Viewpoint & Interview

• Use of agrochemicals in Uruguay fell by 29% since 2013-2014 harvest

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

  According to Federico Montes, Director of the General Directorate of Agricultural Services (DGSA), at the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries, (MGA...

• Australia: 60 Minutes glyphosate coverage cops a pasting from farm lobby groups

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

  A number of state farmer organisations and the crop protection sector have slammed the current affairs program '60 Minutes' for what they claim is inaccurate an...

  Tags:Glyphosate

• GMO, CRISPR-edited crops can cut pesticide use—if environmental activists do not block them

  Date：Sep. 17, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In 2017, University of Florida plant geneticists Zhonglin Mou and Kevin Folta, along with their team of graduate students, announced a new method to fight commo...

  Tags:GM cropGene Editing

• Insecticide ‘Closer’ will be available soon in Brazil - Interview with Thomas Scott, Corteva's Insecticide Leader

  Date：Sep. 17, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Corteva Agriscience recently launched the insecticide, “Closer SC,” which just received commercial approval in Brazil. Formulated from the active technology, ...

  Tags:Sulfoxaflor

• FMC launches nematicide Presence, organic seed treatment product - Exclusive interview with Adelino Thomazini

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

  FMC recently launched its new product, “Presence,” which is the first microbiological nematicide in the Brazilian market approved for use on seeds. The produc...

• BASF reveals details of new insecticide Inscalis - Exclusive interview with Luiz Straioto

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

  In this exclusive interview with AgroPages, Luis Fernando Straioto, BASF's Cotton and Bean Marketing Manager, explained the details of the launch of its insecti...

• NAAA: Five facts you need to know about aerial application and UVAs

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

  Over the last few years, the National Agricultural Aviation Association (NAAA) has consistently needed to set the record straight about inaccurate and/or mislea...

• Climate change threatens future of farming in Europe

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

  Adverse impacts of climate change are already being felt across Europe. Extreme weather, including recent heatwaves in many parts of the EU are already causing ...

• 8 European agricultural drone startups you should know about in 2019

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

  Today, agriculture is all about high precision and high speed. In the past decade, precision farming has witnessed unprecedented growth across the world.

• Why companies are lobbying to push for hybrid paddy seeds in India

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

  The Federation of Seed Industry of India (FSII), a lobby group for private seed companies, recently organised a closed-door meeting in Delhi to push for hybrid ...

  Tags:Rice

• Farmers’ contribution will be significant in making India $5-trillion economy: Agri Minister

  Date：Sep. 10, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Farmers should focus on developing agri-allied activities such as animal husbandry, bee-keeping and horticulture to double their incomes by 2022, Union Agricult...

• The Future of Farming? No Sun, No Soil, But Lots of Data

  Date：Sep. 10, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Humans have farmed for thousands of years, but do we have any idea what we’re doing?

• 'Agri sector to drive social, economic transformation in India'

  Date：Sep. 6, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The agriculture sector will be at the centre-stage of innovation and will lead India towards overall social and economic transformation by 2020, R Chandra Babu,...

• India's agro-chemical industry needs to ease these growing pains

  Date：Sep. 5, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Every business has its challenges and the agro-chemical industry is no exception to this rule. On the face of it, the industry is plagued by poor uptake of farm...

• Lawmakers urge US EPA to rethink use of antibiotics on citrus trees

  Date：Sep. 5, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  US lawmakers are urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to rethink its position on the use of two medically important antibiotics to treat a disease a...

• “We will build a new factory in 2020,” says Wladimir Chaga, President of Brandt do Brasil

  Date：Sep. 4, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Wladimir Chaga, president of Brandt do Brasil, spoke exclusively to AgroPages about the company's expansion plans in the country. While some R$20 million will b...

• EuroChem CEO Ostbo sees growth from core market, not specialties

  Date：Sep. 4, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

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  The new chief of EuroChem Group AG, the fertilizer producer owned by Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, sees traditional nutrients rather than super specia...

• All Indigo solutions will be in Brazil in 2 years - Interview with Dario Maffei, Indigo Vice President of Global Markets Hedge

  Date：Sep. 4, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Dario Maffei, Indigo's Vice President of the Global Markets Hedge, has a degree from Carlson School of Management and Birckbeck, University of London. Since the...

• Genome editing, gene drives, and synthetic biology: Will they contribute to disease-resistant crops, and who will benefit?

  Date：Sep. 4, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Ensuring the access of small-scale farmers to products and potential benefits from genetic engineering (GE) technologies for agriculture will require concerted ...

• Education, politics, religion may have no impact on our acceptance of GMOs

  Date：Sep. 3, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Today, there’s a fierce debate about whether GMOs are safe to eat or a benefit to the environment.

  Tags:GM crop

• “Production quality significantly affects biological control” - Interview with Professor José Roberto Postali Parra

  Date：Sep. 3, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  José Roberto Postali Parra, Professor of the Department of Entomology and Acarology of the “Luiz de Queiroz” School of Agriculture (Esalq / USP), is one of t...

• Argentina’s agrochemical sector during election year: Interview with Patrícia Karlikowski, DVA Agro Argentina

  Date：Sep. 2, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  AgroPages exclusively interviewed Patrícia Karlikowski from DVA Agro Argentina, who spoke about the market, the industry and the current agrochemical registrat...

• Mexican officials tout their response to Panama disease on bananas

  Date：Sep. 2, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In an article published by Mexico’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), the National Health Service, Food Safety Quality (Senasica) stated t...

• Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto ranks in top 3 worst deals

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

  Bayer AG fought hard to take over Monsanto Co. Today, the $63 billion gambit ranks as one of the worst corporate deals in recent memory -- and is threatening th...

• 2,4-D ‘Drift Zero’ project presented at Expointer 2019

  Date：Aug. 28, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The state of Rio Grande do Sul, one of the largest soybean producers in Brazil, has suffered from several cases of drift, after the application of the herbicide...

• “Signs are extremely positive for Brazilian agribusiness,” said Senator Heinze

  Date：Aug. 28, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  We spoke exclusively with Senator Luis Carlos Heinze from the Progressive Party, who is an agronomist and is a leading politician involved in the Brazilian agri...

• Feeding the 11 billion: Wageningen, the small Dutch town ending our food crisis

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

  Describing itself as the primary knowledge-intensive agrifood ecosystem in the Netherlands, Food Valley, as it's known, promises food-related solutions "in the ...

• India: Certification of seeds to be made mandatory to step up farm output

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

  More than half of all seeds sold in India are not certified by any proper testing agency, and are often of poor quality.

• Crop gene editing needs proactive communication plan, scientist warns

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

  Effective science and communication collaborations are critical to ensure gene editing technology does not suffer from the “perception problem” now facing gen...

  Tags:Gene Editing

• "How vulnerable are we": Mapping climate change in India

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

  Climate change is here. Climate change is real. There have been enough extreme weather events of late to demonstrate that. Such events, in fact, arguably are on...