Viewpoint & Interview

• BASF reveals details of new insecticide Inscalis - Exclusive interview with Luiz Straioto

  Date：Sep. 16, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In this exclusive interview with AgroPages, Luis Fernando Straioto, BASF's Cotton and Bean Marketing Manager, explained the details of the launch of its insecti...

• NAAA: Five facts you need to know about aerial application and UVAs

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

  Over the last few years, the National Agricultural Aviation Association (NAAA) has consistently needed to set the record straight about inaccurate and/or mislea...

• Climate change threatens future of farming in Europe

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

  Adverse impacts of climate change are already being felt across Europe. Extreme weather, including recent heatwaves in many parts of the EU are already causing ...

• Why companies are lobbying to push for hybrid paddy seeds in India

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

  The Federation of Seed Industry of India (FSII), a lobby group for private seed companies, recently organised a closed-door meeting in Delhi to push for hybrid ...

  Tags:Rice

• 8 European agricultural drone startups you should know about in 2019

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

  Today, agriculture is all about high precision and high speed. In the past decade, precision farming has witnessed unprecedented growth across the world.

• Farmers’ contribution will be significant in making India $5-trillion economy: Agri Minister

  Date：Sep. 10, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Farmers should focus on developing agri-allied activities such as animal husbandry, bee-keeping and horticulture to double their incomes by 2022, Union Agricult...

• The Future of Farming? No Sun, No Soil, But Lots of Data

  Date：Sep. 10, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Humans have farmed for thousands of years, but do we have any idea what we’re doing?

• 'Agri sector to drive social, economic transformation in India'

  Date：Sep. 6, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The agriculture sector will be at the centre-stage of innovation and will lead India towards overall social and economic transformation by 2020, R Chandra Babu,...

• India's agro-chemical industry needs to ease these growing pains

  Date：Sep. 5, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Every business has its challenges and the agro-chemical industry is no exception to this rule. On the face of it, the industry is plagued by poor uptake of farm...

• Lawmakers urge US EPA to rethink use of antibiotics on citrus trees

  Date：Sep. 5, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  US lawmakers are urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to rethink its position on the use of two medically important antibiotics to treat a disease a...

• EuroChem CEO Ostbo sees growth from core market, not specialties

  Date：Sep. 4, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Eurochem

  The new chief of EuroChem Group AG, the fertilizer producer owned by Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko, sees traditional nutrients rather than super specia...

• “We will build a new factory in 2020,” says Wladimir Chaga, President of Brandt do Brasil

  Date：Sep. 4, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Wladimir Chaga, president of Brandt do Brasil, spoke exclusively to AgroPages about the company's expansion plans in the country. While some R$20 million will b...

• All Indigo solutions will be in Brazil in 2 years - Interview with Dario Maffei, Indigo Vice President of Global Markets Hedge

  Date：Sep. 4, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Dario Maffei, Indigo's Vice President of the Global Markets Hedge, has a degree from Carlson School of Management and Birckbeck, University of London. Since the...

• Genome editing, gene drives, and synthetic biology: Will they contribute to disease-resistant crops, and who will benefit?

  Date：Sep. 4, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Ensuring the access of small-scale farmers to products and potential benefits from genetic engineering (GE) technologies for agriculture will require concerted ...

• Education, politics, religion may have no impact on our acceptance of GMOs

  Date：Sep. 3, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Today, there’s a fierce debate about whether GMOs are safe to eat or a benefit to the environment.

  Tags:GM crop

• “Production quality significantly affects biological control” - Interview with Professor José Roberto Postali Parra

  Date：Sep. 3, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  José Roberto Postali Parra, Professor of the Department of Entomology and Acarology of the “Luiz de Queiroz” School of Agriculture (Esalq / USP), is one of t...

• Argentina’s agrochemical sector during election year: Interview with Patrícia Karlikowski, DVA Agro Argentina

  Date：Sep. 2, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  AgroPages exclusively interviewed Patrícia Karlikowski from DVA Agro Argentina, who spoke about the market, the industry and the current agrochemical registrat...

• Mexican officials tout their response to Panama disease on bananas

  Date：Sep. 2, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In an article published by Mexico’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), the National Health Service, Food Safety Quality (Senasica) stated t...

• Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto ranks in top 3 worst deals

  Date：Aug. 30, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Bayer AG fought hard to take over Monsanto Co. Today, the $63 billion gambit ranks as one of the worst corporate deals in recent memory -- and is threatening th...

• “Signs are extremely positive for Brazilian agribusiness,” said Senator Heinze

  Date：Aug. 28, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  We spoke exclusively with Senator Luis Carlos Heinze from the Progressive Party, who is an agronomist and is a leading politician involved in the Brazilian agri...

• 2,4-D ‘Drift Zero’ project presented at Expointer 2019

  Date：Aug. 28, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The state of Rio Grande do Sul, one of the largest soybean producers in Brazil, has suffered from several cases of drift, after the application of the herbicide...

• Feeding the 11 billion: Wageningen, the small Dutch town ending our food crisis

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

  Describing itself as the primary knowledge-intensive agrifood ecosystem in the Netherlands, Food Valley, as it's known, promises food-related solutions "in the ...

• India: Certification of seeds to be made mandatory to step up farm output

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

  More than half of all seeds sold in India are not certified by any proper testing agency, and are often of poor quality.

• Crop gene editing needs proactive communication plan, scientist warns

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

  Effective science and communication collaborations are critical to ensure gene editing technology does not suffer from the “perception problem” now facing gen...

  Tags:Gene Editing

• "How vulnerable are we": Mapping climate change in India

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

  Climate change is here. Climate change is real. There have been enough extreme weather events of late to demonstrate that. Such events, in fact, arguably are on...

• India should use Israeli model of drip irrigation system; suggests Indian expert

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

  India should adopt Israel's model of drip irrigation system as it is based on farmers' requirements and is not industry-designed like the one used in the countr...

• “There will be big expansion of inoculants in Brazil” - Exclusive interview with José Roberto, President of ANPII

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

  Brazil National Association of Inoculant Producers and Importers (ANPII)

  José Roberto, president of the Brazil National Association of Inoculant Producers and Importers (ANPII) granted an exclusive interview with AgroPages, in which...

• Putting the Cart before the Horse, India Agri policy

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

  The 2019 union budget has neither proposed any bold policy moves, nor any big allocations for investments in the agri-food sector. What it has is massive welfar...

• “Fulland boosts fungicide performance in coffee” - Interview with Satis research manager Aedyl Lauar

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

  Satis

  AgroPages exclusively interviewed Aedyl Lauar, research manager of Satis, a Brazilian crop nutrition company. Lauar highlighted the main problems in coffee crop...

• UPL to invest US$ 200 million in Brazil in 5 years - Interview with UPL Marketing Director in Brazil, Marcelo Zanchi

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

  In an exclusive interview with AgroPages, UPL marketing director Marcelo Zanchi outlined the main changes planned by the company following the acquisition of Ar...