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• UPL Q4 results: Net profit zooms 147% to Rs 617 crore; announces Rs 6 dividend

  Date：May. 25, 2020 Category：Companies

  UPL Limited on Friday posted 146.80 per cent year-on-year (YoY) rise in net profit at Rs 617 crore for the quarter ended March 31. It had posted a net profit of...

• AcreNext Rice Farming by Corteva Agriscience

  Date：May. 25, 2020 Category：Companies

  Corteva Agriscience

  Understanding the plight of poor and distressed farmers in paddy growing areas of India, the Corteva Agriscience came up with a program to promote direct-seeded...

• Government’s Proposal To Ban 27 Pesticides Will Hurt Agrochemical Firms And Farmers, Analysts Say

  Date：May. 25, 2020 Category：Markets

  If the proposal gets implemented in the current form, it will have a significant negative impact on the agrochemical industry's sales and profits, K Ravichandra...

• US EPA proposes registration of new active ingredient and biopesticide product

  Date：May. 25, 2020 Category：Regulations

  EPA is opening the 15-day comment period on a proposal to register the new active ingredient Ea peptide 91398 and the biopesticide product PHC-91398, which woul...

• Ethiopia, possible mirror of Argentina

  Date：May. 25, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  What happens in Ethiopia encourages us to reflect on what is happening in other parts of the world, our Argentina among them. The times to come after this "coro...

• Bayer CropScience Q4 results: Posts net profit of Rs 31.5 crore

  Date：May. 25, 2020 Category：Companies

  Bayer CropScience Ltd on Friday reported a net profit of Rs 31.5 crore in the fourth quarter of 2019-20 fiscal on strong revenue. The company had posted a ne...

• NACL Industries achieves topline milestone of Rs.1022 Cr registering 17 % growth

  Date：May. 25, 2020 Category：Companies

  NACL

  Highlights of the company performance for FY 2019-20 - Revenue from operations for the quarter and year ended 31st March, 2020 achieved is Rs. 276.63 Cr and ...

• US EPA proposes action to protect soybeans from major agricultural pest

  Date：May. 25, 2020 Category：Regulations

  EPA is opening a 15-day comment period on a proposal to register Cry14Ab-1, a new plant-incorporated protectant (PIP) product that acts against the soybean cyst...

  Tags:Soybean

• New label additions to BioSafe Systems’ biological insecticide in the US

  Date：May. 25, 2020 Category：Products

  BioSafe Systems, LLC.

  BioSafe Systems announces EPA-registered label addition for BioCeres WP for control of white flies, aphids, thrips and plant bugs on hemp, coffee, mushroom, sug...

• Six agtech startups selected for Danforth Center/Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator

  Date：May. 25, 2020 Category：Companies

  The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center and the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2) on Thursday unveiled the incubator’s newest agtech cohort, which includ...

• Bayer’s BUTEO® start insecticide seed treatment approved in Canada

  Date：May. 25, 2020 Category：Products

  Bayer CropScience AG

  The Crop Science Division of Bayer recently announced the registration of BUTEO® start, an insecticide seed treatment for canola that provides superior protect...

• Bt eggplant to boost marketable yield by 192%, reduce insecticide use by 48% in Philippines

  Date：May. 25, 2020 Category：Markets

  In the Philippines, eggplant farming is a major source of income for thousands of farmers in the eggplant-producing regions in Luzon and Central Visayas. Eggpla...

• Bayer says it makes progress in settlement talks over weedkiller

  Date：May. 25, 2020 Category：Companies

  Bayer CropScience AG

  Bayer said on Monday it had made progress seeking a settlement over claims its glyphosate-based Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, after Bloomberg reported the c...

• Evonik: Sophorolipid as Novel Adjuvant Technology

  Date：May. 25, 2020 Category：Products

  BREAK-THRU®SF 420 is a novel sophorolipid-based surfactant manufactured by natural fermentation of rapeseed oil and sugar - a vegetable, non-genetically modifi...

• FMC Corporation Announces New Arc™ Farm Intelligence Platform

  Date：May. 22, 2020 Category：Products

  FMC Corporation

  FMC Corporation (NYSE: FMC) recently announced the launch of Arc™ farm intelligence, an exclusive precision agriculture platform that enables growers and advis...

