Viewpoint & Interview

• Interview with José Nolasco about the role of “Iron Chelates for Preventing Iron Deficiencies and Improving Crop Yields”

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

  Jose Nolasco, Strategy and Innovation Director at Tradecorp International, will be giving a speech at the Argus Added Value Fertilizers Europe in Barcelona. His...

• How a Philippines regulator stymied DowDuPont's global seed launch

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

  A Philippines regulator poses an unexpected obstacle to DowDuPont’s launch of a new line of genetically engineered soybeans in the United States as the company...

  Tags:GM cropSoybean

• USA: Seed Quality Issues a Concern in 2019 Soybeans

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

  Damp weather conditions can lead to damaged soybean seeds.

  Tags:Soybean

• Brazil Ag Minister to allow Commercial Ag on Indigenous Lands

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

  The new Brazilian Minister of Agriculture, Tereza Cristina, recently proposed in an interview with Reuters that indigenous peoples in Brazil should be allowed t...

• Egypt poised to again lead Africa in ag biotech innovation

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

  When will Egypt again lead Africa in agricultural biotech innovation? That question kept running through my mind when I visited the North African country late l...

  Tags:GM cropBiotech

• How Bt cotton can revive collapsed textile industry

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

  The first results of the national performance trials (NPT) of genetically modified (GM) cotton done by the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Services (Kephis) in ...

  Tags:GM cropCotton

• Trade tensions between the US, China creating uncertainty in the world economy and cotton market

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

  National Cotton Council economists point to a few key factors that will shape the U.S. cotton industry's 2019 economic outlook. This past year can be characteri...

  Tags:Cotton

• Chia Tai: Understanding the needs of customers along the value chain of Thailand agriculture

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

  AGROPAGES recently interviewed Mr. Kornkanok Chantakitwattana, the Vice President of Plant Protection Business of CHIA TAI CO., LTD. in Thailand. He introduced ...

• Uncertainties in US-China Trade War Cause Anxiety among Global Soybean Industry

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

  To have a relatively more comprehensive understanding of the impact of this white war on the global soybean industry from the perspective of the subjects involv...

  Tags:Soybean

• American Soybean Association urges congress to end tariffs

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

  Talks are good, purchases are good, but lifting the tariff that China imposed last July on soybean imports from the United States is the only way for U.S. soybe...

  Tags:Soybean

• USA - Cotton farmers should beware of increased herbicide resistance

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

  Georgia cotton producers face two great weed control challenges this season — how to minimize the development of herbicide resistance and mitigating off-target...

  Tags:Dicamba2,4-D

• Why do we need to keep breeding new crop varieties?

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

  Global warming and changes in the amount – and location – of water, are key factors in the need to continue crop breeding programs.

• Biocide Regulations – Life Before the BPR

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

  Eurofins Agroscience Services Ltd.

  If you’re new to the world of biocides and the Biocidal Products Regulation (EC) No 528/2012 (also known as the BPR) you might hear people refer to the BPD, 98...

• Scientist empowers farmers to breed their own seeds

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

  If you’re a farmer, there’s an easy way to obtain seeds, and there’s a hard way.

• UK farming faces 'barrier to innovation' due to EU gene editing ruling

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

  Scientists and farmers have warned of the “barrier to innovation” facing British farming following the European Court of Justice’s ruling on gene editing, bu...

  Tags:Gene Editing

• Ag technology: The next wave of consolidation

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

  The last few years, agriculture has been dominated by headlines of mergers and acquisitions by and between some of the largest agricultural companies in the wor...

• Genetic Mapping Offers New Promise for Proso Millet

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

  Proso millet could become a key crop in water-limited areas now that its genome has been sequenced, opening the door greater and more rapid yield improvements t...

• Fera: The future of the nanoparticle

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

  Fera Science Ltd

  It is entirely conceivable that the engineered nanoparticles that seem like today's water treatment panacea, could be tomorrow's ecological dynamite. The potent...

• Does diversity help with weed control and herbicide resistance?

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

  Dr Ken Flower has been managing a long-term farming systems trial in Cunderdin WA that is demonstrating how diversity in weed control tactics is essential acros...

• Brazil eyes new law for agrochemicals

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

  Brazil is one of the largest pesticide consumers and agricultural commodity exporters in the world. The country is now fiercely debating updating its agrochemic...

• In 1-2 years, UPL expects benefits from Arysta buy to start kicking in

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

  UPL Limited

  UPL has been growing at a CAGR of about 15%, whereas the industry has been growing at about 4-4.5%. Vikram Shroff, Executive Director, Sameer Tandon, Director-I...

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• New tool a boost for crop protection in challenging vineyards

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

  On the steep slopes of California’s Napa Valley, labor shortages, as well as unique weather and soil conditions, combine to create significant challenges to vi...

• Is China Really Buying 10 MMT of U.S. Soybeans?

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

  During President Trump’s talk with Vice Premier Liu He in the Oval Office during the latest round of trade talks, a simple handshake caused quite the stir. As ...

• New journal article calls for responsible use of herbicides by rice farmers in Africa

  Date：Feb. 1, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  A new publication, led by experts from the Natural Resources Institute (NRI, University of Greenwich) and the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), calls for effecti...

  Tags:Rice

• High expectations for GMO rice research in Ghana

  Date：Feb. 1, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Both farmers and the Ghanaian scientists now conducting field trials of genetically modified (GM) rice believe the improved variety will better the lives of sma...

  Tags:GM cropRice

• The Read on Seed: What’s Next for Suppliers After Mega-Mergers?

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

  Regarding the state of the seed business, the only sure bet heading into the new year revolves around mystery.

• Australia Might Have the Answer to Herbicide-Resistant ‘Superweeds’

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

  Australian farmers have also tried to increase the competitiveness of their crops by experimenting with row spacing and higher planting densities. And they’re ...

• 2018 Chinese Pesticide Exports Analysis - Southeast Asia

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

  From January to November 2018, a total of 1.2412 million tons of pesticides were exported from China, valued at $7.093 billion. The export volume decreased 7%, ...

• Scientist from Fera Science identifies current threats to freshwater fish

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

  Freshwater fish are the most endangered group of animals on the planet, with more than a third of species at risk of extinction. Dr Rachael Benstead, senior aqu...

• Interview with Fábio Passos, launch leader of Intacta 2 Xtend soybeans in Brazil

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

  The third generation of genetically modified soybeans in Brazil will expand control of caterpillars to include two more species that are of concern to the Brazi...