Viewpoint & Interview

• Brazil’s big agricultural strategy: pesticides

  Date：Jan. 24, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Last year, the Brazilian National Cancer Institute expected to see about 600,000 new cases of cancer, now Brazil’s second biggest killer. That’s a 75 percent ...

• Kenya: lessons on how to effectively tackle insect invasions

  Date：Jan. 23, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Kenyan food production and grazing land is under threat from a huge desert locust invasion. The insects are currently in two counties in northern Kenya and are ...

• European Commission in search of ‘robust response’ to gene editing challenge

  Date：Jan. 22, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The EU executive has already prepared the ground for a new initiative on gene editing to overhaul the current GMO legislation, EU agriculture commissioner Phil ...

  Tags:Gene Editing

• Interview with the Executive Director, Shri Rajendra Trivedi, National Seed Association of India, New Delhi

  Date：Jan. 22, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Seed is Life! Seed is Culture,Diversity,Tradition and Knowledge.Seed is about Resilence and Survival!

• Why it is critical to transforming Indian agriculture

  Date：Jan. 22, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The need to scale up agriculture is getting more acute with rising global population. As per UN, by 2050, the world will have 10 billion people, with India acco...

• Limagrain: Correct variety choice improves maize success

  Date：Jan. 22, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Taking a risk assessment approach to maize variety choice can help ensure the objectives of the crop are achieved and the return on investment is maximised.

  Tags:Maize

• Is hemp the new soybean?

  Date：Jan. 21, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  CBD is the hemp flavor of the hour, getting the most attention because it’s where many farmers have made money on hemp

  Tags:Soybean

• AG criticizes US EPA over pesticide approval

  Date：Jan. 21, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed comments today criticizing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its inadequate risk assessment of...

• Good to-the-point answers: "How's your business with China in 2019?"

  Date：Jan. 21, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  There are answers brilliantly which can be published as independent articles. The majority of the participants mentioned their worrying about the coming increas...

• “There are many opportunities in the Brasilian market” - Interview with Marcelo Habe (Marketing Director of Nufarm Brasil)

  Date：Jan. 21, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Nufarm Brasil Limited

  We spoke exclusively to Marcelo Habe, who will take over this month as the new Marketing Director of Nufarm Brasil. He talked about his time at the company, as ...

• Improved sorghum hybrids for 2020

  Date：Jan. 20, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  New sorghum hybrids are developed and released by seed companies at a pace that tends to be slower than some other crops. However, in the last two years, the in...

• Overview of Global Stabilized Nitrogen Fertilizer Development, Mainstream Products

  Date：Jan. 20, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The increasing use of nitrogen fertilizers always follows the modernization of agriculture. However, only 40% to 60% of the total amount of nitrogen fertilizers...

• Burkina Faso “farmer of the year” calls for return of Bt cotton

  Date：Jan. 20, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Wiledio Naboho, the 2019 Alliance for Science Farmer of the Year, is mounting fresh pressure on the Burkina Faso government to permit the re-introduction of gen...

• Market potential and challenges in soil amendment sector — How TRADECORP respond

  Date：Jan. 17, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Tradecorp Nutri-Performance

  AgroPages recently invited Tradecorp to talk about market potential and challenges in soil amendment sector, particularly for humid acids, and how they respond ...

• US Agricultural Retailers Association supports phase one of US-China Trade Agreement

  Date：Jan. 17, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA) Board of Directors Chairman Rod Wells of GROWMARK attended the signing of the much-anticipated Phase One trade agre...

• Trends and tips for variety selection

  Date：Jan. 15, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The breeding progress is more in maize than in other crops. In a German study, the annual yield increase of 1.6 dt / ha was measured in the official tests of th...

• California loses chlorpyrifos: What’s next?

  Date：Jan. 15, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Despite the Trump Administration’s relaxing of regulatory positions on pesticides — notably the EPA decision over the summer to keep chlorpyrifos — the longe...

  Tags:BanInsecticidesSoybeanMaize

• (R)evolution in plant breeding: new options for better photosynthesis

  Date：Jan. 14, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  It seems so logical: each plant carries chloroplasts that contribute to the optimum growth and development of the plant. At least that is what has always been a...

• Agri-inputs industry in India: Time for a ‘Tech-Makeover’

  Date：Jan. 14, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Raghavan Sampathkumar

  India is evolving faster than ever before with the number of monthly active internet users fast approaching the half a billion mark (451 million, to be precise)...

• Changing face of wheat

  Date：Jan. 13, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  When conference realignment upended collegiate athletics a few years ago, some schools lost while others won. It’s much like the latest round of large agribusi...

  Tags:wheat

• Canada: Rules on gene engineering threaten crop advancements

  Date：Jan. 13, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  While plant breeders around the world embrace new gene-editing techniques to improve crops, response from regulatory agencies in different nations range from qu...

  Tags:GM cropGene Editing

• 2020 Mega Trends: Advanced Agronomics

  Date：Jan. 10, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Following a decade with the introduction of societal shifters like the smart phone and rapid expansion of social media, 2020 could be the starting block for the...

• Bayer-Monsanto: Power of Two

  Date：Jan. 9, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In India, the world's fourth-largest producer of agrochemicals, things have been calm. The merger, in fact, is progressing smoothly, with Bayer and Monsanto man...

• An Integrated Approach to Seed Treatment

  Date：Jan. 3, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  For the European market, renewed and sustainable success lies not with individual products but with complete solutions that combine the best in seed treatment t...

  Tags:Seed treatment

• Bayer's Liam Condon on agriculture's upcoming modern miracles

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

  When a technology comes along that unlocks a new way of thinking about an old problem, we marvel at it as a "modern miracle." Growing up in Ireland, I know that...

• Euralis director: Seville produces more than 40% of the Group's oilseeds

  Date：Dec. 31, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Seville is a benchmark for the production of oilseeds for the French group Euralis , which chose this province as an investment destination, buying its seed act...

  Tags:Oilseed Rape

• PMFAI responds to Indian Government’s Industrial Policy Draft

  Date：Dec. 31, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Pesticides Manufacturers & Formulators Assocoation of India(PMFAI)

  Given below are the specific proposals in detail for consideration by Mr. Pradip Dave, the president of Pesticides Manufacturers & Formulators Association of In...

• Future of maize: Introduce hybrid varieties

  Date：Dec. 30, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  A recently released statistical information by the Nepal Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) shows that maize is grown on 954,000 hectares...

  Tags:Maize

• Australia: Breeding for dry times

  Date：Dec. 30, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The first was that, for as far as my eye could see, the landscape was brown and dry. I saw empty fields ready to be planted with crops only if the rain comes. I...

• AI technology counts corn tassels for more accurate yield predictions

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

  Every season, corn growers try to predict their yield. In the past, they were forced to rely on outdated and imprecise methods of counting and estimating. Howev...