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• Bharat Rasayan standalone net profit rises 67.05% in the June 2019 quarter

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Companies

  Bharat Rasayan Ltd.

  Net profit of Bharat Rasayan rose 67.05% to Rs 41.73 crore in the quarter ended June 2019 as against Rs 24.98 crore during the previous quarter ended June 2018....

• Maldives: Pesticides Bill submitted to Parliament

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The Maldivian government submitted a bill to the Parliament regarding setting standards for the import, use, production, export and proper disposal of pesticide...

• IFFCO the top most company in Fertilizer and Agro Chemicals industries ranked No.1 by Fortune India 500

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Companies

  Fortune India 500 yet again ranked IFFCO as the top most company in Fertilizer and Agro Chemicals industries in the country. Besides this, in overall companies ...

• UPL to invest US$ 200 million in Brazil in 5 years - Interview with UPL Marketing Director in Brazil, Marcelo Zanchi

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In an exclusive interview with AgroPages, UPL marketing director Marcelo Zanchi outlined the main changes planned by the company following the acquisition of Ar...

• “Eyes on Latin America market: Koppert invests in inoculants” - Interview with Gustavo Herrmann

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The inoculant market is estimated at 120 million doses per year in Mercosur. As it is interested in this potential, Koppert has recently acquired the Argentine ...

• India: Maharashtra Chief Minister panel to seek views on use of GM technology

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Markets

  The high power committee of chief ministers headed by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis for the transformation of Indian agriculture at its second me...

• US Approves New GMO Soybean Variety from Argentina

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Markets

  Bioceres

  The Argentine biotechnology company Bioceres announced last week that they received approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to market a new drought res...

  Tags:GM cropSoybean

• A double-digit investment in the agricultural sector is needed to transform agriculture in Nigeria, says the Director General of IITA

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

  A double-digit investment in the agricultural sector backed by a vibrant rural infrastructural network will help states in Nigeria to accelerate the transformat...

• ‘Agri-input distributors in Brazil must use e-commerce’, says Luft Solutions

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  “E-commerce is a sales channel that cannot be ignored, as it accounted for 12% of worldwide sales last year and moved $61 billion in goods in Brazil in 2018, a...

• Environmental groups file second lawsuit against US EPA's dicamba use approval

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Markets

  The agency is facing its second lawsuit from environmental advocates who allege that US EPA officials ignored scientific evidence and complaints from agricultur...

  Tags:Dicamba

• California advances ban on insecticide chlorpyrifos

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Regulations

  California regulators on August 14 took formal legal steps to ban a widely used pesticide that had been rescued from elimination by the Trump administration des...

  Tags:Chlorpyrifos

• Lallemand Plant Care grows its granular inoculant line-up in Canada

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Products

  Lallemand Plant Care

  Lallemand Plant Care has expanded its soybean, and pea and lentil inoculant portfolio in Canada with the launch of LALFIX® Duo FS Soybean and LALFIX® Duo FS P...

  Tags:Inoculant

• Pioneer Expands Pioneer Brand Enlist E3 Soybeans Availability for 2020 Planting

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Products

  Corteva Agriscience's seed business, Pioneer, announced expanded availability of Pioneer® brand Enlist E3™ soybeans for 2020. Varieties will be available acro...

• Plant Health Care’s PREtec field trials show great effectiveness against Asian Soybean Rust in Brazil

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Products

  Plant Health Care, Inc.(PHC)

  Plant Health Care®, a leading provider of novel patent-protected biological products to global agriculture markets, provides the following update in relation t...

• Front Range Biosciences enters collaborative licensing agreement with Steep Hill, acquires genomics research & development team

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Companies

  Front Range Biosciences® ("FRB") announced today that it has entered into a collaborative licensing agreement with Steep Hill and is acquiring the Steep Hill G...

