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• Lavie Bio announces advancement in its product development pipeline for wheat bio-stimulants

  Date：Nov. 20, 2019 Category：Products

  Lavie Bio

  Lavie Bio (Lavie), a subsidiary of Evogene (NASDAQ: EVGN, TASE: EVGN), aiming to improve food quality, sustainability and agriculture productivity through the i...

• Limin Chemical: net profit to increase by 90.7% YoY to USD40.4 million in Q1-3 2019

  Date：Nov. 20, 2019 Category：Companies

  Limin Chemical Co., Ltd.

  By Think Real - Limin Chemical Co., Ltd. (Limin Chemical) announced that it achieved revenue of USD284.5 million, an increase of 86.7% year on year, and net pro...

• A thousand melon genomes: understanding the past to improve the future

  Date：Nov. 20, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  In 2012, the Melonomics project, a public-private consortium led by researchers from the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) published the first...

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• Better Agriculture Data and Innovative Tools will Help Deal with Climate Change: Bill Gates

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

  Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates said that better statistical information & innovative tools will help minimize the damage of climate change on the agriculture ...

• Spodoptera frugiperdas that strike China have high resistance to traditional pesticides

  Date：Nov. 20, 2019 Category：Science&Research

  The research shows that it is not suitable to use such traditional pesticides as organophosphorus pesticide, organochlorine pesticide and pyrethroid to control ...

• CARBO, INNOVAR AG to develop encapsulated infused fertilizer

  Date：Nov. 20, 2019 Category：Companies

  CARBO

  CARBO Ceramics Inc. (NYSE: CRR) has announced the signing of an agriculture technology products production agreement with INNOVAR AG, LLC.

• Newly Formed Plant Response™ Biotech to Offer Biological Products to Improve Plant Performance

  Date：Nov. 20, 2019 Category：Companies

  PlantResponse Biotech S.L.

  Plant Response Biotech and Koch Biological Solutions, LLC. have combined operations to form Plant Response™ Biotech, Inc. The new venture will leverage both co...

• How AI and data can help India’s agriculture and healthcare, discuss a panel at the Bengaluru Tech Summit

  Date：Nov. 20, 2019 Category：Markets

  Imagine an artificial intelligence algorithm predicting how long it will take for a seedling to blossom into a ripe tomato – ready for picking and packing for ...

• Nanotechnology breathing new life into existing crop protection products

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

  Vive Crop Protection

  A University of Toronto graduate school project is now extending the life of widely used crop protection products. Vive Crop Protection’s trademarked Allospers...

• Bill Gates calls for doubled investment in seed development

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

  To support small farmers, it is important to double investment in technology innovations to develop new seeds which are resistant to heat, drought, humidity and...

• Changing nematicides market remains strong, raises positioning questions to suppliers, says Kline

  Date：Nov. 20, 2019 Category：Markets

  Kline & Company, Inc.

  The global nematicides market is currently driven by several important factors, including an increase in commodity demand with declining acreage, growth of high...

  Tags:Nematicides

• Incotec strengthens European sales team

  Date：Nov. 20, 2019 Category：Companies

  Seed enhancement company Incotec strengthens its European commercial sales team with the appointment of Valerio Maldonado as account manager for vegetables in E...

• Dhanuka Agritech Expects Margins To Recover In Second Half Of FY20 As Demand Rises

  Date：Nov. 20, 2019 Category：Companies

  Dhanuka Agritech Ltd.

  Dhanuka Agritech Ltd. expects its margins to recover in the second half of the ongoing financial year after an erratic monsoon affected the pesticide maker’s p...

• Growing the Future Together: breeders and farmers underline the importance of plant breeding innovation for sustainable agriculture

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

  Plant breeding innovation is essential to contribute to a sustainable agriculture production that fosters food security and healthy nutrition.

• Pakistan Agriculture Research Council approves 12 new hybrid maize varieties for cultivation

  Date：Nov. 20, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The Pakistan Agriculture Research Council (PARC) has approved 12 new hybrid maize varieties for cultivation across the country.

