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• Grupo Vittia acquires JB Biotecnologia, expands shares in biological control market

  Date：Feb. 26, 2021 Category：Companies

  Grupo Vittia

  Grupo Vittia, a Brazilian company with 50 years of experience in manufacturing special fertilizers, inoculants and biological pesticides, has just acquired JB B...

• Canola grazing an excellent option with Syngenta's Saltro Duo

  Date：Feb. 26, 2021 Category：Products

  Entering just its second season SALTRO DUO® is compatible with relatively early grazing, helping growers bridge the gap in winter pasture growth, while protect...

  Tags:Seed treatment

• Nuseed officially opens its newest Innovation Center in the Santa Fe city of Venado Tuerto, Argentina

  Date：Feb. 26, 2021 Category：Companies

  Nuseed

  The newest Nuseed Innovation Center in the Santa Fe city of Venado Tuerto, Argentina will be headquarters for the company’s logistics, operations, sales, admin...

  Tags:Investment & Expansion

• Bayer delivers robust performance - Crop Science registers higher sales thanks to growth in Latin America and Asia/Pacific

  Date：Feb. 26, 2021 Category：Companies

  Bayer CropScience AG

  In the agricultural business, Bayer increased sales by 1.3 percent to 18.840 billion euros. The businesses in the Latin America and Asia/Pacific regions contrib...

  Tags:Sales Performance

• Aegilops promotes Easy Flow technology in Brazilian seed treatment market

  Date：Feb. 26, 2021 Category：Products

  Differentiated finishing, greater fluidity and the substitution of graphite are some of the features of the Aegilops Easy Flow seed coating technology, which is...

• Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative researchers find key herbicide resistance gene

  Date：Feb. 26, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative (AHRI) researchers have identified a key gene in annual ryegrass responsible for the weed’s resistance to seven diff...

  Tags:ResistanceHerbicides

• University of Georgia researchers developed a new rapid test for watermelon disease

  Date：Feb. 26, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  University of Georgia researchers have now developed a faster way to detect the disease’s presence and determine the races, or groups of strains, of the pathog...

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• Data analytics company DTN acquires on-farm data startup Farm Market iD

  Date：Feb. 26, 2021 Category：Companies

  DTN

  DTN, a leading data, analytics and technology company, has acquired Farm Market iD. The acquisition enables DTN to build upon its unmatched agriculture expertis...

  Tags:AcquisitionPrecision Farming

• Lasiodiplodia pseudotheobromae now also is a problem for citrus in China

  Date：Feb. 26, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Considering the significant economic losses caused by postharvest diseases, the identification and prevention of citrus postharvest diseases is fundamental to t...

• What are Bt crops in India? Know its Advantages and Disadvantages

  Date：Feb. 26, 2021 Category：Markets

  Bt crops are wonderful, but controversial. These are genetically modified plants surrounded by a lot of debate and myths. One of the biggest fears of Bt crops, ...

• India could see winter crop cultivation shrink by 20% as groundwater depletes, study finds

  Date：Feb. 26, 2021 Category：Markets

  Decrease in groundwater levels and the inadequate irrigation capacity of canals could reduce India’s winter crop acreage by up to 20 per cent, a new study has ...

• Provivi fight against maize fall armyworm in Bangladesh and India

  Date：Feb. 26, 2021 Category：Companies

  Provivi, an emerging crop protection company using pheromones to protect large acreage row crops from major damaging insects, has announced a US$10mn investment...

• Gujarat closure notice to UPL's Jhagadia plant after fire leaves two dead

  Date：Feb. 26, 2021 Category：Companies

  According to sources, while the closure notice applies immediately, the actual shutdown process may happen gradually in a bid to avoid any other incident occurr...

• Foliar fertilizers contribute to higher productivity, quality of coffee crops

  Date：Feb. 26, 2021 Category：Products

  Microquimica （Tradecorp）

  In coffee cultivation, the use of foliar and biofertilizers aims to meet the nutritional requirements of coffee plants and offer greater "physiological efficien...

• Heranba Industries IPO: Business Verticals, major products, strengths, growth strategies and concerns II Details highlighted by Sharekhan

  Date：Feb. 26, 2021 Category：Companies

  Heranba Industries is one of the leading domestic producers of synthetic pyrethroids such as cypermethrin, alphacypermethrin, deltamethrin, permitherin, lambda ...

