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• China will remain an attractive investment destination for global investors

  Date：Sep. 30, 2020 Category：Markets

  Foreign companies that have long been a thriving part of China's economy and strong supporters of global supply chains are finding fresh momentum from the impro...

• Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs: Paraquat sales banned in China

  Date：Sep. 30, 2020 Category：Regulations

  On 25th September, 2020, the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued a notice on the strengthened regulations related to paraquat-related busin...

• Increasing Direct-to-Farmer reach in India : Dhanuka partners with Agritech Startup Gramophone

  Date：Sep. 30, 2020 Category：Companies

  Dhanuka Agritech Ltd.

  Supporting the Future of AgriTech, one of India's leading agro-chemical Company, Dhanuka Agritech Ltd. has partnered with Gramophone, to provide crop solutions ...

• HDFC securities institutional research desk: Indian chemical conference report

  Date：Sep. 30, 2020 Category：Markets

  In the CXO-Chemical Conference-2020, senior management of seven listed chemical and agrochemical companies and an industry expert attended the conference.

• China’s Hubei Province publishes post-pandemic revitalization plan, invests Yuan141.3 billion in solving “chemical-surrounding-river" issue

  Date：Sep. 30, 2020 Category：Regulations

  On 23rd September, the China’s Hubei Provincial Government Information Office held a press conference revealing its planned investment of Yuan141.3 billion ove...

• India’s controversial farm bills become law despite protests

  Date：Sep. 30, 2020 Category：Markets

  India’s president on last Sunday approved three controversial agricultural bills amid nationwide protests by farmers who say the new laws will stunt their barg...

• Organic fertilizer as fuel and organic farming as tool, earth to be clean and green

  Date：Sep. 30, 2020 Category：Markets

  Due to the mushrooming popularity of organic farming, on account of the increasing consumer demand for organic food and rising focus of governments and people o...

• Jiangsu Fuding Chemical’s 300-ton Metamifop technical project nearing completion

  Date：Sep. 30, 2020 Category：Companies

  Recently AgroPages learned from Chinese agrochemical company Jiangsu Fuding Chemical CO., Ltd., that the environmental impact assessment of its annual 300-ton m...

• Registrations of microbial pesticides in US from 2015 to 2018

  Date：Sep. 30, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Biopesticide has been highly recognized due to its small side effect, high safety and environment-friendly property, having become a new trend of pesticide deve...

• Pilarquim: Looking forward for a new generation of CP products - safety and much more efficient

  Date：Sep. 30, 2020 Category：Companies

  Pilarquim (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.

  The new generations of herbicides and insecticides that Pilarquim began developing have achieved great results, which are mainly formulations of CS (Microcapsul...

• Wheat blast has made the intercontinental jump to Africa

  Date：Sep. 30, 2020 Category：Markets

  Wheat blast, a fast-acting and devastating fungal disease, has been reported for the first time on the African continent.

• Stepan Completes Acquisition of Surfactant Business and Sulfate Production Equipment in Mexico from Clariant

  Date：Sep. 30, 2020 Category：Companies

  Stepan Company

  Stepan Company (NYSE: SCL) today reported that, through subsidiaries in Mexico, it has closed on an agreement with Clariant (Mexico) S.A. de C.V. to acquire Cla...

• CEV and Ceradis Sign Biofungicide R&D Agreement

  Date：Sep. 30, 2020 Category：Companies

  Ceradis B.V.

  CEV SA. and Ceradis Crop Protection B.V. announced they have entered into an R&D agreement to develop new, innovative crop protection products based on CEV’s b...

• Limin Group: net profit +53.5% YoY to USD43.6 million in H1 2020

  Date：Sep. 29, 2020 Category：Companies

  In H1 2020, Limin Group Co., Ltd. (Limin Group) made revenue of USD379.5 million, up by 144.2% year on year, and net profit of USD43.6 million, up by 53.5% year...

• Innovative use of machine learning to forecast crop disease risk

  Date：Sep. 29, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Crop diseases can generate destructive outbreaks that have the potential to threaten global food security, which is why it is fundamental to have reliable data ...

• Insect Armageddon: Low doses of the insecticide, Imidacloprid, cause blindness in insects

  Date：Sep. 29, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  New research has identified a mechanism by which low levels of insecticides such as, the neonicotinoid Imidacloprid, could harm the nervous, metabolic and immun...

