Viewpoint & Interview

• Hemp farmers tailoring new genetics for different growing regions throughout US

  Date：Jun. 24, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The breeding of hemp varieties is ramping up among plant breeders and at hemp farms with established research-and-development departments.

• iFormulate: The Challenges of Biopesticide Formulation

  Date：Jun. 24, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Aided by a favourable regulatory climate, as well as by concerns about conventional pesticides, the biopesticide market continues to grow. The global market is...

• Replace soy with alfalfa! - Scientists investigate options for more sustainable protein production

  Date：Jun. 24, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Soybean production is wearing it’s big boy shoes – you can tell from the footprint it leaves on the climate and the environment.

  Tags:SoybeanOrnamental and Turf

• Ghana: 'Strictly Enforce Pesticides and Fertiliser Act'

  Date：Jun. 24, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Africa Needs International (ANI), an international non-governmental organisation, is calling for the strict compliance of the Pesticides and Fertiliser Act (Act...

• India farmers fear loss, not arrest, and seed illegal Bt cotton

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

  As an increasing number of farmers from Marathwada and Vidarbha, under the aegis of Shetkari Sangathana, defy the ban on specific varieties of Bt cotton, Vasant...

  Tags:GM cropCotton

• American Soybean Assn testifies on impacts of trade war

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

  American Soybean Association

  American Soybean Association (ASA) Board Member and Missouri farmer Ronnie Russell appeared yesterday before the House Financial Services Committee Subcommittee...

• EBIC president: education crucial to growth of biostimulants industry

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

  European Biostimulants Industry Consortium (EBIC)

  Luca Bonini knows there are short- and long-term challenges facing the biostimulants industry. As the new President of the European Biostimulants Industry Counc...

• "We will see significant productivity growth with better use of technologies" - Interview with Daniel Bachner

  Date：Jun. 18, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  AgroPages exclusively interviewed Daniel Bachner, a former senior executive at the multinational agrochemical company, Syngenta, and who now works as a successf...

• Speeding breeding and other ways of feeding 10 billion people

  Date：Jun. 18, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Improvements to make crops more nutritious, disease resistant and climate smart are essential to feed a burgeoning world population.

• Genetic resistance traits and how to protect them

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

  Remy has been a popular variety but has come under pressure in recent times.

• Market trends and breeding innovation charting the path for indoor farming

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

  A unique opportunity for over 300 thought leaders to come together and advance the sustainability, profitability and health-focus of the indoor trend that’s ch...

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• Indigo CEO: Agriculture can reverse climate change and livestock farming has an important role

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

  Indigo AG

  Today, Indigo launched the Terraton Initiative, a goal to sequester one trillion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by adopting "regenerative agricultur...

• Dow: High performance oil dispersion adjuvant development

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

  Oil dispersion (OD) formulation is an emerging formulation in Ag industry, which is claimed as environmental friendly, better pesticide efficacy than water-base...

• Intelichem Group: Providing complete solution for crops, complementing food supply chain in South Africa

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

  AGROPAGES interviewed Mr. Gideon Hefer, CEO of the Intelichem Group, a leading agricultural company in South Africa. He introduced the current challenges and fu...

• Making good even better: Adding micronutrients to seed coatings

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

  High-performance coating technologies for improved flowability, sowability, and adhesion as well as differentiation through coloring: This is what Bayer SeedGro...

  Tags:Seed treatment

• The Application and Development of Pesticide Precision in Japan

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

  Yamabiko

  The agricultural working population has been decreasing in Japan. On the other hand, the average age of farmers has been increasing. These factors have caused ...

• UPL presents Orthene systemic insecticide in Brazil: Interview with Sérgio Chidi

  Date：Jun. 3, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  AgroPages exclusively interviewed Sérgio Chidi, leader of insecticides at UPL Brazil. He spoke about the advantages of the Orthene insecticide, which is being ...

  Tags:UPLInsecticidesAcephate

• Argentines buying more agrochemicals this harvest

  Date：Jun. 3, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Red Surcos S.A.

  The sale of inputs for the next agricultural season of 2019/20, which will begin in a few days with the planting of wheat, is showing significant growth compare...

• Companies seek clarity on breeding innovation to stay in EU

  Date：Jun. 3, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  A number of breeding companies have promised to relocate their advanced mutagenesis breeding programmes outside Europe and others will follow if nothing is done...

  Tags:GM cropGene Editing

• Royalty-free genes reduce GMO seed costs in Africa

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

  Smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa will be able to access improved seeds at low cost, thanks to the use of royalty-free genes in genetically modified (GM...

  Tags:GM crop

• How drone data significantly improves seed breeding and seed production

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

  Seed companies around the world deploy drone solutions to collect high throughput plant data and unlock the phenotyping bottleneck with aerial drone data.

• The top 12 ways Israel is feeding the world

  Date：May. 28, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Food security is a critical concern as the global population expands and natural resources dwindle. Smart solutions for more efficient farming, hardier crops, a...

• Why are Brassica crops so susceptible to Black Rot?

  Date：May. 24, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  V-shaped yellow sectors on the leaf edges and blackening of the leaf veins in Brassica crops such as broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, radishes or waterc...

• Dr Nicolas Taylor: Developing salt-tolerant wheat

  Date：May. 24, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Salinity threatens to reduce wheat yields across the West Australian Wheatbelt and is a major threat to the world’s arable land, agricultural productivity and ...

  Tags:wheat

• Exclusive: Brazil Ag Minister on first visit to China, seeks closer trade partnership

  Date：May. 24, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Last week, AgroPages attended SIAL China 2019 in Shanghai, where AgroPages was honored to have an interview with Tereza Cristina, the Brazilian Minister of Agri...

• Did you know that treated seeds perform better?

  Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Treated seed has a much better chance of thriving under adverse conditions when untreated seed might be challenged.

  Tags:Seed treatmentOrnamental and Turf

• “Innovation at Syngenta through development of organic products' - says sustainability officer

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

  Xavier Leprince, who is responsible for Sustainability at Syngenta, announced that it will accelerate the company's innovation process. The goal, according to L...

• Blocked by GMO politics, African scientist turns to 1950s technology

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

  Africa’s uneasy history with agricultural biotechnology can be summed up by what’s growing, and not growing, on a small research farm in central Malawi, one o...

  Tags:GM crop

• "Biological control grows in Brazil and earns producers’ confidence" - Sérgio Abud, from Embrapa

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

  Biologist Sérgio Abud, supervisor of the Embrapa Cerrados technology transfer area, notes that biological control is the best tool for sustainable agricultural...

• Smart Farm Policies in Korea

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

  The Smart Farm government policy started with the rapid opening of the oversea market with trading economies such as the US and the EU has progressed rapidly. I...