Viewpoint & Interview

• Artificial intelligence and farmer knowledge boost smallholder maize yields

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

  Data-driven agriculture can increase smallholder production threatened by weather and climate change, but data scientists need to work with farmers and governme...

• US EPA's stance on glyphosate may affect legal, regulatory outcomes

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

  The glyphosate (aka Roundup) carcinogen controversy isn’t over yet, but the EPA’s stance on direct exposure may affect regulatory and legal outcomes on residu...

• Bharat Group – Way Forward By Pushing Backward

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

  Bharat Group

  Bharat Group is one of the largest manufacturers of Technical grade pesticides, Intermediates and Formulations with annual turnover exceeding USD 250 million. U...

• Challenges and solutions with Biorationals in the field

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

  From political, retail and consumer perspectives there is a clear push to make all sectors of food production less dependent on conventional chemical crop prote...

• Krishi Rasayan Group: “Farmer’s Prosperity is our priority”

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

  Krishi Rasayan Group of Companies

  Krishi Rasayan Group was established in the year 1966. Now it has 8 manufacturing plants located in different parts of the country. It is a 53 years old group w...

• Observation of North African Market: Morocco moves towards environment friendly agrochemicals to support ‘Green Moroccan Plan’

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

  North Africa is one of the continent’s key agrochemical markets. However, due to the lack of detailed market data from the industry and the region’s complicat...

• Syngenta top woman: Current agriculture is no longer possible

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

  Syngenta wants to make nature and society a leader in innovation. According to top woman Alexandra Brand, there should no longer be a contradiction between agri...

• India faces the risk of a decline in growth of crop yields

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

  Environmentally unsustainable farm practices and weather variations are to blame. An innovative system based on indigenous and traditional knowledge that enhanc...

• Registration of biopesticide products worldwide and their role in the new agricultural model

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

  In 1950, the world population was estimated to stand at 2.6 billion people. 30 years later, that figure had reached 4.4 billion, according to UN figures. From t...

• The Philippines are entering the ‘age of a new agricultural revolution’, says Agriculture Secretary William Dar

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

  ‘Indeed, we are now entering the age of a new agricultural revolution,” Agriculture Secretary William Dar said in his speech at the “Symposium on Risk Assess...

  Tags:Gene Editing

• Development of “Indian Agriculture” and “Indian Agrochemical Industry”

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

  Pesticides Manufacturers & Formulators Assocoation of India(PMFAI)

  As far as Indian Pesticide Industry’s concerned, India currently is 4th largest global producer of Pesticides after USA, Japan and China. Domestic consumption...

• Observation of North African Market: Market access not easy in Egypt, government encourages safer pesticides

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

  North Africa is one of the continent’s key agrochemical markets. However, due to the lack of detailed market data from the industry and the region’s complicat...

• SCC: The Current State of Biopesticide and Fertilizer Regulation in EU

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

  We know that Scientific Consulting Company (SCC) is one of Europe’s largest privately owned and independent regulatory consulting companies on agrochemicals an...

• How Brazilian government’s agility in approving crop protection products can increase profits for farmers

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

  Renato Seraphim

  In the last 18 years, the total production cost of soybean in Brazil increased by 178% while productivity grew by 28%. Taking the cost of pesticides into accoun...

• What’s in a Name? The Plant-Based Foods Labeling Debate

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

  Meatless meat is going mainstream. Fueled by sustainability concerns and an uptick in capital, food tech start-ups have been hard at work crafting new methods o...

• Bio Controle, a new alternative company in Brazil - Interview with Ari Gitz, Director

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

  Founded in 1997 by professionals with experience in the field of pest control, Bio Controle is prominently known in the Brazilian pesticide market. It offers a ...

• Whole Industry Chain to Guarantee High-quality Pyrethroids Products: Heranba

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

  Heranba Industries Ltd.

  Heranba Industries Limited, established in the year 1996 with a mission to improve crop productivity and to provide products to farmers that enhance farm effic...

• Biolchim: Three Big Pillars Lead Company’s Leadership in the Biostimulant Market

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

  Biolchim S.p.A. is a leader in the production of Special Fertilisers and biostimulant, nowadays considered among the most important in Italy and the most dynami...

• “Vine-ripened round tomato changes North American tomato industry”

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

  “We believe we have developed a field-tomato variety that changes the industry,” says Bryan Zingel with Sakata Seed America. “In terms of quality, the domest...

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• Seed breeding takes in growers of all sizes

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

  The challenge of breeding vegetable seeds for a modern world encompasses more than just high yields and good taste.

• Brexit and the Plant Protection Products Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009, and the Maximum Residue Levels Regulation (EC) No 396/2005

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

  As the deadline for the UK exiting the EU (‘Brexit’) draws closer, the uncertainty over whether we will leave with or without a deal remains. Having spent mo...

• Land O'Lakes CEO: Farmers Mitigate Market Pressure with Technology

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

  In an interview with Lesley Stahl from 60 Minutes over the weekend, Land O Lakes CEO Beth Ford addressed the struggles farmers are feeling. She also highlighted...

• Current status and future prospects of biological control - Interview with Casa Bugre | Agrivalle

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

  Agrivalle Brasil Indústria e Comércio de Produtos Agrícolas Ltda.

  In an exclusive interview with Portfolio Manager of Casa Bugre | Agrivalle, Wagner Coladel, a player that gains relevance in the Brazilian market, he spoke abou...

• Ecolibrium Biologicals: Accepting Mediocrity in Efficacy And Shelf Life at a Time When the Biopesticide Industry Must Strive for Excellence

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

  As the company's founder and technical director, Stephen Ford has a different understanding of the biopesticide market and research and development. Recently, A...

• Haltermann Carless Caromax® Range: Supporting the Agrochemical formulations of the future

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

  Haltermann Carless (HCS Group) leading international provider of solutions for high-value specialty hydrocarbons. We currently operate state of the art refining...

• Biological Control Agents (BCA), a rising star

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

  Industrias Químicas del Vallés, S.A. (IQV)

  In a society committed to health and preserving the environment, farmers are increasingly choosing pesticides derived from natural materials.

• Family-owned Beck’s unfazed by multinational seed rivals

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

  A seed is an appropriate metaphor for Beck’s Hybrids, while its competitors in the fast-consolidating farm-seed industry might be compared to the towering plan...

• Top 20 Indian Agrochemical Companies in FY 2018-19: Backwards Integration, Forwards “OpenAg”

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

  FY 2018-19 was a challenging year to Indian agrochemical enterprises. Though the Indian economy continues to be one of the world’s fastest growing economies, t...

• Nutrien Ag solutions looks to grow the world from the ground up

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

  Nutrien Ltd

  Nutrien Ag Solutions, headquartered in Loveland, Colorado, Canada is a combination of many companies that have become one in the last 75 years.

• We want up to 10% of Syngenta revenue to come from India: CEO J Erik Fyrwald

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

  Syngenta Crop Protection AG

  Fyrwald, who was at Eluru to inaugurate a facility for product testing and development, said India is a critical market for Syngenta.