Viewpoint & Interview

• Farmers will soon get all weather maize seed: Dr B.M Prasanna

  Date：Feb. 19, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Eminent agriculture scientist, Dr Boddupalli Maruthi Prasanna said that a new variety of Maize seed that can withstand in drought conditions as well as natural ...

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• Bio-herbicides: Global Development Status And Product Inventory

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

  In this article, we hope to help people better understand this market and better grasp the development trend of bio-herbicides by sorting out the current status...

• What is the global market strategy of Nutrichem of oxyfluorfen? -- Interview with Liu Shangzhong, Chief Scientist of Nutrichem

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

  AgroPages interviewed Dr. Liu Shangzhong, chief scientist of Nutrichem, who shared with us the background of Nutrichem’s acquisition of the oxyfluorfen busines...

• Fighting malnutrition: Golden Rice and the EU’s GMO conundrum

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

  “This rice could save a million kids a year”, read the July 2000 cover of Time Magazine, referring to a genetically modified rice, “Golden Rice”, that had b...

  Tags:GM cropRice

• Latino groups vow to fight for ban on pesticide linked to children's health problems

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

  Farmworkers and Latino civil rights groups say they're not backing down from a decadeslong fight to ban chlorpyrifos, a widely used pesticide associated with po...

• BASF: Monsanto is a ‘fierce’ competitor, not a co-conspirator

  Date：Feb. 12, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  BASF’s Agricultural Solutions

  A retired BASF executive told a federal jury on Tuesday that the company never intended to enter into a “joint venture” with Monsanto over the dicamba-toleran...

• Hemp Genetics CEO: Stable THC levels will come with breeding innovation

  Date：Feb. 11, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Society at-large is literally bursting at the seams with interest in hemp and CBD, and the traditional, John Deere-tractor-and-a-bag-of-GMO-seed segment of the ...

• 2019 Overview of Global GMO Development

  Date：Feb. 11, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Compared to the previous two years, the total number of approvals and the number of varieties involved declined, but the number of newly approved varieties rema...

• Technology breeds sustainability on Brazilian family farm

  Date：Feb. 11, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  As Brazilian farmer and attorney Henrique Gustavo Fiorese sees it, the future of agriculture depends on technology and sustainability.

• BASF: The 4R’s has been A Good Start but Embracing Stabilized Nitrogen Fertilizers is the Next Big Step Change

  Date：Feb. 11, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  BASF is a leader in the field of nitrification inhibitors. The DMPP nitrification inhibitor developed by BASF has the advantages of long time and small amount o...

• Biopesticides: Industry Merging with Opportunities, Market Growing through Challenges

  Date：Feb. 10, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Below are novel technologies and related hot news in 2019 as examples, and key players of the industry sharing their views on the challenges and their experienc...

• In agricultural giant Brazil, a new and growing hazard: The illegal trade in pesticides

  Date：Feb. 10, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Over the past two decades, the trafficking of a product as seemingly banal as pesticides has quietly grown into one of the world’s most lucrative and least und...

• India can’t have true reform in agriculture if we keep hitching it to rural development

  Date：Feb. 7, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  While everyone has been focusing on the Narendra Modi government’s budgetary allocations to agriculture, its location in the Budget has just as much to tell us...

• IYPH2020: Why the Agri-Food industry should care about it?

  Date：Feb. 7, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Raghavan Sampathkumar

  The UN announced 2020 as the “International Year of Plant Health (IYPH). While it is easy to dismiss ‘Plant Health’ as a matter limited only to farming, it h...

• Novel Coronavirus | Logistics of China’s agrochemical industry under the influence of epidemic situation

  Date：Feb. 7, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Over the past two days, we were informed by readers in China and abroad that due to traffic control in China and restrictions implemented by foreign ports, the ...

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• Ways tomato growers and breeders can work together to develop high-quality varieties

  Date：Feb. 7, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In the current greenhouse tomato variety market, growers want plants with high yield, good disease resistance, and year-round homogeneous, reliable production.

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• Golden rice takes a big step closer to production reality for those most in need

  Date：Feb. 7, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Golden rice may finally have its day. With a recent ruling in the Philippines that Golden rice is safe for consumption, the island nation could become the first...

  Tags:GM cropRice

• Answers to farmers' top five hemp farming questions

  Date：Feb. 6, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Colorado farmer James Bennett has been growing industrial hemp since 2014. Last year he raised 1,000 acres of industrial hemp across seven states.

• GMO crops should become a bigger part of the food system if we want a sustainable society

  Date：Feb. 6, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Decades have passed since genetic engineering and agriculture were linked positively—in the media at least. We love the idea of a sustainable society but we de...

  Tags:GM crop

• 2019 Overview of Global Registered or Launched Pesticides and Analysis of Key Varieties

  Date：Feb. 6, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In this article, we will review some major events in the global pesticide community in 2019 by sorting out the newly registered or launched key pesticide variet...

• Locust attack: Plague a grim reminder of climate change's reality

  Date：Feb. 5, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Change in cyclonic patterns over the Arabian Sea is behind the locust invasions in east Africa, west and south Asia, experts have said.

• 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, ...

• 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 ...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

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• 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...

• 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.

• 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-...