Viewpoint & Interview

• Market trends and breeding innovation charting the path for indoor farming

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

  A unique opportunity for over 300 thought leaders to come together and advance the sustainability, profitability and health-focus of the indoor trend that’s ch...

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• Indigo CEO: Agriculture can reverse climate change and livestock farming has an important role

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

  Indigo AG

  Today, Indigo launched the Terraton Initiative, a goal to sequester one trillion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by adopting "regenerative agricultur...

• Dow: High performance oil dispersion adjuvant development

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

  Oil dispersion (OD) formulation is an emerging formulation in Ag industry, which is claimed as environmental friendly, better pesticide efficacy than water-base...

• Intelichem Group: Providing complete solution for crops, complementing food supply chain in South Africa

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

  AGROPAGES interviewed Mr. Gideon Hefer, CEO of the Intelichem Group, a leading agricultural company in South Africa. He introduced the current challenges and fu...

• Making good even better: Adding micronutrients to seed coatings

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

  High-performance coating technologies for improved flowability, sowability, and adhesion as well as differentiation through coloring: This is what Bayer SeedGro...

  Tags:Seed treatment

• The Application and Development of Pesticide Precision in Japan

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

  Yamabiko

  The agricultural working population has been decreasing in Japan. On the other hand, the average age of farmers has been increasing. These factors have caused ...

• UPL presents Orthene systemic insecticide in Brazil: Interview with Sérgio Chidi

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

  AgroPages exclusively interviewed Sérgio Chidi, leader of insecticides at UPL Brazil. He spoke about the advantages of the Orthene insecticide, which is being ...

  Tags:UPLInsecticidesAcephate

• Argentines buying more agrochemicals this harvest

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

  Red Surcos S.A.

  The sale of inputs for the next agricultural season of 2019/20, which will begin in a few days with the planting of wheat, is showing significant growth compare...

• Companies seek clarity on breeding innovation to stay in EU

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

  A number of breeding companies have promised to relocate their advanced mutagenesis breeding programmes outside Europe and others will follow if nothing is done...

  Tags:GM cropGene Editing

• Royalty-free genes reduce GMO seed costs in Africa

  Date：May. 31, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa will be able to access improved seeds at low cost, thanks to the use of royalty-free genes in genetically modified (GM...

  Tags:GM crop

• How drone data significantly improves seed breeding and seed production

  Date：May. 29, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Seed companies around the world deploy drone solutions to collect high throughput plant data and unlock the phenotyping bottleneck with aerial drone data.

• The top 12 ways Israel is feeding the world

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

  Food security is a critical concern as the global population expands and natural resources dwindle. Smart solutions for more efficient farming, hardier crops, a...

• Why are Brassica crops so susceptible to Black Rot?

  Date：May. 24, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  V-shaped yellow sectors on the leaf edges and blackening of the leaf veins in Brassica crops such as broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, radishes or waterc...

• Dr Nicolas Taylor: Developing salt-tolerant wheat

  Date：May. 24, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Salinity threatens to reduce wheat yields across the West Australian Wheatbelt and is a major threat to the world’s arable land, agricultural productivity and ...

  Tags:wheat

• Exclusive: Brazil Ag Minister on first visit to China, seeks closer trade partnership

  Date：May. 24, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Last week, AgroPages attended SIAL China 2019 in Shanghai, where AgroPages was honored to have an interview with Tereza Cristina, the Brazilian Minister of Agri...

• Did you know that treated seeds perform better?

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

  Treated seed has a much better chance of thriving under adverse conditions when untreated seed might be challenged.

  Tags:Seed treatmentOrnamental and Turf

• “Innovation at Syngenta through development of organic products' - says sustainability officer

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

  Xavier Leprince, who is responsible for Sustainability at Syngenta, announced that it will accelerate the company's innovation process. The goal, according to L...

• Blocked by GMO politics, African scientist turns to 1950s technology

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

  Africa’s uneasy history with agricultural biotechnology can be summed up by what’s growing, and not growing, on a small research farm in central Malawi, one o...

  Tags:GM crop

• "Biological control grows in Brazil and earns producers’ confidence" - Sérgio Abud, from Embrapa

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

  Biologist Sérgio Abud, supervisor of the Embrapa Cerrados technology transfer area, notes that biological control is the best tool for sustainable agricultural...

• Smart Farm Policies in Korea

  Date：May. 17, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The Smart Farm government policy started with the rapid opening of the oversea market with trading economies such as the US and the EU has progressed rapidly. I...

• GMO superior to organic? Researchers assert that strict EU policy hinders agricultural innovation

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

  Ironclad EU policies on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is unjustified on the basis of the perceived “unnaturalness” of GMO plants and may stand in the ...

  Tags:GM crop

• Does Big Ag control farmers through seeds patents? Farmers don’t think so.

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

  You may have heard this before: “Big Ag” controls modern farming because they produce GMO seeds, which forces farmers to buy from soulless corporations.

• Brazil CHD's: to be the supplier providing support to every link of agriculture chain

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

  Brazil's CHD's company is an agrochemical company established only two years ago but with rapid growth, and in 2018 it became the second biggest importer of Ema...

• Western Growers issued statement on California's chlorpyrifos ban

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

  Western Growers

  California farmers are universally committed to the safety of their food, the health of their workers and communities, and the sustainability of their land. At ...

  Tags:Chlorpyrifos

• Is Kenya finally ready for rollout of GM crops?

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

  The Kenyan Cabinet is over the next two months expected to make a monumental decision over lifting of a ban on genetically modified organisms.

  Tags:GM crop

• "Intelligent spraying generates savings of up to 90% in cost of herbicides" - Interview with Bosch product manager

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

  AgroPages exclusively interviewed Rodrigo Neiva de Lima, Bosch product manager, about "smart application" technologies. The smart application technologies were ...

• Biocide Product Families – Stricter rules in the pipeline!

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

  Eurofins Agroscience Services Ltd.

  Although the revised concept on BPF is yet to be endorsed, applicants should prepare themselves for a more robust, but also a more defined concept of what will ...

• The trade dispute between America and China affects the global agricultural sector

  Date：May. 9, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  US President Donald Trump threatens to further increase US import duties on Chinese goods. Kleff-mann Groups expert Dr. Bob Fairclough, Principal consultant of ...

• Pesticide research must stay transparent and independent

  Date：May. 9, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Getting the best scientific information about the safety of pesticides can be challenging. There is almost always some uncertainty in the science, making it som...

• Korea nurtures seed industry to bolster food security

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

  The government is making every effort to nurture the domestic seed industry, to catch up with advanced countries' growing efforts for food security.