  Tags:Maize

• Australia approved world-first use of a product based on BASF’s herbicide Luximax

  Date：Nov. 20, 2019 Category：Products

  Australian farmers will be the first in the world to experience Luximax® (cinmethylin), the breakthrough pre-emergent herbicide by BASF, which has received reg...

  Tags:Cinmethylin

• Australia APVMA announces chemical review of neonicotinoids

  Date：Nov. 20, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) has announced a chemical review of a group of systemic insecticides known as the neonicotin...

• Indian Agriculture Sector to go Dutch in Future?

  Date：Nov. 19, 2019 Category：Markets

  Indian Agriculture sector may adapt Dutch technology for farming in future because of its promising output. A consortium of Dutch companies is planning to launc...

• BSM Chemical goes public in China, pendimethalin technical and formulation capacity expected to increase

  Date：Nov. 19, 2019 Category：Companies

  BSM Chemical is offering no more than 30.30 million shares intended to raise funds of Yuan392.9776 million, which will be spent on pendimethalin and methoxyfeno...

• Taking a 'specialized, refined, featured and novel' approach to become a hidden champion – Shandong Hailir Chemical

  Date：Nov. 19, 2019 Category：Companies

  Hailir Pesticides and Chemicals Group Co., Ltd.

  On October 12, 2019, Chinses agrochemical company Shandong Hailir Chemical was awarded the honorary title of “specialized, refined, featured and novel enterpri...

• Suli's fluazinam technical granted registration in Brazil

  Date：Nov. 19, 2019 Category：Products

  A few days ago, the bactericide fluazinam technical product (980g / kg, FLUAZINAM TÉCNICO BAILLY) of Jiangyin Suli Chemical Co., Ltd was granted registration i...

• Staphyt is looking for regulatory business development manager Brazil

  Date：Nov. 19, 2019 Category：Companies

  STAPHYT

  Staphyt is a leading CRO and Regulatory Consultancy primarily focusing on the agrochemical sector. We offer support to our clients internationally and are seek...

• Old World Specialty Products announces a joint venture with Meristem Crop Performance

  Date：Nov. 19, 2019 Category：Companies

  Old World Specialty Products, LLC (OWSP), a subsidiary of Old World Industries, LLC (Old World), has announced a joint venture with Meristem Crop Performance, L...

• Taranis, Stratus Imaging team up in Australia

  Date：Nov. 19, 2019 Category：Companies

  Taranis

  Precision agriculture intelligence platform Taranis has entered into a partnership with Stratus Imaging to bring specialised imagery services to farmers in Aust...

• Australia to approve insecticide etofenprox

  Date：Nov. 19, 2019 Category：Products

  The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) has proposed to approve a new insecticidal active ingredient, etofenprox. Etofenprox is an ...

  Tags:Etofenprox

• Untimely rains hit India's summer crops, delay rural economy recovery

  Date：Nov. 19, 2019 Category：Markets

  Heavy rains in October and November have brought more misery to India's farmers, after summer-sown crops such as soybean, cotton, rice and vegetables suffered r...

• Italpollina announces the launch of biostimulant.com

  Date：Nov. 19, 2019 Category：Companies

  Italpollina S.p.A.

  Italpollina, a world leader in the production of organic fertilizers, natural biostimulants and beneficial microbials for use in agriculture is pleased to annou...

• Private firm, UG scientists develop new organic fertilizer, bringing great yield increase

  Date：Nov. 19, 2019 Category：Products

  Agricultural scientists at the University of Ghana and a private company, HJA Africa, have developed a new organic fertiliser that can help farmers to increase ...

• India: Seed firms oppose price control under proposed Seed Bill

  Date：Nov. 19, 2019 Category：Markets

  Citing the case of cotton, in which the Centre has been fixing the maximum retail price of the seeds of Bt Cotton since 2016, the industry body in a memorandum ...

• Australia's amended Gene Technology Regulations to provide clarity to the seed industry

  Date：Nov. 19, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The Australian Seed Federation (ASF) welcomes the passage of the amended Gene Technology Regulations through the Senate.