Viewpoint & Interview

• EU Commission breaking own rules to give green light for new GMOs?

  Date：Mar. 5, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The European Commission broke its own rules and is allowing companies that stand to profit from the weakening of GMO safety rules to help rewrite them, an inves...

  Tags:GM crop

• Facing challenges raised by major organizations in integrating back into manufacturing

  Date：Mar. 5, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Nick Read

  The gap between producer cost and grower application price is getting smaller, and this can no longer support the current chain between these two factors. There...

• BioAg industry insights from Luca Bonini, CEO at Hello-Nature

  Date：Mar. 5, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Hello Nature (formerly Italpollina)

  Luca Bonini, the CEO of Hello Nature (Italpolina) is a very recognized leader in the BioAg Industry. His perspective on innovation comes from an uncommon commit...

• Developing differentiated products and new formulations, Baocheng grows with global customers

  Date：Mar. 5, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Developing differentiated products and new formulations, Baocheng grows with global customers

• Trend in Regulatory Safety Evaluation: An In vitro Alternative Approach

  Date：Mar. 4, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In an interview with AgroPages, Dr. Rajendra Nagane, Ph.D., Head -Mutagenicity and In vitro studies at JRF Global, a leading Indian CRO company, talks about JRF...

• Syngenta comments on misleading National Geographic atrazine story

  Date：Mar. 3, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Syngenta United States

  In a detailed review of the underlying study, Syngenta posits that the findings were predicated on flawed scientific methodology, disregard for real-life circum...

  Tags:Herbicides

• Australian Seed Federation welcomes expiry of moratorium on cultivation of GM food crops in New South Wales on 1 July 2021

  Date：Mar. 3, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The Australian Seed Federation (ASF) welcomed the announcement by Minister for Agriculture Adam Marshall that the moratorium on cultivation of GM food crops in ...

  Tags:GM crop

• Exclusive Interview: Farmers Know, They Can Get Better Harvest with DRAGON

  Date：Mar. 3, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In order to satisfy the needs of our clients, we have two agrochemical formulation plants, with the first being located in Izúcar de Matamoros, Puebla, and the...

• Biologicals crop protection in Brazilian agriculture

  Date：Mar. 2, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The global trend of increasing demand for food stuff produced in a sustainable manner has as a natural consequence the growth of bio-inputs. As a definition, bi...

• 15 Latin American countries have significant development potential for the pesticide market

  Date：Mar. 1, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Of the 34 countries that are part of the region, we consider that 15 have significant development potential for the pesticide market.

• New pesticide action plan must be balanced, UK's National Farmers' Union says

  Date：Mar. 1, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  National Farmers Union -NFU

  A revised National Action Plan for Pesticides must enhance farmers' ability to be competitive and produce safe and affordable food, the National Farmers' Union ...

• "Cloud is fundamental to our business success": A K Gupta, ED – IT Services, IFFCO

  Date：Mar. 1, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  A K Gupta, Executive Director – IT Services, IFFCO, shares how IFFCO has leveraged the full potential of the cloud, while taking advantage of emerging technolo...

• Indian agriculture shows positive recovery post pandemic: Dr Shivendra Bajaj, FSII

  Date：Mar. 1, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Agriculture sector in India helped in the speedy recovery of the economic growth post the pandemic. India’s agriculture and allied sectors helped the farm sect...

• Qilu Pharmaceutical: Serving the Sustainable Development of Agriculture with Innovative Biopesticides

  Date：Mar. 1, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Founded in 2009, Qilu Inner Mongolia is a large scale Chinese antibiotics manufacturing enterprise, is the largest producer of Abamectin and Emamectin Benzoate ...

• Lansheng Biotech: Creating another “Huawei” in the field of fine chemicals

  Date：Mar. 1, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Lansheng Biotech: Creating another “Huawei” in the field of fine chemicals

• 2020 Overview of Global GMO Development

  Date：Feb. 25, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In this report, AgroPages will present a brief review of global GMO developments in 2020 in two aspects, which are the commercialization of global GM crops amid...

• Market Access Dynamics for Brazilian Crop Protection Inputs

  Date：Feb. 25, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In the article “The Miracle of Cerrado,” The Economist reaffirms Brazil as a major food producer that “in less than 30 years has gone from a food importer to...

• Fortune Group - Bestar: Main Producer of Imidacloprid, Acetamiprid and Thiamethoxam

  Date：Feb. 25, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Fortune Group - Bestar: Main Producer of Imidacloprid, Acetamiprid and Thiamethoxam

• Nanotechnology in agriculture, why the use of this technology is lower when compared with other sectors?

  Date：Feb. 24, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Nanotechnology, in my opinion, is one of the most revolutionary technologies for the next years, but why do we still not have practical results in agriculture w...

• Technological advancement, innovation, R&D and investments keep India staying ahead of the game

  Date：Feb. 24, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  India’s chemical sector is witnessing an upward curve, and several factors contribute to the growth of this sector including technological advancement, innovat...

• Xingbai Group - the leading player in the industry of avermectin and emamectin benzoate

  Date：Feb. 23, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Xingbai Group - the leading player in the industry of avermectin and emamectin benzoate

• Arturo Lizon, CEO at half-century PROBELTE, talks about BioAg market and PROBELTE development

  Date：Feb. 22, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  PROBELTE

  This report is an interview with Arturo, a very dynamic professional passionate about bioag. He talked in detail about company goals, BioAg Market in Spain, gro...

• Pesticide active ingredient renewal: how to negotiate the EU endocrine disruptor requirements

  Date：Feb. 22, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Covance Laboratories

  ED assessment of active substances in PPPs came into effect in November 2018 in the EU. Insights from EFSA’s assessment of the first 65 actives shows how guida...

• Innovation Development in the Brazilian Crop Protection Market

  Date：Feb. 22, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Brazil has consolidated itself as one of the main food producers in the world. USDA studies point to the need for the world to increase food production in order...

• Syngenta, university researcher advocate holistic approach to maximize yield potential and minimize future obstacles

  Date：Feb. 18, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Syngenta United States

  Syngenta sat down with Stevan Knezevic, Ph.D., weed management specialist at the University of Nebraska, to discuss his “10 Commandments” of weed management t...

  Tags:Herbicides

• Gene-edited crops may be coming to Europe—if scientists can avoid the PR mistakes of the GMO debate

  Date：Feb. 17, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Once the UK left the EU, it would be free to invest in gene editing of crops and livestock to “feed the world”.

  Tags:Gene Editing

• Why insectary habitats are key in organic agriculture

  Date：Feb. 9, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In agriculture, input distribution companies are essential stakeholders for their role as intermediaries between manufacturers of new products and growers. Thei...

  Tags:Organic Agriculture

• The Dynamics of the Crop Protection Market in Brazil

  Date：Feb. 8, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Agribusiness is the most dynamic sector in the Brazilian economy. The numbers prove it.

• What do we find by comparing M&As in biostimulant and biopesticide sectors?

  Date：Feb. 4, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In the face of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the agri-input industry was unavoidably impacted in 2020. However, the ef...

• 2020 Record registration numbers confirmed the highly promising growth potential of the Brazilian biocontrol market

  Date：Feb. 3, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  At the very end of 2020, MAPA´s Act Nº70 (12/23/20) has confirmed the highly promissing results for the biological control market for the next years with the ...