• Farm Bills 2020 latest update: President gives assent to three Bills amid intensifying protest; Farmers call it ‘Dark Day’ for India

  Date：Sep. 29, 2020 Category：Markets

  Amid the continuous vehement protest by the farmers and opposition parties against the controversial bill,President Ram Nath Kovind on Sunday gave his assent fo...

• Pesticides to kill locusts harm ecosystems in India, signature fauna

  Date：Sep. 29, 2020 Category：Markets

  “The desert locust situation continues to improve in southwest Asia,” the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in its latest update. Locusts destroyed...

• IFFCO not to increase rate of DAP, NPK fertilisers in rabi season

  Date：Sep. 29, 2020 Category：Companies

  Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO)

  Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) has no plan to increase the maximum retail price of DAP (diammonium phosphate) and NPK fertilisers during ...

• Bayer’s XtendFlex soybeans gain final key regulatory approval in EU

  Date：Sep. 29, 2020 Category：Products

  Bayer CropScience AG

  Bayer announced on Monday that the European Commission has authorized XtendFlex soybean technology for food, feed, import and processing in the European Union. ...

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• Syngenta statement on US EPA's Interim Registration Review Decision and upcoming Endangered Species Assessment on atrazine

  Date：Sep. 29, 2020 Category：Regulations

  Syngenta United States

  Syngenta aims to correct the record regarding a number of false statements that have been made with regard to the EPA Interim Registration Review Decision and u...

• UPL chooses Qlik to drive business strategy and enable self-service analytics

  Date：Sep. 29, 2020 Category：Companies

  Qlik has announced that UPL Ltd. is leveraging Qlik’s data analytics platform to empower and inform business users across its organization. The Indian multinat...

• Wynca’s subsidiary plans new build of glufosinate production facilities

  Date：Sep. 28, 2020 Category：Companies

  Zhejiang Xinan Chemical Industrial Group Co., Ltd

  On August 8 and 14, Wynca Science & Technology (Ningxia) publicized their environmental impact assessment report for public opinion in China, covering an annual...

• Fengshan Group to build multiple pesticide intermediates production base to expand its industrial chain advantage

  Date：Sep. 28, 2020 Category：Companies

  Jiangsu Fengshan Group Co., Ltd.

  On September 23, Fengshan Group announced a plan to acquire land in China's Sichuan Guang'an Economic and Technological Development Zone Xinqiao Park for constr...

• Inner Mongolia Xingfa Science and Technology achieving record-high glyphosate production in a single month

  Date：Sep. 28, 2020 Category：Companies

  Hubei Xingfa Chemicals Group Co Ltd

  On August, 4,239 tons of glyphosate technical was held in storage in the Inner Mongolia Xingfa Science and Technology Ltd warehouse, reflecting a record-high le...

• CPM MPs assess crop loss due to whitefly in India

  Date：Sep. 28, 2020 Category：Markets

  A delegation of CPM MPs Elamaram Kareem, KK Raghesh, Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya and Dr Vijoo Krishnan are on a visit to villages in Jind, Hisar and Rohtak to ta...

• Axis Bank partners with Bayer’s Better Life Farming Initiative in India to provide better & holistic financial solutions to farmers

  Date：Sep. 28, 2020 Category：Markets

  Axis Bank, India’s third largest private sector bank has partnered with Bayer’s Better Life Farming initiative in India to provide improved and holistic finan...

• The 7 major challenges in understanding humic acids

  Date：Sep. 28, 2020 Category：Science&Research

  Tradecorp Nutri-Performance

  The Humic Acid market remains one of the most challenging, confusing, and least understood aspects of the global agricultural input market. Tradecorp analysed t...

• Hailir’s key product prothioconazole, with 2,000 tons capacity, officially entered trial production stage

  Date：Sep. 28, 2020 Category：Companies

  Hailir Pesticides and Chemicals Group Co., Ltd.

  Hailir announced on September 28, 2020 that the trial production plan of 2,000 tons prothioconazole fungicide technical, invested and constructed by its wholly-...

• Nufarm announces $456 million net loss

  Date：Sep. 28, 2020 Category：Companies

  Nufarm Australia Ltd

  ASX-listed agricultural chemical business Nufarm has announced a full-year net loss of $456 million, down from a $38.3 million profit a year ago. The results in...