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• Africa’s SMEs key to increasing access to improved seed varieties by smallholder farmersNov. 30, 2018

  For Africa to realize its dream of attaining food and nutrition security, and improved livelihoods of its populations, the private sector must play a key role in agricult...

• Bunge names Robert Coviello Chief Growth and Strategy OfficerNov. 30, 2018

• Scoular names Andrew Kenny Chief Financial OfficerNov. 30, 2018

• Nunhems pays attention to the entire chain in vegetable breedingNov. 30, 2018

  Every day 500 million people eat vegetables that originate from seed that was developed by Nunhems, recently owned by the German chemical company BASF.

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• Bayer is cutting 12,000 jobs in the wake of its Monsanto dealNov. 30, 2018

  Bayer plans to slash thousands of jobs as part of a corporate overhaul following its acquisition of Monsanto.

• US EPA granted label expansion for Nichino America’s PQZ insecticideNov. 30, 2018

  PQZ insecticide from Nichino America, Inc. has been granted a U.S. EPA label expansion for food crop use, the company announced yesterday. PQZ is a new insecticide for co...

  Tags:Label expansionInsecticidesPyrifluquinazon

• Vestaron Corporation announces a novel IRAC mode of action for its SPEAR bioinsecticideNov. 30, 2018

• Syngenta scales back North American hybrid wheat developmentNov. 29, 2018

  After expectations for the release of hybrid wheat in North America around 2020-21, Syngenta said it will focus commercialization on Europe while scaling back late-stage ...

  Tags:wheat

• 95% of China's Soybean Imports in October 2018 came from BrazilNov. 29, 2018

• Report forecasts how climate change will impact agricultureNov. 29, 2018

• India: ‘Leveraging new tech will boost agri sector’Nov. 29, 2018

  The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in association with Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University (PJTSAU) organised an Agri-Digital Connect Wo...

• Law project that seeks to reduce agrochemical use advances in Brazilian ParliamentNov. 29, 2018

• SAPEC AGRO rebrands as ASCENZANov. 29, 2018

  As of today, 28 November, SAPEC AGRO has officially adopted the ASCENZA brand name, reinforcing its market presence with a new positioning and image.

• Farmers edge, Richardson Pioneer announce precision ag partnershipNov. 29, 2018

• Florimond Desprez inaugurates a new research station in Argentina to develop future wheat varieties for South American marketsNov. 29, 2018

  Florimond Desprez has been interested in the South American cereals market since the beginning of the 2000s and has been testing regularly since then, through the company...

  Tags:Investment & Expansionwheat

• Control of pesticides to improve the competitiveness of Vietnamese agricultural productsNov. 29, 2018

• New and larger location: KWS is growing in Berlin as wellNov. 29, 2018

  KWS is growing in Berlin, too: The more than 160-year-old plant breeding company is establishing a new location in the German capital, with room for 350 employees to begi...

  Tags:Investment & Expansion

• New R&D greenhouse facility for Syngenta in Enkhuizen, The NetherlandsNov. 29, 2018

• Future of Pakistan’s economy linked to cottonNov. 29, 2018

  A two-day Sino-Pak international conference on “Innovation in Cotton Breeding and Biotechnology” commenced at the Muhammad Nawaz Sharif University of Agriculture (MNSUA...

  Tags:Cotton

• AgEagle signs one of the largest specialty crop producers in North AmericaNov. 29, 2018

• Bayer US names Albert Mitchell, Michael Parrish to senior leadership rolesNov. 29, 2018

• AgriThority® appoints Regional Managers to meet growing demand for product development in EuropeNov. 29, 2018

• CropLife Australia: APVMA recovered performance welcomedNov. 29, 2018

• Nigeria launches new varieties of Bt cottonNov. 29, 2018

• New pulse breeder targets high yields and market suitabilityNov. 29, 2018

  Targeting stable high yields and breeding characteristics that suit a range of markets is the focus taken by Limagrain’s new senior pulse breeder, Will Pillinger.

• French government launches Ecophyto II + consultation to reduce reliance on pesticidesNov. 29, 2018

• Paul Thomson PhD joins Vive Crop Protection Board of DirectorsNov. 28, 2018

  Vive Crop Protection welcomes Paul Thomson to its Board of Directors effective immediately.

• COMPO(CHINA) holds marketing strategy releasing conference in Guizhou, ChinaNov. 28, 2018

• Argentina replaces China as biggest U.S. soybean buyerNov. 28, 2018

• To fulfill biofuels’ promise, scientists boost plant oils with gene editingNov. 28, 2018

  If you’ve ever squeezed raw sunflower seeds or peanuts, you know if you press hard enough, you can collect oil from them. The same is true of seeds from the flowering pl...

  Tags:Gene Editing