Viewpoint & Interview

• Pesticides Management Bill: Not really in India’s interest

  Date：Sep. 28, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Prime minister Narendra Modi is heralding in an era of reforms for Indian agriculture, especially on the issues that have long plagued the nation. The Pesticide...

• How ‘Pesticide Management Bill 2020’ may hurt sales, profits of Indian pesticide manufacturers | Interview

  Date：Sep. 25, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Under PMB, farmers will also have to obtain the prescription before they can buy certain pesticides, which will pose a huge obstacle in the timely procurement o...

• Lonza: Focus on niche markets and commit to portfolio enhancement & geographical expansion in Latin America

  Date：Sep. 25, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  “For Latin America, Lonza Solution's Crop Protection is looking forward to operate in niche markets, supporting specific challenges of the Ag market with speci...

• Radical transformation of our agricultural system needed, not GMOs: A Greens/EFA perspective on genome editing in agriculture

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

  Biodiversity and ecosystems are under extreme threat, with around one million species facing extinction. To avert the worst consequences of runaway climate chan...

• Saltigo: Focus on custom synthesis and manufacturing services for advanced chemical intermediates and active ingredients

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

  ​"Growth perspectives of the global agchem CMO industry over the coming years will likely be further shaped by regulatory developments in the end markets for a...

• Doubling custom duty on pesticide formulations will hurt farmers: CropLife India

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

  CropLife India, an association of 15 R&D driven crop science companies, is concerned by a proposal within the government seeking to double Custom Duty on agroch...

• Lepigen is best alternative for efficient longevity management of Bt soybeans - Interview with Murilo Moreira, Marketing Director of AgBiTech Brasil

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

  In this exclusive interview with AgroPages, the marketing director of AgBiTech Brasil, Murilo Moreira, talks about the launch of the bioinsecticide Lepigen, whi...

• Viewpoint: India shouldn’t let activists derail field trials of insect-resistant GMO eggplant

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

  In a welcome sign that the decade-long benign indifference to technology infusion in the farm sector is set to change …. the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Comm...

• “Technology controls Corynespora cassiicola fungus in soybean, cotton” – Interview with Nédio Tormen (Technical Director of the Phytus Group)

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

  Soybean and cotton crops are among the most affected by the fungus, Corynespora cassiicola, which causes a disease called “target spot” in Brazil. AgroPages i...

• “Zidua delivers greater residual action” - Interview with Juan Martín Pérez Brea (Manager of Winter Cereals at BASF Argentina)

  Date：Aug. 27, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  BASF Argentina

  AgroPages exclusively interviewed Juan Martín Pérez Brea (Winter Cereals Manager at BASF Argentina), who explained the progress to the launch of the herbicide...

• Mancozeb: Facing regulatory challenges

  Date：Aug. 26, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The global production capacity of mancozeb already exceeds 200,000 tons. In the future, this segment will be mainly dominated by a few players, currently, the t...

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• AI, blockchain, IoT powered e-marketplace for Indian farmers

  Date：Aug. 25, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Agritech startup Agri10x, a global e-marketplace, is leveraging the power of advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain and Internet of Thin...

• CRISPR crop development proceeds rapidly, but ‘bottlenecks’ limit promise

  Date：Aug. 25, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Since its discovery as a bacterial adaptive immune system and its development for genome editing in eukaryotes, the clustered regularly interspaced short palind...

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• Ancom remains focused on growing agrochemicals segment

  Date：Aug. 25, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  ANCOM CROP CARE SDN BHD

  ANCOM Bhd — a locally listed diversified group controlled by prominent businessman Datuk Dr Siew Ka Wei — was in the limelight last month after announcing a p...

• Timing, one the keys to maximise results when using biostimulants

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

  Weather conditions change across the season and this affects crop growth. In fact, each year crops grow and develop in a constant interaction with the local wea...

• Plant Health Care: Focus on plant response elicitors technology, boost company's rapid development

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

  PHC is a leading provider of proprietary biological products to global agricultural markets. The company is famous for its core Plant Response Elicitors technol...

• How remote sensing satellite data & deep tech solutions are helping Indian distressed farmers

  Date：Aug. 18, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  RMSI Cropalytics is a subsidiary of RMSI, a global leader in geospatial and engineering solutions. These solutions address global issues of climate change, natu...

• Remote sensing will enable farmers to make smart input decisions - Interview with Rob Neil (Chairman of Gamaya)

  Date：Aug. 18, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Gamaya

  Gamaya is a startup specializing in advanced aerial image analysis technology, both drones and satellites, combined with machine learning and artificial intelli...

• CROs: Offer services, but more than services – Exclusive interview with Manexa

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

  The strong situation of the crop protection market has further stimulated CRO companies to increase their investments in Latin America in the past years. AgroPa...

• RCF’s future outlook is very strong; its results will be seen in coming days, says SC Mudgerikar, CMD

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

  SC Mudgerikar, Chairman & Managing Director, Rashtriya Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd. (RCF), talks about Q1FY21 results, the future outlook of the company, curren...

• CROs: Offer services, but more than services – Exclusive interview with NSF

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

  The strong situation of the crop protection market has further stimulated CRO companies to increase their investments in Latin America in the past years. AgroPa...

• Interview with Julián Rioja, Marketing and Development Director at TIMAC AGRO Spain

  Date：Aug. 12, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Timac AGRO España

  TIMAC AGRO is a multinational company belonging to the Roullier Group, specializing in plant and animal nutrition. We are present in 40 countries and have some ...

• CROs: Offer services, but more than services – Exclusive interview with Vigna Brasil

  Date：Aug. 12, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The strong situation of the crop protection market has further stimulated CRO companies to increase their investments in Latin America in the past years. AgroPa...

• Brazil, China have a lot to cooperate and benefit from, says Geraldo Berger, Head of Regulatory Science LatAm at Bayer

  Date：Aug. 11, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  AgroPages spoke exclusively with Geraldo Berger, Head of Regulatory Science LatAm at Bayer Crop Science. In this interview, he talks about the regulatory landsc...

• RNAi-based pesticides contribute to the promise of a New Green Revolution

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

  TechAccel

  RNAi promises advantages as a pesticidal class: it is effective, efficient and can be designed to target a specific pest. To understand how, first consider toda...

• CROs: Offer services, but more than services – Exclusive interview with SynTech

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

  The strong situation of the crop protection market has further stimulated CRO companies to increase their investments in Latin America in the past years. AgroPa...

• Kimitec’s CEO Félix García: “We look for an agricultural system both productive and natural”

  Date：Aug. 7, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Kimitec’s business model aims for a farming system offering food 100% free of chemical residues, but at an affordable price. “What we do is not important, wha...

• CROs: Offer services, but more than services – Exclusive interview with Eurofins

  Date：Aug. 7, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The strong situation of the crop protection market has further stimulated CRO companies to increase their investments in Latin America in the past years. AgroPa...

• Interview with UPL on the OpenAg Center

  Date：Aug. 7, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  UPL is now one of the top five agriculture solutions companies in the world. Ahead of the virtual World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit, we spoke to Adrian Percy, C...

• “AgBiTech accounts for 17% of soybean bioinsecticide market” - Interview with Adriano Vilas Boas

  Date：Aug. 6, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  AgBiTech Pty Ltd

  After three years in the Brazilian market, AgBiTech has taken the lead in developing baculovirus for soybeans. With two million hectares treated during the last...