  Tags:AcquisitionCollaboration

• Discovery of a bottleneck relief in photosynthesis may have a major impact on food crops

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Scientists have found how to relieve a bottleneck in the process by which plants transform sunlight into food, which may lead to an increase in crop production.

• Explained: How geographical indication(GI) can boost India's agriculture exports

  Date：Aug. 16, 2019 Category：Markets

  An initiative India should take is branding agri-products through steps such as geographical indication (GI), especially for organically-produced commodities th...

• Thailand Minister wants paraquat, glyphosate and chlorpyrifos banned this year

  Date：Aug. 16, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Toxic chemicals used as herbicide, namely paraquat, glyphosate and insecticide, chlorpyrifos, must be banned within this year, Public Health Minister Anutin Cha...

• KingAgroot’s Jiangsu Huai’an new factory begins operating, six new compounds to be launched over next five years

  Date：Aug. 16, 2019 Category：Companies

  KingAgroot launched its Jiangsu Huai’an factory in August, 2019, which is located in the Huai’an Salt Chemical New Material Industrial Park, Jiangsu Province,...

• Rijk Zwaan to launch a new snack brand at Asia Fruit Logistica

  Date：Aug. 16, 2019 Category：Companies

  ‘Kicks’ is the name of Rijk Zwaan’s new snack brand – a total concept for the growing market for healthy snacks which the vegetable breeding company is laun...

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• KWS receives approval in France for high–yielding winter rapeseed varieties with new resistance

  Date：Aug. 16, 2019 Category：Companies

  Adelmo KWS and Feliciano KWS, two high-yielding winter rapeseed varieties that are resistant to fungal infection caused by Phoma, are now available in France fo...

  Tags:Oilseed Rape

• 'There are opportunities for Brazil in China', says Vitor Raposo

  Date：Aug. 16, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  During the 9th Andav Congress held this week in the city of São Paulo (Brazil), AgroPages had the opportunity to speak to various players in the agrochemical i...

• Production of agrochemicals in Argentina rose 13% in first half of 2019

  Date：Aug. 16, 2019 Category：Markets

  The production of agrochemicals in Argentina rose 12.7% in the first six months of 2019, after having fallen 14.1% in 2018, while the imports of the sector grew...

  Tags:AgriData

• PM Modi calls upon farmers to cut usage of chemical fertilisers, pesticides

  Date：Aug. 16, 2019 Category：Markets

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi made an emotional appeal to farmers to reduce use of chemical fertilisers and pesticides by 10-25% to save the soil. He invoked the...

• China approves wheat, soybean imports from Russia

  Date：Aug. 16, 2019 Category：Markets

  China has approved wheat imports from the Russian region of Kurgan, the Chinese customs office said last week, bringing Russia a step closer to its goal of dram...

• American Vanguard Reports Second Quarter and Mid-Year 2019 Results

  Date：Aug. 16, 2019 Category：Companies

  American Vanguard Corporation （AMVAC)

  American Vanguard Corporation (NYSE:AVD), announced financial results for the quarter and half-year ended June 30, 2019.

• Canada proposes to approval BASF’s Revysol fungicide

  Date：Aug. 16, 2019 Category：Products

  Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA), under the authority of the Pest Control Products Act, is proposing registration for the sale and use ...

  Tags:mefentrifluconazole

• 2020 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics focuses on accelerating innovation in corn hybrid development

  Date：Aug. 16, 2019 Category：Companies

  Syngenta and the Analytics Society of INFORMS today launched the 2020 Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics, a competition that seeks analytical approaches to im...

  Tags:Maize

• Discovery could pave the way for disease-resistant rice crops

  Date：Aug. 16, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Researchers have uncovered an unusual protein activity in rice that can be exploited to give crops an edge in the evolutionary arms race against rice blast dise...

  Tags:Rice

• India: Time to seed the world

  Date：Aug. 16, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  For better prosperity of the agriculture sector, the Government must allow farmers market access and promote Indian varieties globally