Viewpoint & Interview

• Eden Research: Sustaine ™ encapsulation technology makes formulations more efficient and safer

  Date：Feb. 24, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Recently, Eden Research and Corteva Agriscience signed A new agreement for the Eden Research’ Sustaine™ encapsulation technology. The exclusive evaluation ag...

• Corteva Agriscience says advanced plant breeding shows path to greater climate resilience and food security

  Date：Feb. 21, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Corteva Agriscience Global Plant Breeding Leader Geoff Graham told attendees of the 2020 USDA Ag Outlook Forum that advanced plant breeding techniques and prove...

• President of Embrapa defends partnerships with private sector, reveals 5 bets for 2020

  Date：Feb. 21, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation)

  "In a private world, the word ‘change’ is the keynote, but for us in the public sector, change causes chills.” With this sentence, the new president of the B...

• What to Watch for in 2020 Crop Genetics

  Date：Feb. 21, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Two decades ago, we were waking up and celebrating that our computers didn’t melt down on New Year’s Day. We could still tote a bottle of iced tea through an ...

• Novel Coronavirus | Friends from the global agrochemical industry send blessing videos to China

  Date：Feb. 21, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  As a global agrochemical media based in China, AgroPages has received greeting and encouragement videos from friends all over the world, which is very touching....

• Use of Novel Nitrogen Management Technology to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions

  Date：Feb. 20, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Active AgriScience

  The increased use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer is one of the important contributors to increased N2O emissions in recent decades. The agriculture sector rep...

• Agrochemical Industry in China: From Self-reliance to Export to Discovery & Development

  Date：Feb. 20, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  As expected, China moved from self-reliance in pesticides through its manufacturing to gaining expertise in manufacturing leading to an increase in export. The ...

• Minister of Agriculture says that Brazil’s relationship with China is strong

  Date：Feb. 19, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The relationship with China is solid and the agreement reached between the country and the United States “will not have catastrophic repercussions” for Brazil...

• PMFAI views on “The Pesticides Management Bill (PMB 2020)”

  Date：Feb. 19, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The Union Cabinet approved “Pesticides Management Bill (PMB)” on 11th February 2020 (which is to replace Insecticides Act 1968) and the PMB is likely to be in...

• Farmers will soon get all weather maize seed: Dr B.M Prasanna

  Date：Feb. 19, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Eminent agriculture scientist, Dr Boddupalli Maruthi Prasanna said that a new variety of Maize seed that can withstand in drought conditions as well as natural ...

  Tags:Maize

• Bio-herbicides: Global Development Status And Product Inventory

  Date：Feb. 17, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In this article, we hope to help people better understand this market and better grasp the development trend of bio-herbicides by sorting out the current status...

  Tags:Organic Certification

• Fighting malnutrition: Golden Rice and the EU’s GMO conundrum

  Date：Feb. 14, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  “This rice could save a million kids a year”, read the July 2000 cover of Time Magazine, referring to a genetically modified rice, “Golden Rice”, that had b...

  Tags:GM cropRice

• Latino groups vow to fight for ban on pesticide linked to children's health problems

  Date：Feb. 14, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Farmworkers and Latino civil rights groups say they're not backing down from a decadeslong fight to ban chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide associated with po...

• What is the global market strategy of Nutrichem of oxyfluorfen? -- Interview with Liu Shangzhong, Chief Scientist of Nutrichem

  Date：Feb. 14, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  AgroPages interviewed Dr. Liu Shangzhong, chief scientist of Nutrichem, who shared with us the background of Nutrichem’s acquisition of the oxyfluorfen busines...

• BASF: Monsanto is a ‘fierce’ competitor, not a co-conspirator

  Date：Feb. 12, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  BASF Agricultural Solutions

  A retired BASF executive told a federal jury on Tuesday that the company never intended to enter into a “joint venture” with Monsanto over the dicamba-toleran...

• 2019 Overview of Global GMO Development

  Date：Feb. 11, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Compared to the previous two years, the total number of approvals and the number of varieties involved declined, but the number of newly approved varieties rema...

• Hemp Genetics CEO: Stable THC levels will come with breeding innovation

  Date：Feb. 11, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Society at-large is literally bursting at the seams with interest in hemp and CBD, and the traditional, John Deere-tractor-and-a-bag-of-GMO-seed segment of the ...

• Technology breeds sustainability on Brazilian family farm

  Date：Feb. 11, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  As Brazilian farmer and attorney Henrique Gustavo Fiorese sees it, the future of agriculture depends on technology and sustainability.

• BASF: The 4R’s has been A Good Start but Embracing Stabilized Nitrogen Fertilizers is the Next Big Step Change

  Date：Feb. 11, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  BASF is a leader in the field of nitrification inhibitors. The DMPP nitrification inhibitor developed by BASF has the advantages of long time and small amount o...

• In agricultural giant Brazil, a new and growing hazard: The illegal trade in pesticides

  Date：Feb. 10, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Over the past two decades, the trafficking of a product as seemingly banal as pesticides has quietly grown into one of the world’s most lucrative and least und...

• Biopesticides: Industry Emerging with Opportunities, Market Growing through Challenges

  Date：Feb. 10, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Below are novel technologies and related hot news in 2019 as examples, and key players of the industry sharing their views on the challenges and their experienc...

  Tags:Organic Certification

• Novel Coronavirus | Logistics of China’s agrochemical industry under the influence of epidemic situation

  Date：Feb. 7, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Over the past two days, we were informed by readers in China and abroad that due to traffic control in China and restrictions implemented by foreign ports, the ...

  Tags:Novel Coronavirus

• Ways tomato growers and breeders can work together to develop high-quality varieties

  Date：Feb. 7, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In the current greenhouse tomato variety market, growers want plants with high yield, good disease resistance, and year-round homogeneous, reliable production.

  Tags:Fruits and VegetablesOrganic Certification

• India can’t have true reform in agriculture if we keep hitching it to rural development

  Date：Feb. 7, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  While everyone has been focusing on the Narendra Modi government’s budgetary allocations to agriculture, its location in the Budget has just as much to tell us...

• Golden rice takes a big step closer to production reality for those most in need

  Date：Feb. 7, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Golden rice may finally have its day. With a recent ruling in the Philippines that Golden rice is safe for consumption, the island nation could become the first...

  Tags:GM cropRice

• IYPH2020: Why the Agri-Food industry should care about it?

  Date：Feb. 7, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Raghavan Sampathkumar

  The UN announced 2020 as the “International Year of Plant Health (IYPH). While it is easy to dismiss ‘Plant Health’ as a matter limited only to farming, it h...

• Answers to farmers' top five hemp farming questions

  Date：Feb. 6, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Colorado farmer James Bennett has been growing industrial hemp since 2014. Last year he raised 1,000 acres of industrial hemp across seven states.

• GMO crops should become a bigger part of the food system if we want a sustainable society

  Date：Feb. 6, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Decades have passed since genetic engineering and agriculture were linked positively—in the media at least. We love the idea of a sustainable society but we de...

  Tags:GM crop

• 2019 Overview of Global Registered or Launched Pesticides and Analysis of Key Varieties

  Date：Feb. 6, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In this article, we will review some major events in the global pesticide community in 2019 by sorting out the newly registered or launched key pesticide variet...

• Locust attack: Plague a grim reminder of climate change's reality

  Date：Feb. 5, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Change in cyclonic patterns over the Arabian Sea is behind the locust invasions in east Africa, west and south Asia, experts have said.