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• Technology can reduce pesticide use by up to 25%, says Hexagon

  Date：Nov. 27, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Hexagon AB

  A survey by the agriculture division of multinational, Hexagon, a global developer of digital solutions, showed that the use of agrochemicals can be reduced by ...

• Promising new biocontrol for invasive weed silverleaf nightshade

  Date：Nov. 27, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Agriculture Victoria research scientists have identified a bug and a mite in America that could help tackle one of Australia’s worst agricultural weeds – silv...

• Koppert registers new biofungicide

  Date：Nov. 27, 2019 Category：Products

  Koppert Biological Systems（KOPPERT B.V.）

  Botrytis bunch/fruit rot/grey mold and Monilia brown rot can now be controlled in an effective and sustainable way with a non-synthetic fungicide that has been ...

• TENSAC: Deeply developing Argentina's biopesticide market and actively expanding its global presence

  Date：Nov. 27, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  TENSAC S.H.

  TENSAC is an Argentine company with a 29-year history, developing sustainable and innovative chemical solutions capable of satisfying specific demands of differ...

• Important information for plant breeders: Change in Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) fees regulation as of 1st April 2020

  Date：Nov. 27, 2019 Category：Regulations

  In order to ease plant breeders’ financial planning for the year 2020, we would like to inform all applicants that a decision has been taken by the European Co...

• U of Illinois economist forecasts US 2020 crop acreages

  Date：Nov. 27, 2019 Category：Markets

  The 2019 crop year will live long in the memory. A record amount of prevent plant acres, delayed harvest, and considerable dismay over USDA reports compounded t...

• Pairwise achieve key collaboration milestones with Bayer, accelerating product development

  Date：Nov. 26, 2019 Category：Companies

  Pairwise, a growing agriculture and food company, today announced the early completion of its development milestones in its collaboration with Bayer.

  Tags:Collaboration

• Initiative to create organic tomatoes that resist disease, taste good

  Date：Nov. 26, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  A multi-institution research initiative aims to breed new varieties of organic tomatoes resistant to foliar diseases and maintain the taste consumers want.

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• If Africa adopts biotech crops, will anti-GMO Europe retaliate against the continent’s most important trading partner?

  Date：Nov. 26, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  As the nations of Africa grapple with the regulation and commercialization of GMO crops, there is an underlying issue influencing the debate: Europe is a valuab...

  Tags:GM crop

• US-based KBR to supply critical equipment for HURL’s 2,200 MTPD plant

  Date：Nov. 26, 2019 Category：Companies

  US-based engineering firm KBR announced recently that it has been awarded two contracts by Toyo Engineering Corporation for the supply of an operator training s...

• Maharashtra: Two-member Central team visits Nashik to inspect crop loss

  Date：Nov. 26, 2019 Category：Markets

  A two-member team from the Union government on last Friday visited Nashik district in Maharashtra to assess crop loss due to unseasonal rains last month. The te...

• Heliae, Agricola Cerro Prieto to conduct world's largest water sustainability trial

  Date：Nov. 26, 2019 Category：Companies

  Heliae

  Heliae Development, LLC, a leading microbial-based product development company, and Peru-based agriculture group Agricola Cerro Prieto (ACP) announced the launc...

• Mexico bans shipment of glyphosate pesticide

  Date：Nov. 26, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The Mexican government says it won’t allow a 1,000-ton shipment of the pesticide glyphosate into the country, citing health and environmental concerns.

• Scottish pesticide use goes down in 2018

  Date：Nov. 26, 2019 Category：Markets

  Pesticide use on arable crops grown in Scotland has declined, according to a new report from the National Statistics Office.

• New chickpea breeding protocol promises to bring down varietal development time from 12 years to 6 years

  Date：Nov. 26, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  ICRISAT’s chickpea researchers have developed a breeding protocol that holds the potential to create new varieties of chickpea in half-time.

• Asian Seed Congress Turns 26 In Kuala Lumpur

  Date：Nov. 26, 2019 Category：Markets

  Organized jointly by the Asia and Pacific Seed Alliance (APSA) and the National Seed Association Malaysia (NSAM), the region’s premier seed industry meeting wi...

• USQ researcher to collaborate with India on climate change project

  Date：Nov. 26, 2019 Category：Markets

  A USQ researcher will use his expertise to help Indian citizens and farmers tackle the impacts of climate change.

• Govt frames new rules for sale of insecticides

  Date：Nov. 26, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The Punjab Government has framed new rules and regulations for the sale of insecticides and pesticides making it mandatory for the dealers to mention the name o...

• Seeds of misfortune

  Date：Nov. 26, 2019 Category：Markets

  Farmers’ bodies are concerned that the proposed draft Seeds Bill, 2019, and the Pesticide Management Bill could weaken farmers’ rights and increase corporate ...

• Australian APVMA improves regulatory processes in 2018–19

  Date：Nov. 26, 2019 Category：Markets

  In 2018–19, the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) improved regulatory processes with 85 per cent of applications processed withi...

• Indigram Labs signs MoU with a leading agri-business incubator in Africa

  Date：Nov. 25, 2019 Category：Companies

  Indigram Labs Foundation (ILF), a technology business incubator and accelerator has signed MOU with Excel Hort Consult Agribusiness Incubator (EHCAI), Uganda du...

• Rallis India: Good stock to buy from a portfolio perspective

  Date：Nov. 25, 2019 Category：Companies

  Crop protection chemicals play a major role in increasing agriculture productivity as they help in minimising plant diseases, weeds, and other pests that damage...

• Longergreen and ARVENSIS cooperate to develop China's special fertilizer market

  Date：Nov. 25, 2019 Category：Companies

  Arvensis Agro S.A.

  On November 22nd, ARVENSIS AGRO S.A. and Shenzhen Longergreen Ecological Technology Co., Ltd. held a press conference to announce the formal cooperation between...

• Brazilian court suspends 63 pesticides released by Mapa

  Date：Nov. 25, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The registration of 63 pesticides released by the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Mapa) under Act No. 62 for 13th September, 2019, was ...

• Seed sector expresses disappointment over stalled negotiations on exchange of genetic resources

  Date：Nov. 25, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  International Seed Federation

  On Saturday evening, Nov. 16, the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (ITPGRFA) concluded its 8th ses...

• China's agricultural science performance ranks second in world

  Date：Nov. 25, 2019 Category：Markets

  China's performance in agricultural research frontier, agricultural sci-tech papers and patents ranks second in the world, according to the Chinese Academy of A...

• Expanding India’s crop diversity could boost access to vital nutrients for 200 million people, study shows

  Date：Nov. 25, 2019 Category：Markets

  There has been a substantial increase in food production over the last 50 years, but it has been accompanied by a narrowing in the diversity of cultivated crops...

• Paraguay soy farmers worried about weather and potential taxes

  Date：Nov. 25, 2019 Category：Markets

  It has been a frustrating planting season for soybean farmers in Paraguay. Irregular rains during September and October slowed the soybean planting resulting in...

• Sony expands the capabilities and market presence of its Smart Agriculture Solution

  Date：Nov. 25, 2019 Category：Companies

  Sony Electronics Inc. announced a new Version 2.0 update for its Smart Agriculture Solution aimed at providing agricultural customers with new AI-based imaging ...

  Tags:Precision Farming

• Members of the European Parliament slam gene-editing court ruling as damaging for SMEs

  Date：Nov. 25, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  It is much easier for larger companies to implement new GM legislation, but it’s the smaller ones that are most affected by the recent gene-editing ruling, the...

  Tags:Gene Editing