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• Sigma Agro: Seizes Opportunity, Steadily Expands Argentine Market

  Date：Jul. 3, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Jeronimo Araujo, Director of Sigma Agro, told AgroPages in an interview that the company has been growing fast in these two years. They have achieved 50% sales ...

• Tackling agrarian distress from the root: can Tech give Indian agriculture a facelift?

  Date：Jul. 3, 2020 Category：Markets

  Over the last decade, several startups and a handful of established companies are trying to address these challenges to improve the livelihoods of farmers. Pigg...

• Portugal had greatest reduction in agrochemicals in the European Union

  Date：Jul. 3, 2020 Category：Markets

  Portugal a member state of the European Union (EU) has recorded the greatest reduction in sales and use of agrochemicals, between 2011 and 2018, registering a d...

• India fertilizer sales up by 79pc in June

  Date：Jul. 3, 2020 Category：Markets

  Fertilizer sales hit 6.86mn t last month, up by 79pc on the year and the highest monthly figure since December, as buying ramped up for the June-September monso...

• India deploys helicopters, 12 drones to spray insecticides and monitor swarms after nine states report sightings of locusts

  Date：Jul. 3, 2020 Category：Markets

  India on Tuesday deployed a helicopter and a dozen drones spraying insecticide to stop desert locusts that have spread to nine heartland states of the world’s ...

• Big News: 16 States Issues Circular to Implement Centre's Agriculture Reforms

  Date：Jul. 3, 2020 Category：Markets

  According to the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Secretary, Sanjay Agarwal, almost 16 States have issued circulars to implement the Centre's t...

• PAU advises farmers to be prepared for fall armyworm attack

  Date：Jul. 3, 2020 Category：Markets

  The scientists at the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, have issued advisory for managing fall armyworm in maize. Tracing the history of the insec...

• US EPA Proposes Registration of Pesticide Containing New Microbial Active Ingredient

  Date：Jul. 3, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is opening a 15-day comment period on a proposal to register a pesticide product, Vintec, that contains the new m...

• Valent U.S.A. Announces Launch of NEW Sensta Insecticide for Southeast Vegetable & Citrus Growers

  Date：Jul. 3, 2020 Category：Products

  Valent U.S.A. LLC

  Vegetable and citrus growers now have a new insecticide option to protect their produce from damaging pests. Senstar™ Insecticide from Valent U.S.A. equips gro...

• Jensen Seeds expand in France and acquires Astera Seed

  Date：Jul. 3, 2020 Category：Companies

  Jensen Seeds A/S

  Jensen Seeds signed an agreement to acquire French seed company Astera Seed, which, like Jensen Seeds, specializes in the production of vegetable seeds. The acq...

• EU should end imports made with banned pesticides: farm chief

  Date：Jul. 3, 2020 Category：Regulations

  The European Union should stop importing agricultural goods made using pesticides that are banned within the bloc, the EU’s top farming official said on Thursd...

• GRDC Grains Research and Development: Fungicide resistance a growing issue in barley disease

  Date：Jul. 3, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Barley growers are advised to monitor their crops for early signs of fungicide resistance, with research uncovering new developments in the resistance to fungic...

• Award-winning Mavruz uses biological control

  Date：Jul. 3, 2020 Category：Products

  Biobest Belgium N.V.

  In recognition of the project’s unique achievement, Mavruz was awarded the Sustainable Business Award 2019 for Turkey in the waste management category.

• Laeveld Agrochem: Helping South African farmers yields the best farm produce through scientific methods and precision services

  Date：Jul. 3, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  Laeveld Agrochem

  Recently, AgroPages exclusively interviewed Corné Liebenberg, who is the Marketing Director of South Africa’s leading distributor, Laeveld Agrochem (LAC), whi...

• BASF Digital Farming to launch AI-based digital crop optimization platform with Zen-noh in Japan

  Date：Jul. 3, 2020 Category：Companies

  BASF Agricultural Solutions

  BASF Digital Farming GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF, has agreed with Zen-noh to start a new collaboration for xarvio® FIELD MANAGER, an AI-based digit...

• Bee Vectoring Technologies Granted Patent by European Patent Office For Biological Fungicide CR-7

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Products

  Bee Vectoring Technology (BVT)

  Bee Vectoring Technologies International Inc. (TSXV: BEE) (OTCQB: BEVVF) (CVE:BEE) today announced that the European Patent Office (EPO) has granted a patent fo...

• Atanor Argentina launches herbicide Odisei, based on Methyl Sulfometuron, Metsulfuron

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Products

  Atanor S.C.A. (Albaugh Argentina)

  Last month, Atanor Argentina officially launched the herbicide, Odisei, which is recommended for the control of broadleaf weeds and annual grasses during the ch...

• India Pesticide firms seek sops to cut China import

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Markets

  According to the manufacturers, they need at least two years to become self-sufficient provided the government supports them with a special package.

• Time to go for innovative technology to improve Indian farming

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  There is an urgent need to up the game in Indian agriculture which can both feed its own people and export to other countries.

• Agriculture is the key to India’s prosperity

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Markets

  A government initiative called e-NAM (e- National Agricultural Market) is an online trading portal that unites farmers all over the country by means of existing...

• Syngenta launches rodenticide Klerat Block XT in Spain

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Products

  Syngenta Spain

  Syngenta Spain organized a virtual seminar to present, to its distributors, customers and professionals in the pest control sector, its new rodenticide, Klerat ...

• IAF develops locust control system for Mi-17 choppers

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Markets

  The Indian Air Force has indigenously designed and developed an pesticide spraying tool for Mi-17 choppers -- the Airborne Locust Control System (ALCS) -- to sa...

• RCF has made Available Over 2 lakh MT of Imported Fertilizers for the Kharif Season

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Companies

  RCF plants have remained operational & sufficient quantity of production of its fertilizers was done. Besides its manufactured fertilizers, RCF has also made av...

• Bayer forges ahead with new crops resistant to 5 herbicides

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Companies

  Despite lawsuits and regulations, the agrichemical company is developing new genetically engineered corn designed to work with five herbicides, including glypho...

• Swarming Locusts (Grasshoppers) Worries Argentina and Brazil

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Markets

  Argentina is now dealing with swarms of grasshoppers in the northeastern provinces of the country.Farmers in southern Brazil are concerned about potential damag...

• Overview of Aerial Application of Pesticide Formulation & Adjuvant Technologies Launched in China

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  In 2019, China's aerial pesticide application sector ushered in a boom period. As of December 2019, the number of China's aerial application UAV reached 50,000 ...

• India CIBRC 418th meeting: 9 TC and 7 Formulation registrations got approved

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Markets

  At the meeting, 9 registrations of pesticide technical and 7 formulation products, including 5 herbicides, 3 insecticides/acaricides, 4 fungicides and 4 bio-pro...

• Nufarm limits manufacturing to weather pandemic blow

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Companies

  Nufarm Australia Ltd

  Australia’s Nufarm Ltd said on Tuesday it would cease making insecticides and fungicides at its local site and reduce herbicide manufacturing in Austria, less ...

• An overview of pesticides registered in China for application on cotton

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Markets

  As of 9th June, 2020, a total of 2,990 pesticide products were registered for use on cotton that will still stay within the valid period, including 2,117 (70.8%...

• AI to speed up seed germination testing process

  Date：Jul. 2, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Researchers have developed a new tool to carry out one of agriculture’s more challenging tasks - seed germination testing. SeedGerm – based on machine learnin...