Viewpoint & Interview

• India should use Israeli model of drip irrigation system; suggests Indian expert

  Date：Aug. 21, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  India should adopt Israel's model of drip irrigation system as it is based on farmers' requirements and is not industry-designed like the one used in the countr...

• “There will be big expansion of inoculants in Brazil” - Exclusive interview with José Roberto, President of ANPII

  Date：Aug. 21, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Brazil National Association of Inoculant Producers and Importers (ANPII)

  José Roberto, president of the Brazil National Association of Inoculant Producers and Importers (ANPII) granted an exclusive interview with AgroPages, in which...

• “Fulland boosts fungicide performance in coffee” - Interview with Satis research manager Aedyl Lauar

  Date：Aug. 20, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Satis

  AgroPages exclusively interviewed Aedyl Lauar, research manager of Satis, a Brazilian crop nutrition company. Lauar highlighted the main problems in coffee crop...

• Putting the Cart before the Horse, India Agri policy

  Date：Aug. 20, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The 2019 union budget has neither proposed any bold policy moves, nor any big allocations for investments in the agri-food sector. What it has is massive welfar...

• UPL to invest US$ 200 million in Brazil in 5 years - Interview with UPL Marketing Director in Brazil, Marcelo Zanchi

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In an exclusive interview with AgroPages, UPL marketing director Marcelo Zanchi outlined the main changes planned by the company following the acquisition of Ar...

• “Eyes on Latin America market: Koppert invests in inoculants” - Interview with Gustavo Herrmann

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The inoculant market is estimated at 120 million doses per year in Mercosur. As it is interested in this potential, Koppert has recently acquired the Argentine ...

• A double-digit investment in the agricultural sector is needed to transform agriculture in Nigeria, says the Director General of IITA

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

  A double-digit investment in the agricultural sector backed by a vibrant rural infrastructural network will help states in Nigeria to accelerate the transformat...

• ‘Agri-input distributors in Brazil must use e-commerce’, says Luft Solutions

  Date：Aug. 19, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  “E-commerce is a sales channel that cannot be ignored, as it accounted for 12% of worldwide sales last year and moved $61 billion in goods in Brazil in 2018, a...

• Thailand Minister wants paraquat, glyphosate and chlorpyrifos banned this year

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

  Toxic chemicals used as herbicide, namely paraquat, glyphosate and insecticide, chlorpyrifos, must be banned within this year, Public Health Minister Anutin Cha...

• India: Time to seed the world

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

  For better prosperity of the agriculture sector, the Government must allow farmers market access and promote Indian varieties globally

• 'There are opportunities for Brazil in China', says Vitor Raposo

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

  During the 9th Andav Congress held this week in the city of São Paulo (Brazil), AgroPages had the opportunity to speak to various players in the agrochemical i...

• New breeding technologies needed to meet skyrocketing demand for wheat, scientists warn

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

  New technologies and policies are needed to meet the skyrocketing demand for wheat, which is expected to increase 50 to 60 percent by 2050.

  Tags:wheat

• Amvac sees Brazil as prime user of new pesticide application system

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

  Amvac do Brasil

  Executives at agrochemical company American Vanguard Corp, or Amvac, believe farmers in Brazil will become the prime users of a new pesticide application system...

• Number of agrochemical registrations in Brazil not related to volume applied on crops

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

  A brief analysis of official data is enough to conclude that the false relationship between agrochemical sales and registration numbers is not supported. Among ...

• Weed Science Society issues statement concerning registration of glyphosate

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

  The board of directors of the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) issued a statement supporting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) science-base...

  Tags:Glyphosate

• Over 2.5 million hectares of soybean crops treated with bionematicides last season in Brazil

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

  Over 2.5 million hectares of soybean crops in Brazil were treated with bionematicides during the 2018-2019 crop season, revealing an upward trend in the use of ...

• "Excessive Data Protection in Indian agrochemical industry goes against 'MAKE IN INDIA' ", comments PMFAI

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

  PMFAI strongly oppose the point on “Data Protection” for agrochemicals, which is raked up again and again by a section who ultimately support MNCs agenda for ...

• PMFAI: Not optimistic about success of Zero Budget Natural Farming(ZBNF) in current Indian farming

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

  PMFAI is not optimistic about success of ZBNF in Indian farming, particularly in high land farming. Looking at the scenario and the needs, it is high time the ...

• Brazil's faster agrochemical approvals not harming environment: minister

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

  Brazil’s Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina Dias, responding to criticism from environmentalists, on Monday said the government’s recent accelerated approva...

• Today's top 5 agtech investing trends

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

  The agricultural landscape has never looked more unpredictable, and deep changes may be on the way.

• 'Latest decision of US government directly affects agrochemicals sector in Brazil', says CEO of SRM Chemical

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

  One of the highlights of the 12th Brazil AgrochemShow held last week in Sao Paulo, Brazil, was a lecture by Dr. Paul Smith, PhD, CEO of SRM Chemical, USA. Speak...

• Fight against soybean cyst nematode broadens

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

  The clock is ticking to find new ways to fight soybean cyst nematode (SCN).

  Tags:Soybean

• “It is time to invest in Brazil,” says investment strategist

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

  “Brazil lived through almost a decade of pessimism and decreasing levels of investment, the so-called ‘Bear Market,’ but this contagious negativity no longer...

• Stop burning fields to cut smog and boost profits, scientists tell Indian farmers

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

  Every year, a choking smog descends on northwest India as the region’s farmers burn their fields following the rice harvest - a phenomenon that has helped make...

• NAFDAC moves to sanitise Nigerian agrochemical market

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

  The National Agency for Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has called for mandatory listing of agro-chemical dealers in the country with the view to curbi...

• View: Empowering farmers is important

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

  Soaring temperatures due to climate change, smaller size arable land holdings, scarce water resources, as well as low grade and spurious products jostling for s...

• Latin America Sees Improving Pesticide Regulatory Environment

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

  Latin America, an important pesticide market in the world, has not fully recovered from the downturn in past years, but the regulatory environment, policies and...

• América Latina: mejoras en el entorno regulatorio de pesticidas

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

  América Latina, un importante mercado de pesticidas en el mundo, no se ha recuperado completamente de la desaceleración de los últimos años, pero su entorno...

• 11 food, grain, other groups call for regulatory transparency on gene editing

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

  The Corn Refiners Association (CRA) and 11 other food and agriculture associations, representing a broad cross section of the U.S. food and agriculture value ch...

• Protect Bacillus thuringiensis against environmental conditions with new materials from Dow

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

  The Dow Chemical Company

  Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is one of the most commonly used microbial pesticides and currently represents the largest share of the biopesticides market. Bt is ...