Viewpoint & Interview

• Canada: Why is canola winning acres and not wheat?

  Date：Dec. 10, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Wheat needs more research money to compete with crops like canola. That’s the message organizers delivered at the first consultation meeting on two new propose...

  Tags:Oilseed Rapewheat

• Sustainable hybrid seed sector key to Africa’s Green Revolution

  Date：Dec. 10, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Africa’s demand for food will more than double by 2050, driven by population growth and rapid urbanisation.

• Education may be key ingredient in CRISPR technology adoption

  Date：Dec. 7, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Will consumers accept the CRISPR Cas9 gene editing technology and the wealth of new products and cropping innovations it promises to usher in in coming years?

  Tags:Gene Editing

• British farmers 'could lead the way' on gene editing after Brexit

  Date：Dec. 7, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Michael Gove has said that British scientists and farmers could “lead the way” on gene editing after the UK leaves the EU.

  Tags:Gene Editing

• We have enough supplies' says Seed Co

  Date：Dec. 6, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The Zimbabwe’s largest seed producer, Seed Co Limited, says it has enough capacity to meet local market’s seed requirements for the 2018 /19 agriculture seaso...

• Seed Care Dedication, innovation and repeated testing goes into every seed treatment

  Date：Dec. 5, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Seed treatments have come a long way over the past 20 years. In most modern seed treatments – fungicides, insecticides, nematicides, beneficial microbes and pl...

  Tags:Seed treatment

• Reaction & Analysis: Trump-Xi Agreement Pauses US Tariff Increases: What It Means for Companies

  Date：Dec. 4, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  According to the White House, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed over the weekend that neither the United States nor China woul...

• Canadian farmers say no to ‘blank cheque’ on seed royalties

  Date：Dec. 4, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Some farmers are willing to pay more in royalties to encourage cereal crop breeding — but they don’t want to sign a blank cheque.

• Defensive market should see recovery and end 2018 with sales of $10 billion in Brazil, projects Adama president

  Date：Dec. 4, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Adama Brazil's president Rodrigo Gutierrez has indicated that the Brazilian agrochemicals market is expected to recover in 2018. According to him, the year may ...

• Africa’s SMEs key to increasing access to improved seed varieties by smallholder farmers

  Date：Nov. 30, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  For Africa to realize its dream of attaining food and nutrition security, and improved livelihoods of its populations, the private sector must play a key role i...

• New pulse breeder targets high yields and market suitability

  Date：Nov. 29, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Targeting stable high yields and breeding characteristics that suit a range of markets is the focus taken by Limagrain’s new senior pulse breeder, Will Pilling...

• To fulfill biofuels’ promise, scientists boost plant oils with gene editing

  Date：Nov. 28, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  If you’ve ever squeezed raw sunflower seeds or peanuts, you know if you press hard enough, you can collect oil from them. The same is true of seeds from the fl...

  Tags:Gene Editing

• From lab to land: A look inside Syngenta’s Seedcare Institute

  Date：Nov. 27, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Syngenta United States

  It’s not often a company opens the doors to its multi-million dollar seed research centre, so when you get the chance for a tour, you take it.

• A rice revolution is underway in Asia

  Date：Nov. 27, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In advances reminiscent of the “Green Revolution” of four decades ago, agricultural scientists have quietly made important breakthroughs in the cultivation of...

  Tags:Rice

• Once neglected, these traditional crops are our new rising stars

  Date：Nov. 27, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In history, 6 000 – 7 000 species have been cultivated for food. Yet, today only three crops provide more than 40 percent of our daily calories!

• Digital agriculture: what is the near future of Argentine agriculture?

  Date：Nov. 26, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In an exclusive dialogue with Infobae, Bob Reiter, the Head of Research and Development at Bayer Crop Science analyzed topics, such as the Law of Seeds and curr...

• Plant genetics matter for organic farmers

  Date：Nov. 26, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Plant genetics can make a big difference in yield to organic and conventional-to-organic transitioning farmers, according to Mark Schonbeck, PhD, who presented ...

• Finding fakes: Mobile phones help detect counterfeit seeds in Kenya

  Date：Nov. 26, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Besides more unpredictable weather and changing crop diseases, Kenyan farmers face another worry: counterfeit seed.

• 12 precision farming agtech start-ups to watch

  Date：Nov. 26, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Precision agriculture proves to be a fertile breeding ground for start-ups. Here’s a few to watch. All around the world, entrepreneurs and engineers, young com...

• Can genetic engineering deliver a natural microbial fertilizer for crops?

  Date：Nov. 23, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  At the turn of the previous century, German scientists Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch got all the credit for finding a way to convert atmospheric nitrogen (in its v...

  Tags:GM cropGene Editing

• The science behind seed singulation

  Date：Nov. 23, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Just how much of an impact do equipment settings, seed treatment adherence and lubricants have on yields? It’s greater than what you might think.

• Interview with Ceres Imaging CEO: Reliable science-based products are critical in building trust with farmers

  Date：Nov. 22, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  “The belief in the science-based services and products has been driving the growth of Ceres Imaging, we are now the world’s leading company in agricultural ae...

  Tags:Precision Farming

• Interview with Delair CEO and co-founder Michaël de Lagarde

  Date：Nov. 22, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Delair sells fixed-wing commercial drones that can fly long distances, making them attractive to industries such as utilities, mining, construction, and agricul...

• Syngenta offers best practices for optimal herbicide application timing in the USA

  Date：Nov. 21, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Syngenta United States

  Many factors contribute to weeds developing resistance to herbicides. One common problem is applying herbicides at the wrong timing. To help growers, Syngenta i...

• Russia: Production of niche greenhouse vegetables could double by 2023

  Date：Nov. 21, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  According to projections by the National Horticultural and Vegetable Association, by 2023-2024, production of niche-market greenhouse vegetables (peppers, auber...

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• GMO vs. gene editing for plants: a closer look

  Date：Nov. 20, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  It’s easy to look at the vast array of upscale restaurants and groceries touting non-GMO (genetically modified organism) offerings and conclude that it is haza...

  Tags:GM cropGene Editing

• France struggling to phase out pesticides

  Date：Nov. 20, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  France has promised to phase out glyphosate at a quicker rate than the EU. However, successive “Ecophyto plans” have not produced any results and meanwhile, t...

  Tags:Glyphosate

• Guide to Plant Breeders’ Rights in Canada

  Date：Nov. 20, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Canada is known for its agricultural innovations, the protection of which is important for commercial success. This article provides a detailed review of the re...

• Will Argentina be the first country approving a GMO wheat?

  Date：Nov. 19, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  “We musn’t do what other countries have already done; we must do what no other country did” Self-confident and why not a little bit provoker, the CEO of Bioc...

  Tags:GM cropwheat

• Biocidal Product Risk Assessments and Their Relation to Efficacy

  Date：Nov. 19, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Eurofins Agroscience Services Ltd.

  Under the EU BPR regulation, as part of the preparation of a biocidal product authorisation dossier, it is essential that your biocidal products are assessed fo...