• Rainbow Agro is looking for regulatory affairs positions

  Date：Feb. 26, 2021 Category：Companies

  Shandong Weifang Rainbow Chemical Co., Ltd.

  Rainbow Agro is a leading international crop protection company founded in Jinan, China, in 2005 by a group of entrepreneurs, and is now one of the world’s top...

• ICL to distribute Syngenta’s Hicure biostimulant

  Date：Feb. 26, 2021 Category：Products

  ICL Specialty Fertilizers

  Hicure, a powerful, natural and flexible biostimulant, has been launched by Syngenta and will be distributed by ICL.

• ICL launches its 5th generation Osmocote controlled release fertilizer

  Date：Feb. 26, 2021 Category：Products

  ICL Specialty Fertilizers

  Taking ornamental plant nutrition and nutrient release to a new level, ICL has announced the launch of its 5th generation Osmocote controlled release fertilizer...

• BioAg World Congress 2021: the key global event for biologicals

  Date：Feb. 25, 2021 Category：Markets

  BioAg World Congress 2021 is an event by the industry for the industry in true sense. Not just the speaker and panelists are the leaders from industry rather th...

• MustGrow receives registration approval for powdery mildew bio-fungicide in Canada

  Date：Feb. 25, 2021 Category：Products

  MustGrow Biologics Corp.

  MustGrow Biologics Corp. announces receipt of regulatory approval for a powdery mildew bio-fungicide product for use on cannabis and hemp crops through Canada’...

• Lusosem launches biological fungicide for grape diseases in Portugal

  Date：Feb. 25, 2021 Category：Products

  Lusosem, s.a.

  The Portuguese company, Lusosem, presented a solution for controlling fungi that cause diseases in grapevines, including Esca, and soil fungi affecting horticul...

  Tags:Organic AgricultureOrganic Certification

• ISCA utilizes semiochemicals, pheromones via drones to control European grapevine moth in Argentina

  Date：Feb. 25, 2021 Category：Products

  ISCA Technologies, Inc.

  The Brazilian company, ISCA, entered the Argentine grapevine pest control market by launching a technology that makes it possible to aerially apply semi-chemica...

• China’s highest pesticide technical price rise/fall list in 2020 and price trend in 2021

  Date：Feb. 25, 2021 Category：Markets

  In 2020, according to the data analysis of Chinese domestic media, among the 108 pesticide technical products, prices of 16 items experienced a price rise to va...

• SAGEA Group lands in Greece: partnership with MAGMA-AGRO kicks off

  Date：Feb. 25, 2021 Category：Companies

  SAGEA Group

  SAGEA Group strengthens its international presence by signing an Exclusive Strategic Partnership with MAGMA-AGRO, a leading CRO in Greece.

  Tags:Collaboration

• FMC launches new fungicide Onsuva in Argentina

  Date：Feb. 25, 2021 Category：Products

  In Argentina, FMC announced the commercial pre-launch of its new fungicide, Onsuva, which prevents and controls diseases affecting soybean and peanut crops. The...

  Tags:FungicidesDifenoconazolefluindapyr

• Digital edition of “Annual Review 2020” magazine available for download now

  Date：Feb. 25, 2021 Category：Companies

  AgroPages’s business magazine - “Annual Review 2020” is available for download now.

• Genetic editing offers marijuana and hemp companies a way to improve plant strains

  Date：Feb. 25, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  The development of new genetic-editing technology offers cannabis companies a cost-effective way to make specific changes to marijuana and hemp plants – such a...

  Tags:Gene Editing

• Corteva Agriscience discontinues FeXapan herbicide in the United States and Canada

  Date：Feb. 25, 2021 Category：Products

  Corteva Agriscience is discontinuing sales of FeXapan herbicide in the United States and Canada. It is instead shifting resources to support the Enlist weed con...

  Tags:Herbicides

• Heranba Industries IPO is off to a decent start — Here’s why investment experts and retail investors are excited

  Date：Feb. 25, 2021 Category：Companies

  The ₹525 crore initial public offering (IPO) of agrochemical company Heranba Industries opened and has so far seen a decent subscription rate. In just two hour...

• India's ICAR warns against excessive fertilizer use

  Date：Feb. 25, 2021 Category：Markets

  ICAR, which is part of the country's agricultural and farming department, has put forward the recommendation to ultimately reduce the consumption of chemical fe...