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• Scientists successfully innoculate, grow crops in salt-damaged soil

  Date：Aug. 23, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  A group of researchers may have found a way to reverse falling crop yields caused by increasingly salty farmlands throughout the world.

• CIMMYT entomologist strengthens native resistance in maize against fall armyworm

  Date：Aug. 23, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Anani Bruce, maize entomologist at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) since 2013, is intensively engaged in an expert partnership sup...

• KWS to invest 9.5 million euros to strengthen corn in Argentina

  Date：Aug. 23, 2019 Category：Companies

  With the presence of foreign officials, legislators and executives, the new corn seed processing plant of the German company KWS in Manuel Ocampo was inaugurate...

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• AgResearch considering bring GM trial to New Zealand

  Date：Aug. 23, 2019 Category：Companies

  AgResearch says it is working on whether its genetically modified ryegrass could move to NZ based field and animal nutrition trials from 2021. This comes as the...

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• Plant protection: Researchers develop new modular vaccination kit

  Date：Aug. 22, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Simple, fast and flexible: It could become significantly easier to vaccinate plants against viruses in future. Scientists at Martin Luther University Halle-Witt...

• How digital revolution in farming systems can boost productivity

  Date：Aug. 22, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  With increasing population, urbanisation and contagious depletion of natural resources, there has to be a paradigm shift in farmer’s perception from production...

• Australia University applied for trial of GM microalgae

  Date：Aug. 22, 2019 Category：Markets

  The Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) of Australia has received a licence application (DIR 169) from The University of Queensland to conduct a tria...

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• BASF announces the return of the herbicide Aura to Brazilian market

  Date：Aug. 22, 2019 Category：Products

  Following numerous requests from the rice production sector, BASF announced, during the XI Brazilian Congress of Irrigated Rice (CBAI) in Balneário Camboriú, ...

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• Sumitomo Chemical to Strengthen Business Operations of its Health & Crop Sciences Sector in the Latin American Region

  Date：Aug. 22, 2019 Category：Companies

  Sumitomo Chemical Company is strengthening its business operations relating to crop protection products and the feed additive methionine in the Latin American r...

• Chile opens insect production center for biological pest control

  Date：Aug. 22, 2019 Category：Markets

  The Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG) of Chile has opened the Insectarium of Massive Production of Beneficial Insects in the Arica and Parinacota region....

• Feeding the 11 billion: Wageningen, the small Dutch town ending our food crisis

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

  Describing itself as the primary knowledge-intensive agrifood ecosystem in the Netherlands, Food Valley, as it's known, promises food-related solutions "in the ...

• What is 14-hydroxylated Brassinosteroid (Natural Brassinolide)

  Date：Aug. 22, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Brassinolide and its analogs, as the endogenous plant hormone, are different from the other five plant hormones and have unique physiological activities to the ...

• Why India is vulnerable to attacks by alien species

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

  Theirs is possibly the most unnoticeable of all invasions. When pests, weeds, viruses and bacteria invade, they can wipe out food crops, alter the ecology, depl...

• US EPA sued for allowing use of sulfoxaflor

  Date：Aug. 22, 2019 Category：Markets

  An environmental group is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its decision to expand use of a pesticide the agency considers toxic to bees.

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• India: Certification of seeds to be made mandatory to step up farm output

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

  More than half of all seeds sold in India are not certified by any proper testing agency, and are often of poor quality.

• Tasmania’s GM ban stands as South Australia move largely welcomed

  Date：Aug. 22, 2019 Category：Regulations

  Yesterday's announcement by the South Australian Government looks likely to spell the end to the state’s moratorium on genetically modified (GM) crops, with th...

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• Crop gene editing needs proactive communication plan, scientist warns

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

  Effective science and communication collaborations are critical to ensure gene editing technology does not suffer from the “perception problem” now facing gen...

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• Haryana Agricultural University develops high protein, sweeter sorghum variety

  Date：Aug. 22, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCSHAU), Hisar, has developed an improved variety of sorghum HC713 for cultivation in the southern part ...

• India's monsoon rains above average for fourth straight week: Weather Office

  Date：Aug. 22, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Monsoon rains in India in the week through Wednesday were above average for a fourth straight week, the weather office said, with floods hitting many districts ...

• Goa: 80% paddy crop feared damaged due to heavy rain

  Date：Aug. 22, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  According to the weather department, the average monsoon rainfall for the state is 96 inches spread over three months. This time, it received 120 inches in just...

• John Deere Opens New Intelligent Solutions Group Facility in Urbandale, Iowa

  Date：Aug. 22, 2019 Category：Companies

  John Deere recently opened its new Intelligent Solutions Group (ISG) facility in central Iowa. The 134,000 square-foot facility in Urbandale is devoted to probl...

• Perdaman chooses SynCOR™ solution for world’s largest ammonia plant

  Date：Aug. 22, 2019 Category：Companies

  Perdaman Chemicals and Fertilisers Pty Ltd

  Perdaman Chemicals and Fertilisers (Perdaman) has signed a licensing and engineering contract for Haldor Topsoe’s SynCOR Ammonia™ solution for its AUS$4 billi...

• Researchers developing natural pesticide alternative to target pests without harming honeybees

  Date：Aug. 22, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  A natural, sustainable alternative to pesticides that targets specific pests, without harming beneficial pollinators such as honeybees, is being developed with ...

• Indian Agriculture Department cracks down on dealers selling spurious farm inputs

  Date：Aug. 21, 2019 Category：Regulations

  To provide genuine pesticides and quality agriculture inputs to farmers in the state, the Agriculture Department has launched a drive to undertake vigorous insp...

• RAGT Semences is once again the target of plot destruction

  Date：Aug. 21, 2019 Category：Companies

  For the third year in a row, RAGT Seeds has been attacked by volunteer mowers, destroying two sunflower crops in the Hérault. The seed company denounces this a...

• Breakthrough in disease resistance for brassica crops

  Date：Aug. 21, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  A global team led by Punjab Agricultural University, India, with researchers from The University of Western Australia, have made a significant breakthrough in d...

• "How vulnerable are we": Mapping climate change in India

  Date：Aug. 21, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Climate change is here. Climate change is real. There have been enough extreme weather events of late to demonstrate that. Such events, in fact, arguably are on...

• How phenomics can help accelerate the discovery of drought and heat tolerant traits in Australian canola

  Date：Aug. 21, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  Canola (Oilseed Brassica napus) is ranked second amongst the major oilseeds behind soy, which dominates global production.

• 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...

• Advanced BioNutrition and GreenLight Biosciences Announce Collaboration

  Date：Aug. 21, 2019 Category：Companies

  Advanced BioNutrition Corp（ABN）

  Advanced BioNutrition (ABN) and GreenLight Biosciences (GreenLight) announce a collaboration to develop high stability RNA products for specific agriculture app...