Viewpoint & Interview

• Annual Review: Large Acquisitions in Global Special Fertilizer Sector in 2018

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

  Paul Zheng

  In recent years, with the transformation of crop planting, the improvement in planting technologies and the growing demand by consumers for increased quality in...

• BRF: Committed to Being the Cornerstone for Customers to Achieve Efficient Registration

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

  Erwin Xue

  Bioscience Research Foundation (BRF) was founded by Dr. C. Tamilselvan, who is humble, multitalented and has massive knowledge in the field of science. Under hi...

• Digital model helps get right corn seed at right rate on right acres

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

  The Climate Corporation

  This year, it’s looking like planting is going to be late. And potentially cold. And definitely wet. The end of March is usually a time for farmers to be getti...

  Tags:Maize

• Will Advanta’s Igrowth sorghums be able to reverse the declining trend in the crop?

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

  ADVANTA SEEDS

  Buenos Aires, March 25th. Advanta Seeds Marketing and Development manager in Argentina, Tomás Sundblad, is really enthusiastic with its creature: the new hybri...

• Towards Greener Agrochemicals: Overview of Biopesticides Registration & Mammalian Toxicology Data Requirement

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

  Samir Pandya

  Generally, the global registration authorities tend to follow the lead established by the US EPA in determination of the relevant 2 guidelines (OCSPP guidelines...

• 'IFFCO Leading Farmers on the Path of Empowerment: Navin Choudhary, Chief Marketing Officer, IKSL

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

  Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO)

  Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) is one of India’s biggest cooperative society which is wholly owned by the Indian Cooperatives. Founded i...

• "Nufarm is able to fully meet the needs of the Brazilian farmer" - Interview with Nufarm's insecticide manager, Alexandre Manzini

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

  Nufarm Brasil Limited

  Alexandre Manzini, insecticide manager of the Australian company Nufarm in Brazil, recently granted an exclusive interview to AgroPages. While the focus of the...

• Q&A with Arama Kukutai: How advances in AgTech are reshaping farming

  Date：Mar. 22, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Activity in the agtech sector has skyrocketed over the last five years—marking its arrival as an important piece of the venture capital ecosystem, according to...

• Bayer’s Commercial Director talked about plans in Brazil after merger with Monsanto

  Date：Mar. 22, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  AgroPages exclusively interviewed Marcio Santos, Commercial Director of Bayer in Brazil, during the Expodireto Fair that was held this month in the state of Rio...

• Solving the “last mile” challenge of maize seeds in Africa

  Date：Mar. 21, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center)

  Agrodealers play a pivotal role in delivering the gains of the green revolution to millions of smallholders in Africa. Reaching even the most remote corners of ...

  Tags:Maize

• Syngenta projects higher billings in Brazil this year, says director for Latin America

  Date：Mar. 21, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Syngenta's Brazil operation will lead the agricultural inputs market in sales in 2019, according to Valdemar Fischer, regional director for Latin America. The e...

• Five Good Questions: Young Kim, CEO, Digital Harvest

  Date：Mar. 20, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Digital Harvest

  Digital Harvest is a data science company, exclusively focusing on agriculture. As Chief Executive Officer of Digital Harvest, Young Kim applies his 20+ years o...

• Rodrigo Ramírez, UPL Argentina: “Sell in a sustainable way”

  Date：Mar. 20, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  UPL Argentina

  Rodrigo Ramírez, manager of UPL Argentina, presented the objectives of the company and pointed out that it is necessary to provide other solutions. "Everyone i...

• Insight into innovative adjuvant technologies and initiatives on the formulation technology innovation

  Date：Mar. 20, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Grace Yuan

  Adjuvant are needed to manage inherent physical active ingredient properties and associated aspects and play an important role in designing and tuning of produc...

• What plans the third world largest inoculants company according to its VP

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

  Rizobacter

  It’s probably that this is not a well-known datum, but 21% of the global inoculants market is held by an Argentine company, Rizobacter.

  Tags:Seed treatment

• Organic carrot breeding delivers novel varieties, cutting-edge research

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

  The U.S. organic industry continues to grow, with sales of organic food reaching $45 billion in 2017 and the number of organic farms estimated at over 14,200, a...

  Tags:Seed breedingFruits and Vegetables

• 2018 Overview of Global GMO Development

  Date：Mar. 18, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Jason Zhang

  In the 22nd year of commercialization of GM crops in 2017, 24 countries grew 189.8 million hectares of GM crops – an increase of 4.7 million hectares (11.6 mil...

• Israeli growing agri-tech sector helps address global food security challenge

  Date：Mar. 18, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The Israeli agri-tech sector is expected to help deal with global food security challenge as it is growing fast in technologically innovative areas.

• Interview with João Giraldi: Adama invests in completing product portfolio to meet Brazilian farmers’ need

  Date：Mar. 18, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  ADAMA Brasil

  AgroPages exclusively interviewed João Giraldi, Portfolio Manager and head of Market Development for Adama in Brazil. He talks about the major solutions his co...

• Drought-tolerant crops to contribute to food security in Namibia

  Date：Mar. 15, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Farmers in Namibia now have new crop varieties of cowpea and sorghum that are more tolerant to drought and pests planted this year, thanks to nuclear technology...

• Drought-tolerant corn in the United States: Research, commercialization, and related crop production practices

  Date：Mar. 15, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Droughts are among the most frequent causes of crop yield losses, failures, and subsequent crop revenue losses across the world.

  Tags:Maize

• Gene-edited food quietly arrives in restaurant cooking oil

  Date：Mar. 14, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Calyxt

  Somewhere in the Midwest, a restaurant is frying foods with oil made from gene-edited soybeans. That’s according to the company making the oil, which says it’...

  Tags:SoybeanGene Editing

• 2019 Global Agribusiness M&A Outlook

  Date：Mar. 14, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Verdant Partners LLC

  Compared to the major consolidation events in 2016 and 2017, this past year could be considered relatively calm. Multinationals have reshuffled and are in the p...

• South America – An Important Agricultural Region for the Future

  Date：Mar. 14, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Verdant Partners LLC

  With vast land availability, rich water resources, and a relatively small population, the South American continent will remain a critical and growing region for...

• Data becomes cash crop for big agriculture

  Date：Mar. 14, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  For six generations, Ben Riensche’s family has tended corn and soybeans outside Jesup, a town of 2,500 on the windswept plains of eastern Iowa.

• End of tax rebate may raise Brazilian agri-input prices by 7.6%

  Date：Mar. 13, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The ICMS Agreement No. 100/1997, a covenant that reduces by 60% the Tax on the Circulation of Goods and Services (ICMS) in the operations of agricultural inputs...

• The AgTech Industry May Be Growing Up

  Date：Mar. 12, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The AgTech industry is continuing to mature, at least according to AgFunder’s latest AgriFood Tech Investing Report published on March 7. This “record breakin...

• First plant product of gene editing: A new soybean variety

  Date：Mar. 12, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  At the beginning of 2019, soybean oil with improved quality did took its place on the market shelves. The mentioned soybean oil contains several times less satu...

  Tags:SoybeanGene Editing

• Startups Lead the Innovations in Agriculture

  Date：Mar. 11, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Christina Xie

  In the past few years, the application of modern computer technology to the agricultural sector has been exciting for both agricultural practitioners and invest...

• Seed business starts small, expands worldwide

  Date：Mar. 11, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Vaughn Forbes started his seed business with $50 in the pantry of his home in 1976.Now, Forbes Seed and Grain has an added division, Pacific Seed Production, an...