Viewpoint & Interview

• "Nufarm is able to fully meet the needs of the Brazilian farmer" - Interview with Nufarm's insecticide manager, Alexandre Manzini

  Date：Mar. 25, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Alexandre Manzini, insecticide manager of the Australian company Nufarm in Brazil, recently granted an exclusive interview to AgroPages. While the focus of the...

• Q&A with Arama Kukutai: How advances in AgTech are reshaping farming

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

  Activity in the agtech sector has skyrocketed over the last five years—marking its arrival as an important piece of the venture capital ecosystem, according to...

• Bayer’s Commercial Director talked about plans in Brazil after merger with Monsanto

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

  AgroPages exclusively interviewed Marcio Santos, Commercial Director of Bayer in Brazil, during the Expodireto Fair that was held this month in the state of Rio...

• Solving the “last mile” challenge of maize seeds in Africa

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

  Agrodealers play a pivotal role in delivering the gains of the green revolution to millions of smallholders in Africa. Reaching even the most remote corners of ...

  Tags:Maize

• Syngenta projects higher billings in Brazil this year, says director for Latin America

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

  Syngenta's Brazil operation will lead the agricultural inputs market in sales in 2019, according to Valdemar Fischer, regional director for Latin America. The e...

• Five Good Questions: Young Kim, CEO, Digital Harvest

  Date：Mar. 20, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Digital Harvest

  Digital Harvest is a data science company, exclusively focusing on agriculture. As Chief Executive Officer of Digital Harvest, Young Kim applies his 20+ years o...

• Insight into innovative adjuvant technologies and initiatives on the formulation technology innovation

  Date：Mar. 20, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Adjuvant are needed to manage inherent physical active ingredient properties and associated aspects and play an important role in designing and tuning of produc...

• Rodrigo Ramírez, UPL Argentina: “Sell in a sustainable way”

  Date：Mar. 20, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  UPL Argentina

  Rodrigo Ramírez, manager of UPL Argentina, presented the objectives of the company and pointed out that it is necessary to provide other solutions. "Everyone i...

• What plans the third world largest inoculants company according to its VP

  Date：Mar. 19, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  It’s probably that this is not a well-known datum, but 21% of the global inoculants market is held by an Argentine company, Rizobacter.

  Tags:Seed treatment

• Organic carrot breeding delivers novel varieties, cutting-edge research

  Date：Mar. 19, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The U.S. organic industry continues to grow, with sales of organic food reaching $45 billion in 2017 and the number of organic farms estimated at over 14,200, a...

  Tags:Seed breedingFruits and Vegetables

• 2018 Overview of Global GMO Development

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

  In the 22nd year of commercialization of GM crops in 2017, 24 countries grew 189.8 million hectares of GM crops – an increase of 4.7 million hectares (11.6 mil...

• Israeli growing agri-tech sector helps address global food security challenge

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

  The Israeli agri-tech sector is expected to help deal with global food security challenge as it is growing fast in technologically innovative areas.

• Interview with João Giraldi: Adama invests in completing product portfolio to meet Brazilian farmers’ need

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

  ADAMA Brasil

  AgroPages exclusively interviewed João Giraldi, Portfolio Manager and head of Market Development for Adama in Brazil. He talks about the major solutions his co...

• Drought-tolerant crops to contribute to food security in Namibia

  Date：Mar. 15, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Farmers in Namibia now have new crop varieties of cowpea and sorghum that are more tolerant to drought and pests planted this year, thanks to nuclear technology...

• Drought-tolerant corn in the United States: Research, commercialization, and related crop production practices

  Date：Mar. 15, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Droughts are among the most frequent causes of crop yield losses, failures, and subsequent crop revenue losses across the world.

  Tags:Maize

• Gene-edited food quietly arrives in restaurant cooking oil

  Date：Mar. 14, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Somewhere in the Midwest, a restaurant is frying foods with oil made from gene-edited soybeans. That’s according to the company making the oil, which says it’...

  Tags:SoybeanGene Editing

• 2019 Global Agribusiness M&A Outlook

  Date：Mar. 14, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Compared to the major consolidation events in 2016 and 2017, this past year could be considered relatively calm. Multinationals have reshuffled and are in the p...

• South America – An Important Agricultural Region for the Future

  Date：Mar. 14, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Verdant Partners LLC

  With vast land availability, rich water resources, and a relatively small population, the South American continent will remain a critical and growing region for...

• Data becomes cash crop for big agriculture

  Date：Mar. 14, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  For six generations, Ben Riensche’s family has tended corn and soybeans outside Jesup, a town of 2,500 on the windswept plains of eastern Iowa.

• End of tax rebate may raise Brazilian agri-input prices by 7.6%

  Date：Mar. 13, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The ICMS Agreement No. 100/1997, a covenant that reduces by 60% the Tax on the Circulation of Goods and Services (ICMS) in the operations of agricultural inputs...

• The AgTech Industry May Be Growing Up

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

  The AgTech industry is continuing to mature, at least according to AgFunder’s latest AgriFood Tech Investing Report published on March 7. This “record breakin...

• First plant product of gene editing: A new soybean variety

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

  At the beginning of 2019, soybean oil with improved quality did took its place on the market shelves. The mentioned soybean oil contains several times less satu...

  Tags:SoybeanGene Editing

• Startups Lead the Innovations in Agriculture

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

  In the past few years, the application of modern computer technology to the agricultural sector has been exciting for both agricultural practitioners and invest...

• Seed business starts small, expands worldwide

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

  Vaughn Forbes started his seed business with $50 in the pantry of his home in 1976.Now, Forbes Seed and Grain has an added division, Pacific Seed Production, an...

• GMO labelling law in U.S. receives mixed reviews

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

  Farm groups and food companies are pleased with a new United States labelling law governing genetically modified organisms, but non-GMO certification bodies and...

  Tags:GM crop

• Kenya seed companies outperform multinational peers in serving smallholder farmers

  Date：Mar. 8, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Two homegrown African seed companies top the 2019 Access to Seeds Index for Eastern and Southern Africa, for playing a key role in raising smallholder farmer pr...

• Where are the Canadian genome-editing startups?

  Date：Mar. 8, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Genome editing has made some major strides in the past year.Minnesota-based Calyxt struck a deal with a processor to make oil from its GE soybeans, in which the...

  Tags:Gene Editing

• "Biological control needs to become well known in Brazil" - Interview with Koppert do Brasil

  Date：Mar. 8, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Jaqueline Antonio, Koppert do Brasil's Communication and Marketing Manager, spoke exclusively to AgroPages about the goals of the company's new web portal, intr...

• UK: Growers urged to look out for potential new crop virus

  Date：Mar. 7, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  British growers are being urged to look out for symptoms of a potential new virus that could be devastating to crops of tomatoes and peppers.

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• "China is highly regarded by our management" - Interview with Tereza Cristina, Brazil's new ag minister

  Date：Mar. 7, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  AgroPages has exclusively interviewed the new minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply of Brazil, Tereza Cristina. The nomination of the new minister of MA...