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• Bee Vectoring Technologies Granted Patent by European Patent Office For Biological Fungicide CR-7

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Products

  Bee Vectoring Technology (BVT)

  Bee Vectoring Technologies International Inc. (TSXV: BEE) (OTCQB: BEVVF) (CVE:BEE) today announced that the European Patent Office (EPO) has granted a patent fo...

• Atanor Argentina launches herbicide Odisei, based on Methyl Sulfometuron, Metsulfuron

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Products

  Atanor S.C.A. (Albaugh Argentina)

  Last month, Atanor Argentina officially launched the herbicide, Odisei, which is recommended for the control of broadleaf weeds and annual grasses during the ch...

• India Pesticide firms seek sops to cut China import

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Markets

  According to the manufacturers, they need at least two years to become self-sufficient provided the government supports them with a special package.

• Time to go for innovative technology to improve Indian farming

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  There is an urgent need to up the game in Indian agriculture which can both feed its own people and export to other countries.

• Agriculture is the key to India’s prosperity

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Markets

  A government initiative called e-NAM (e- National Agricultural Market) is an online trading portal that unites farmers all over the country by means of existing...

• Syngenta launches rodenticide Klerat Block XT in Spain

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Products

  Syngenta Spain

  Syngenta Spain organized a virtual seminar to present, to its distributors, customers and professionals in the pest control sector, its new rodenticide, Klerat ...

• IAF develops locust control system for Mi-17 choppers

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Markets

  The Indian Air Force has indigenously designed and developed an pesticide spraying tool for Mi-17 choppers -- the Airborne Locust Control System (ALCS) -- to sa...

• RCF has made available over 2 lakh MT of imported fertilizers for the kharif season in India

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Companies

  RCF plants have remained operational & sufficient quantity of production of its fertilizers was done. Besides its manufactured fertilizers, RCF has also made av...

• Bayer forges ahead with new crops resistant to 5 herbicides

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Companies

  Despite lawsuits and regulations, the agrichemical company is developing new genetically engineered corn designed to work with five herbicides, including glypho...

• Swarming Locusts (Grasshoppers) Worries Argentina and Brazil

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Markets

  Argentina is now dealing with swarms of grasshoppers in the northeastern provinces of the country.Farmers in southern Brazil are concerned about potential damag...

• Overview of Aerial Application of Pesticide Formulation & Adjuvant Technologies Launched in China

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In 2019, China's aerial pesticide application sector ushered in a boom period. As of December 2019, the number of China's aerial application UAV reached 50,000 ...

• India CIBRC 418th meeting: 9 TC and 7 Formulation registrations got approved

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Markets

  At the meeting, 9 registrations of pesticide technical and 7 formulation products, including 5 herbicides, 3 insecticides/acaricides, 4 fungicides and 4 bio-pro...

• Nufarm limits manufacturing to weather pandemic blow

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Companies

  Nufarm Australia Ltd

  Australia’s Nufarm Ltd said on Tuesday it would cease making insecticides and fungicides at its local site and reduce herbicide manufacturing in Austria, less ...

• An overview of pesticides registered in China for application on cotton

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Markets

  As of 9th June, 2020, a total of 2,990 pesticide products were registered for use on cotton that will still stay within the valid period, including 2,117 (70.8%...

• AI to speed up seed germination testing process

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Researchers have developed a new tool to carry out one of agriculture’s more challenging tasks - seed germination testing. SeedGerm – based on machine learnin...

• Taranis becomes UPL’s exclusive partner for sugarcane scouting in Brazil

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Companies

  Taranis

  Taranis has announced its agreement with UPL Ltd., a multinational agrochemical company and one of the five largest agricultural solutions companies worldwide, ...

  Tags:Sugarcane

• Peru's Senasa promotes biopesticides and grants ‘Green Certificate’

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The National Agrarian Health Service of Peru (Senasa) is promoting the use of biological control agents ACB to make pest control more sustainable in prioritized...

• Africa Watch: South Africa, Egypt rank top two for importing Clethodim

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Products

  Drake Liu

  Many readers mentioned that they want to see an analysis on Clethodim, so in this issue, we will analyze the chemical. But we will not only focus on South Afric...

  Tags:Clethodim

• Syngenta proactively engaging Indian farmer more than government departments

  Date：Jul. 1, 2020 Category：Companies

  Syngenta India Limited

  Syngenta has designed crop-specific integrated solutions or “protocols” for paddy, maize/corn, cotton, chilli and tomato grown in India. These basically guide...

• India doubles crop plantings, raising fertilizer demand

  Date：Jul. 1, 2020 Category：Markets

  The country's farmers have planted more than 31.56mn hectares (ha) (315,600km²) in the kharif sowing season as of 26 June, up from 15.45mn ha during the same p...

• Drones to be used at night to fight the locust swarms: Indian agriculture ministry

  Date：Jul. 1, 2020 Category：Markets

  As the locusts swarms invade in the country are increasing in unprecedented level, government is looking for different ways to fight this crisis. The Department...

• AgBiome secures patent protection for new Connate biocontrol product line in the US

  Date：Jul. 1, 2020 Category：Products

  AgBiome, LLC.

  AgBiome®, a leader in developing innovative products from the Earth’s microbial communities, announced a recent patent directed toward the Connate™ product l...

• India sees above average monsoon rainfall in June, accelerating crop sowing

  Date：Jul. 1, 2020 Category：Markets

  India saw 18% more rainfall than average in June as the monsoon covered the entire country nearly two weeks earlier than usual, the state-run weather office sai...

• Centre urged to ban 27 pesticides in India

  Date：Jul. 1, 2020 Category：Markets

  ​The Pesticide Action Network (PAN) India has requested the Centre to implement total ban on 27 toxic pesticides, proposed already, and give priority to people...

• UK’s Fera adds new pests to the Plant Health Risk Register

  Date：Jul. 1, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Fera has recently added a number of pests to the Risk Register. All of these pests were added due to their listing in the new Plant Health legislation which cam...

• Corteva Agriscience Acquires Full Ownership of PhytoGen Seed Company, LLC Joint Venture

  Date：Jul. 1, 2020 Category：Companies

  Corteva Agriscience

  Corteva, Inc. (NYSE: CTVA) announced on Tuesday the Company signed an agreement with J.G. Boswell Company to purchase its ownership interest in PhytoGen Seed Co...

• Bayer’s Rejuvra™ herbicide receives US EPA approval

  Date：Jul. 1, 2020 Category：Products

  Bayer CropScience U.S.

  The Vegetation Management business within Bayer CropScience LP, announces that Rejuvra™ herbicide was approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA...

• Russia develops first heavy duty cargo drone with capacity of 1,322 lbs take-off weight for agricultural purposes

  Date：Jul. 1, 2020 Category：Products

  Last month, Russian drone company Braeron announced the imminent start of sales in July of the Braeron unmanned aerial vehicle. The company specializes in indus...

• 'COVID-19: Lessons that we learnt during lockdown on agri-supply-chain', Bayer CropScience India

  Date：Jul. 1, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The silver lining for Indian agriculture was the rapid digital transformation, which saw Indian farmers turning to tech-enabled platforms. While digital tools f...

• Syngenta Group launches new Good Growth Plan to boost agricultural sector

  Date：Jul. 1, 2020 Category：Companies

  Syngenta Crop Protection AG

  The Syngenta Group recently launched its new Good Growth Plan, placing the fight against climate change and biodiversity loss at the core of agriculture's recov...