• Centre wants to ban a host of pesticides: Here’s why

  Date：May. 22, 2020 Category：Markets

  The Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare in a draft May 14, 2020 notification proposed to ban monocrotophos, methomyl and carbofuran, three Class...

• Cyclone affects Indian fertilizer producers in Paradip

  Date：May. 22, 2020 Category：Markets

  IFFCO has halted DAP and NPK production at its Paradip facility — which has a nameplate capacity of 1.5mn t/yr of DAP and 420,000 t/yr of NPK — since yesterda...

• Agro chemical industry body opposes draft proposal to ban 27 pesticides

  Date：May. 22, 2020 Category：Markets

  CropLife India, an industry body for agro chemical firms, on Thursday opposed a draft proposal to ban 27 pesticides that have a 15 per cent market share, saying...

• India on alert as locusts from Pak threaten farms

  Date：May. 22, 2020 Category：Markets

  India is on the alert for crop-munching desert locusts, which according to a UN warning, pose a “severe” risk to the country’s agriculture this year, as a to...

• Nacl Industries Consolidated March 2020 Net Sales at Rs 276.63 crore, up 55.54% Y-o-Y

  Date：May. 22, 2020 Category：Companies

  Reported Consolidated quarterly numbers for Nacl Industries are: Net Sales at Rs 276.63 crore in March 2020 up 55.54% from Rs. 177.85 crore in March 2019. ...

• US EPA reopens public comment period on proposed interim decisions for neonicotinoids

  Date：May. 22, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is reopening the public comment period for 30 days on the proposed interim decisions for the neonicotinoids aceta...

• Meristem Crop Solutions and Van Trump Ag Solutions announce agreement - Van Trump seeks to bring innovation and low-cost solutions to American farmers

  Date：May. 22, 2020 Category：Companies

  Meristem Crop Performance Group, LLC

  Meristem Crop Performance Group, LLC and Van Trump Ag Solutions, LLC Thursday announced a new strategic supply agreement to serve American farmers.

• Cargill and Eagle Genomics agree to multi-year platform engagement to accelerate microbiome discovery

  Date：May. 22, 2020 Category：Companies

  Cargill, Incorporated

  Life sciences and microbiome knowledge discovery company Eagle Genomics today announced that Cargill has signed a multi-year platform agreement to enable the di...

• Eden Research receives more country authorisations for key products

  Date：May. 22, 2020 Category：Products

  Eden Research plc

  Eden Research PLC (LON:EDEN), the sustainable biopesticides specialist, has reported further approvals for its Cedroz bionematicide distributed by partner Eastm...

• Unipac's Commercial Director talks about crop protection product packaging market

  Date：May. 22, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Unipac

  Unipac is part of the Jacto Group, which has a history of over 70 years, a presence on five continents, and is composed of six companies operating in the sector...

• Nine internationally recognized experts join Bayer's Sustainability Council

  Date：May. 22, 2020 Category：Companies

  Bayer CropScience AG

  An independent Sustainability Council will advise the Board of Management of Bayer AG and other functions within the company in all sustainability matters. The ...

• HELM Agro US and ISK Biosciences Announce Collaboration in the Commercial Development of Three New Herbicides

  Date：May. 22, 2020 Category：Companies

  HELM AGRO US, Inc.

  HELM Agro US, Inc., a global manufacturer of high-quality crop protection and fertilizer products and Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd. (ISK), have entered into a lo...

• Envita: N-fixing bacteria for corn improves productivity and sustainability of agriculture

  Date：May. 22, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Envita, containing Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus, fixes N in corn and other crops beyond legumes. It is the only N-fixing bacteria to work from within the pl...

• PMFAI appealed the Draft Notification & Banning of Insecticides Order 2020 in abeyance and start the Scientific Review Process

  Date：May. 22, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Pradip Dave

  Considering the crisis situation the nation is going through, PMFAI appealed to Hon’ble Prime Minister and Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, to keep t...

• Biobest launches Crop-Scanner app for efficient biological crop protection

  Date：May. 22, 2020 Category：Products

  Biobest Belgium N.V.

  The new app Crop-Scanner from Biobest unlocks fast and accurate scouting for growers to deliver improvements in overall IPM performance. Enabling growers and th...