Viewpoint & Interview

• Syngenta: "There are currently no plans to leave Switzerland"

  Date：Feb. 4, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Syngenta has been in Chinese hands since 2017. The owners made a promise not to relocate the headquarters until five years after the takeover. Will Syngenta sta...

• Overall pesticide usage down, weedkiller atrazine on the rise in Vermont

  Date：Feb. 4, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Vermont’s overall pesticide use in 2018 was the lowest it’s been this decade.The use of atrazine — a weedkiller with serious health and environmental risks ...

• Interpretation of Global Agricultural Market Environment and Analysis of Corporate Strategies for 2019

  Date：Feb. 4, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  As we can see from the practices of Bayer and Syngenta, the fast-evolving digital agriculture sector is not merely blurring traditional competition boundaries, ...

• Nigeria Okays New GM Cowpea Variety – Why it Matters

  Date：Jan. 31, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Late last year the world’s first genetically modified (GM) cowpea was registered and approved for release to smallholder farmers in Nigeria. The new variety ca...

  Tags:GM crop

• The Corona virus scare: What’s in it for investors?

  Date：Jan. 31, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The Corona virus outbreak in China has emerged as the biggest global worry at the moment. This virus if not contained in time may turn into a global epidemic wi...

• Genetics, not field conditions, makes hemp 'go hot'

  Date：Jan. 31, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  As the hemp industry grows, producers face the challenge of cultivating a crop that has received comparatively little scientific study, and that can become unus...

• 20 Mega Trends for 2020 and Beyond

  Date：Jan. 31, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Following a decade with the introduction of societal shifters such as the smartphone and the adoption of robotic milkers, 2020 could be the starting block for t...

• Indian scientists researching the use of seaweed-based biostimulants to increase crop productivity

  Date：Jan. 30, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Dr Arup Ghosh of CSIR – CSMCR (Central Salt and Marine Chemical Research Institute, Bhavnagar, Gujarat, India), has been working on the development of seaweed-...

• The future of Isagro SpA is coming now - Interview with Giorgio Basile

  Date：Jan. 30, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  We will discuss, with Basile, how Isagro has performed over the last nine months and how it will progress in 2020.

• Copa-Cogeca and IBMA: Biocontrol technologies as key part of farmers’ toolbox

  Date：Jan. 29, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Solutions to tackle pest and diseases in the farming sector have been at the top of the policy agenda in the recent years. Biocontrol technologies offer and are...

• Draft genome-editing guidelines are restrictive

  Date：Jan. 29, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In Argentina, which is a large food exporter, if the final plant variety has transgenic material, it is regulated as a genetically-modified organism.

  Tags:Gene Editing

• A wake-up call for the fertilizer industry - At international conference, plant nutrition experts highlight the important role of sustainability

  Date：Jan. 27, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The right time and place Although fertilizer use revolutionized agriculture and allowed farmers to grow better crops on less land, plant nutrients are often ...

• USA - Experts call for overhaul of pesticide regulations

  Date：Jan. 27, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  A 30-year old pesticide risk assessment plan doesn't account for broader ecological impacts. Despite the rigorous regulatory frameworks designed to prevent o...

• Brazil’s big agricultural strategy: pesticides

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

  Last year, the Brazilian National Cancer Institute expected to see about 600,000 new cases of cancer, now Brazil’s second biggest killer. That’s a 75 percent ...

• Kenya: lessons on how to effectively tackle insect invasions

  Date：Jan. 23, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Kenyan food production and grazing land is under threat from a huge desert locust invasion. The insects are currently in two counties in northern Kenya and are ...

• Limagrain: Correct variety choice improves maize success

  Date：Jan. 22, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Taking a risk assessment approach to maize variety choice can help ensure the objectives of the crop are achieved and the return on investment is maximised.

  Tags:Maize

• Interview with the Executive Director, Shri Rajendra Trivedi, National Seed Association of India, New Delhi

  Date：Jan. 22, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Seed is Life! Seed is Culture,Diversity,Tradition and Knowledge.Seed is about Resilence and Survival!

• European Commission in search of ‘robust response’ to gene editing challenge

  Date：Jan. 22, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The EU executive has already prepared the ground for a new initiative on gene editing to overhaul the current GMO legislation, EU agriculture commissioner Phil ...

  Tags:Gene Editing

• Why it is critical to transforming Indian agriculture

  Date：Jan. 22, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The need to scale up agriculture is getting more acute with rising global population. As per UN, by 2050, the world will have 10 billion people, with India acco...

• Good to-the-point answers: "How's your business with China in 2019?"

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

  There are answers brilliantly which can be published as independent articles. The majority of the participants mentioned their worrying about the coming increas...

• Is hemp the new soybean?

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

  CBD is the hemp flavor of the hour, getting the most attention because it’s where many farmers have made money on hemp

  Tags:Soybean

• AG criticizes US EPA over pesticide approval

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

  California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed comments today criticizing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its inadequate risk assessment of...

• “There are many opportunities in the Brasilian market” - Interview with Marcelo Habe (Marketing Director of Nufarm Brasil)

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

  Nufarm Brasil Limited

  We spoke exclusively to Marcelo Habe, who will take over this month as the new Marketing Director of Nufarm Brasil. He talked about his time at the company, as ...

• Overview of Global Stabilized Nitrogen Fertilizer Development, Mainstream Products

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

  The increasing use of nitrogen fertilizers always follows the modernization of agriculture. However, only 40% to 60% of the total amount of nitrogen fertilizers...

  Tags:Organic Certification

• Improved sorghum hybrids for 2020

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

  New sorghum hybrids are developed and released by seed companies at a pace that tends to be slower than some other crops. However, in the last two years, the in...

• Burkina Faso “farmer of the year” calls for return of Bt cotton

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

  Wiledio Naboho, the 2019 Alliance for Science Farmer of the Year, is mounting fresh pressure on the Burkina Faso government to permit the re-introduction of gen...

• Market potential and challenges in soil amendment sector — How TRADECORP respond

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

  Tradecorp Nutri-Performance

  AgroPages recently invited Tradecorp to talk about market potential and challenges in soil amendment sector, particularly for humid acids, and how they respond ...

• US Agricultural Retailers Association supports phase one of US-China Trade Agreement

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

  The Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA) Board of Directors Chairman Rod Wells of GROWMARK attended the signing of the much-anticipated Phase One trade agre...

• Trends and tips for variety selection

  Date：Jan. 15, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The breeding progress is more in maize than in other crops. In a German study, the annual yield increase of 1.6 dt / ha was measured in the official tests of th...

• (R)evolution in plant breeding: new options for better photosynthesis

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

  It seems so logical: each plant carries chloroplasts that contribute to the optimum growth and development of the plant. At least that is what has always been a...