Viewpoint & Interview

• SICIT Group devoted to amino acids/peptides based biostimulants for 60 years

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

  SICIT Group

  AgroPages recently interviewed SICIT Group’s Chief Commercial Officer, Alessandro Paterniani, who introduced SICIT and talked about their response to challenge...

• Observation of agrochemical companies worldwide during COVID-19 outbreak

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

  Mickey Shan

  This year, business has not been easy for Chinese pesticide exporters. Some companies say that they have received the notification on the postponement of paymen...

  Tags:Business Promotion Plan

• In Covid Adversity Lies India’s Biggest Opportunity To Reboot

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

  India, in the meantime has announced and is in the midst of a lock down to control the spread of the virus. Many predict that this lockdown, would effectivel...

• Covid 19 lockdown: Urgent suggestions to the Government of India to support to farmers, their livelihoods as well as to ensure uninterrupted food supply chains

  Date：Apr. 1, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  This note is prepared with the understanding that all producers including farm workers have to be protected with an economic support package, even as some produ...

• Pesticide registration in Brazil: How long for approval?

  Date：Mar. 31, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The ownership of the pesticide registration gives security to the player who accesses the market, as well as significantly increases the value of the company wi...

• What am I learning from this crisis ...?

  Date：Mar. 31, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Knowing that the situation we are facing is one of the most serious that I have gone through in my entire professional life and despite having gone through seve...

• ALS Laboratories: Solutions for agrochemical and biological tests

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

  ALS provides studies conducted in the Good Laboratory Practices for formulated products (chemical and biological) and technicians in accordance with internation...

• How to help Indian farmers grow money?

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

  While the share of agriculture in India’s economy has progressively declined, even today the sector directly and indirectly occupies over 50 per cent of the co...

• In 2020, ag community has ‘to prove to society’ it can safely spray dicamba

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

  Decisions made in the next year will be critical for the future use of the herbicide dicamba, a weed killer that has skyrocketed in use in recent years but has ...

• "Aumenax guarantees performance, comes with multisite" - Interview with Hélio Cabral (BASF Soybean Manager)

  Date：Mar. 19, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  BASF Brazil S.A.

  The multinational, BASF, recently launched its new fungicide, Aumenax (Fluxapyroxad + Copper Oxychloride), which controls the major diseases affecting soy. The ...

• Why India needs agripreneurship?

  Date：Mar. 19, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  For starters in this area – an entrepreneur is someone who organizes, starts, operates and in effective control of a business or commercial venture. She or he ...

• Stepan, Solvay and Azelis sponsor 2020 Formulation & Adjuvant Technology magazine

  Date：Mar. 19, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  AgroPages will publish its 2020 Formulation& adjuvant Technology magazine this May, which aims to track new policies and regulations, explore the changes and ch...

• Movement of seed under the COVID-19 crisis

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

  The world faces a serious health crisis with “SARS-CoV-2” and the disease it causes “coronavirus disease 2019” (COVID-19), now declared by the World Health ...

• Pakistan Suncrop Group: Pursue a strategy of branded product development, thrust on registration and aggressive marketing

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

  Suncrop Group

  Although the agrochemical market in Pakistan is relatively small, it is growing rapidly. In 2018, the value of the Pakistan plant protection and special fertili...

• Opinion | Is the worst really over for India’s agricultural sector?

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

  For the full year as well, the advance estimates suggest a growth rate of 3.7% for agriculture, as against 0.9% for manufacturing, and 3% for construction. Thes...

• Farming With Drones Beyond Visual Line of Sight

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

  Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have found use in agriculture for decades, with unmanned helicopters spraying pesticides on rice fields in Japan back in the 198...

• Bill to ban controversial class of neurotoxins again hits resistance

  Date：Mar. 16, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The prospect for passage is unlikely for a bill that bans a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids. These neurotoxins are linked to the decline of honey be...

• Expected developments for glyphosate, dicamba, chlorpyrifos, paraquat, pyrethroids, atrazine and neonicotinoids in US for 2020

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

  Undeterred by the new coronavirus, state, tribal and federal pesticide regulators and chemical company representatives gathered in Virginia this week for the an...

• "Crop protection management increases productivity and profitability" – Interview with Celso Macedo,Nufarm's Marketing Director in Latin America

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

  Nufarm Brasil Limited

  AgroPages exclusively interviewed Celso Macedo (Nufarm's Marketing Director in Latin America), who talked about the agreement with Farmers Edge in Brazil, as we...

• Why we need more protected agri zones

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

  Declaring the Cauvery delta as a protected agricultural zone (PAZ) was a political masterstroke by Tamil Nadu’s government, for it managed to win the approval ...

• COVID-19 outbreak could help agri exports: Indian Agriculture Ministry analysis

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

  India’s Agriculture Ministry officials have marked 21 products wherein India can grab part of China’s market share in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. These...

• ADAMA's Marketing Director talks about pesticide market in Brazil

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

  ADAMA Brasil

  Alexandre Pires is an agronomist who graduated from the Federal University of Goiás. With over 20 years of experience in the agribusiness sector, he has worked...

• Innovation is necessity for business and agriculture: Official

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

  Innovation is a necessity for business as well as for agriculture, said Devendra Katara, Director, Ministry of Micro Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME), Governme...

• Quick Agricultural Tips to Improve Yield

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

  In India, agriculture has always been the epicenter and the steering wheel of the economy. Since independence, India has been an agrarian economy and we have so...

• Top European science council demands ‘radical’ GMO regulatory reform

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

  A top European science council calling is demanding a “radical reform of the legal framework” that regulates genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the Euro...

• “Brazil-China connection is very important” - Interview with Rodrigo Santos (Head of CropScience LATAM Bayer)

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

  Bayer Latin America

  AgroPages exclusively interviewed Rodrigo Santos (Head of CropScience LATAM Bayer) about the launch of the company’s new technology, Intacta 2 Xtend, in Brazil...

• Emphasis on new crop technologies to boost India's climate action - Dr Shivendra Bajaj-FSII

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

  Despite being the fastest-growing economy, India has shown great commitment in achieving most of the goals under Paris Agreement. The commitment for emission in...

• Is there still hope for rapid change from pesticides to IPM in Europe?

  Date：Mar. 4, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Koppert Biological Systems（KOPPERT B.V.）

  The third edition of the Foodlog ‘Agriculture without chemicals – How?’ congress was held at Koppert Biological Systems headquarters on 27 February. This yea...

• Manica devoted to premium copper–based fungicides for over 70 years

  Date：Mar. 4, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Manica is a family owned company producing copper based products since more than 70 years. The production started with the product Copper Sulphate Pentahydrate,...

• ACFI strongly believe the proposed ban on Tricyclazole and Buprofezin will be revoked

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

  The recent proposal of Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers' Welfare, to ban Tricyclazole and Buprofezin in India is no doubt a big blow to the country's dynamic a...