have helped speed up plant phenotyping even more, with machine-learning algorithms that teach a computer system to analyze three-dimension...

• 2019/20 Brazilian soybean planting off to slowest start in 6 years

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Markets

  The soybean planting is getting off to a slower than average start, but the soybean yields could still be OK if the weather during the growing season is benefic...

• Cargill India to invest $160 million in the next three years in new businesses

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Companies

  Cargill, Incorporated

  Marcel Smits, chairman and chief executive officer, Asia Pacific, Cargill Global food and agriculture major Cargill plans to invest $160 million out of the $...

• Haltermann Carless Caromax® Range: Supporting the Agrochemical formulations of the future

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Haltermann Carless (HCS Group) leading international provider of solutions for high-value specialty hydrocarbons. We currently operate state of the art refining...

• Biological Control Agents (BCA), a rising star

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Industrias Químicas del Vallés, S.A. (IQV)

  In a society committed to health and preserving the environment, farmers are increasingly choosing pesticides derived from natural materials.

• How incubators are disrupting the Indian agri-tech startup landscape

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Markets

  Technology has changed the way that businesses behave today. The Indian economy is home to over 56,000 startups with about 450 plus in the agri-tech space alone...

• Nidera Seeds closed its Miramar plant in Argentina

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Companies

  The firm Nidera Seeds announced the final closure of one of its production plants located in the Buenos Aires town of Miramar where it employed, between stable ...

• Despite consumer concerns, GMOs with genes removed expected to go on sale in Japan later this year

  Date：Oct. 9, 2019 Category：Markets

  Genetically modified food products using a specific kind of technology may hit store shelves in Japan within this year amid lingering consumer concerns, after a...

  Tags:GM crop

• Syngenta sues Seminis over patented watermelon claim

  Date：Oct. 8, 2019 Category：Companies

  Two Yolo County seed companies could go to court, after one filed a lawsuit against the other this week.

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing released in Ethiopia

  Date：Oct. 8, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety

• Glyphosate lawsuit in St. Louis delayed until February 2020

  Date：Oct. 8, 2019 Category：Regulations

  A pending U.S. lawsuit over claims related to Bayer's (BAYGn.DE) glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup has been delayed, the company said on last Sunday, with a co...

  Tags:Glyphosate

• IFC to invest in seed producer Mahyco India’s overseas unit

  Date：Oct. 8, 2019 Category：Companies

  International Finance Corporation (IFC) plans to make an equity investment of up to $20 million (Rs 141.82 crore at current exchange rates) in the overseas unit...

  Tags:Investment & Expansion

• Ceradis receives US EPA approval for new biofungicide Ceramax, for soy seed treatment

  Date：Oct. 8, 2019 Category：Products

  Ceradis B.V.

  Ceradis B.V. announces Ceradis’ first product registration in the USA, with the EPA granting the registration of CeraMax for seed treatment of soybeans. CeraMa...

• Top 20 Indian Agrochemical Companies in FY 2018-19: Backwards Integration, Forwards “OpenAg”

  Date：Oct. 8, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  FY 2018-19 was a challenging year to Indian agrochemical enterprises. Though the Indian economy continues to be one of the world’s fastest growing economies, t...