Viewpoint & Interview

• What venture capital looks for in agricultural start-ups

  Date：Nov. 5, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Agricultural start-up firms with great ideas but no funds can tap venture capital firms for cash. Despite the downturn in agriculture, venture capital continues...

• 6 top tomato innovations from Israeli experts

  Date：Nov. 5, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Next time you chop some luscious red tomatoes into your salad or sauce, you can thank Israeli scientists.

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• As we breed crops to grow bigger and faster, they’re less delicious to the bees they depend on

  Date：Nov. 5, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Bees prefer flowers that offer significant rewards, like high quality pollen. If we expect bees to continue spreading pollen on our farms, they need to get some...

• Seed patent growth prompts litigation and licensing fears

  Date：Nov. 5, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  European seed companies prepare for licensing and litigation difficulties as technology allows them to patent more inventions and threatens to stifle the indust...

• GM sugar beets revolutionize industry

  Date：Nov. 5, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Growers say the glyphosate-tolerant varieties have eased crop management and reduced crop’s environmental impact

  Tags:GM crop

• Lim-Loges and Masters: Providing Strategic Counselling in Asia during Challenging Times

  Date：Nov. 1, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  "The Agribusiness sector is our major Practice and we work with Multinational clients based in Asia pacific. Our focus from inputs to retailers give our clients...

• What changes are in store for Brazilian agribusiness from new president Bolsonaro

  Date：Nov. 1, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The election of Jair Messias Bolsonaro as president of Brazil should result in significant changes for Brazilian agribusinesses. This is the opinion of economis...

• Dow: Using Encapsulation Technology to Address the Agrochemical Formulation Trend

  Date：Oct. 31, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The use of microcapsules is well known in chemical art, including pharmaceutical, dye, ink, fragrance, food and agriculture application. In agriculture, encapsu...

• Dutch researcher stays positive despite EU ruling on gene editing

  Date：Oct. 31, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Gene editing, although researched by many scientists in Europe, is considered controversial. The Court of Justice of the European Union recently ruled organisms...

  Tags:Gene Editing

• USA: What about higher yields? A closer look at changing seed expense

  Date：Oct. 31, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Our recent post reviewing trends in corn and soybean seed expense received a lot of attention. A few readers reached out with questions and comments about the d...

• Analysts' views on how new Brazilian president will impact U.S. ag

  Date：Oct. 31, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Analysts are pondering what the election of far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro as Brazil's new president might mean for that country's agricultural industry.

• Cuulong js Company: Expecting to Cooperate with Chinese Partners in the Future

  Date：Oct. 31, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Established in 2001, Cuulong js Company has been building a long-term business strategy which focusing on product quality and perfect service for the benefits o...

• How smart farming is helping Brazil feed the world

  Date：Oct. 30, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Leonardo Sales is a cattle rancher in the arid north of Brazil’s Minas Gerais state. Brazilian farmers like him supply 23% of the world’s cattle, earning $31 ...

• Copper-based Fungicides: Insight Into the Present Scenario and Future Trend

  Date：Oct. 30, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Copper-based fungicides play a decisive role in controlling bacterial diseases, whether evaluated in efficacy or market shares. At the same time, copper-based f...

• Guangxi Tianyuan: Integrated Farming Services to Help Transform and Upgrade China's Agriculture

  Date：Oct. 29, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Guangxi Tianyuan positions itself as an assistant to integrated farming services providers, rather than as an integrated farming services provider. In our opini...

• ADAMA India brings Israeli superior agri technology for Indian market

  Date：Oct. 29, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Uri Rubinstein, CEO, ADAMA India, says “ADAMA India is the unique and successful partnership of India and Israel. We bring the superior agriculture technology ...

• Canada: Farm-saved seed royalties are next battleground

  Date：Oct. 29, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Get ready for a heated debate over royalty payments on farm-saved seed. This contentious issue will be a centre of attention for the Canadian grain sector over ...

• PGG Wrightson Seeds: Benchmarking key to plant breeding

  Date：Oct. 29, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Plant breeding research for pastoral farming has shifted from the likes of AgResearch to private institutions, says Derek Woodfield, GM research and development...

  Tags:GM crop

• Mycogen Seeds: How to use on-farm data for seed selection

  Date：Oct. 29, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  It’s the question we all ask — how do I effectively use all the data, particularly yield information, to formulate decisions for the next growing season and b...

• Wynca: Strengthens development of formulation and adjuvant for UAV application, Nongfeike Platform plays an active role in establishing benign eco-market

  Date：Oct. 26, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In 2017, Wynca conducted restructuring of its research institution, taking into account the agricultural service strategy of the company, thus to move towards i...

• Solvay: Drift Control and Deposition Adjuvants for Agricultural Application

  Date：Oct. 26, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  UAV crop protection is a growing trend worldwide, in particular China, with agricultural drones providing all-in-one solutions primarily for precision farming a...

• What ancient maize can tell us about thousands of years of civilization in America

  Date：Oct. 26, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Movie archaeologists are often pictured triumphantly extracting precious objects from the earth, instantly solving long-standing mysteries.

  Tags:Maize

• Argentina: Enhancing breeders’ IPR by use of molecular markers is a reality

  Date：Oct. 26, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  This week, the Argentina Seed National Institute (INASE as its Spanish acronym) released the Order 109/2018 that improves controls over grain sold by farmers in...

• Effects of Brazilian presidential elections on foreign trade, foreign exchange and economy

  Date：Oct. 26, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Effects of Brazilian presidential elections on foreign trade, foreign exchange and economy

• DJI: Forges premium crop protection UAVs and creates benign eco-market with partners

  Date：Oct. 25, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Up until July 2018, the domestic possessing capacity of DJI’s MG series reached over 16,000 units in total in China. According to third-party statistics, DJI s...

• Farmer finds success with e-commerce; Will buy all seed online

  Date：Oct. 25, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Lance Petersen remembers the first thing he ever bought online—a 1/64th scale Lexion combine. He was about 13 years old and remembers his family had dial up in...

• Syngenta continues to unlock capabilities of UAV systems and refine formulation technology

  Date：Oct. 24, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Pesticide application technologies are advancing rapidly, and our goal at Syngenta is to ensure that these technologies not only increase efficiency, reduce cos...

• China reaping harvest of agricultural R&D

  Date：Oct. 24, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  China is transforming its traditional agriculture sector, using science and technology to drive rural revitalization and modernization.

• Top 20 Chinese Pesticide Companies in 2017: business picking up, level of growth further differentiated

  Date：Oct. 23, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Cathy Shi

  Since 2017, the prices of global farm products from the demand side have shown signs of rebounding, after reaching the bottom. Also the stocks of agrochemical g...

• Where is the way out of small and medium-sized European agrochemical enterprises?

  Date：Oct. 23, 2018 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In this interview, we have bypassed those “super players” in the market and invited the senior executives of some small and medium-sized pure European compani...