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• UK-Pakistan to produce biopesticides in Pakistan

  Date：May. 23, 2019 Category：Companies

  UK-Pakistan Science and Innovation Global Network (UPSIGN) jointly hosted a two day workshop to develop bio-control strategies and produce biopesticides in Paki...

• Agrinos announces new distribution partnership with Agrofértil Camelo in Brazil

  Date：May. 23, 2019 Category：Companies

  Agrinos

  Agrinos announced a new commercial distribution partnership with Agrofértil Camelo, a leading provider of sustainable agriculture solutions to growers in the B...

• CropLife India reaches out to 100 plus pesticide dealers in Bharuch

  Date：May. 23, 2019 Category：Markets

  CropLife India, an association of 18 R & D driven member companies, yesterday, organized a one of its kind, a workshop for pesticide dealers at Bharuch. The wor...

• India to grow soybeans on more land this crop year

  Date：May. 23, 2019 Category：Markets

  India will grow soybeans on more land this crop year (2019) since higher prices for the oilseed push many farmers to switch from growing competing commodities l...

• Wilbur-Ellis Acquires Ag Services, Inc.

  Date：May. 23, 2019 Category：Companies

  Wilbur-Ellis

  Wilbur-Ellis Company LLC recently announced it acquired the assets of Ag Services, Inc.

• Monsanto kept "watch lists" on pesticide friends and foes in Europe, Bayer says, as Roundup legal battles continue

  Date：May. 23, 2019 Category：Companies

  Bayer's public relations headaches over its mammoth takeover of Monsanto intensified Tuesday, as a scandal about "watch lists" of pro- or anti-pesticides figure...

• PlantResponse Biotech announces trait license agreement with the U of Tubingen

  Date：May. 23, 2019 Category：Companies

  PlantResponse Biotech S.L.

  PlantResponse Biotech announced a licensing agreement has been signed with the University of Tübingen in Germany for trait technology that confers enhanced pla...

  Tags:Biotech

• US EPA makes it easier to find information on pesticide registration review actions

  Date：May. 23, 2019 Category：Regulations

  To increase transparency and ensure information is easily accessible, EPA has created a new web-based table of the most recent pesticide registration review act...

• Gafta Approved Fumigator Status for SGS in Canada and SGS in Romania

  Date：May. 23, 2019 Category：Companies

  SGS in Canada and SGS in Romania have gained "Approved Fumigator" status from Gafta, the Grain and Feed Trade Association, against its new Standard for Fumigati...

• Bühler opens its CUBIC innovation campus - The CUBIC is synonymous with innovation, collaboration, and training

  Date：May. 23, 2019 Category：Companies

  After a construction period of 20 months and an investment of about CHF 50 million, Bühler Group officially opened its CUBIC innovation campus with eight Appli...

• New study reports European food & agtech startups raise $1.6 billion in 2018

  Date：May. 23, 2019 Category：Markets

  AgFunder has just released the inaugural Europe AgriFood Tech Funding Report in collaboration with F&A Next.

• Paraguay updates regulation for land transportation of agrochemicals

  Date：May. 23, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The National Plant and Seed Quality and Health Service (SENAVE) updated regulations for the transport of active ingredients and formulated agrochemical products...

• Bayer released fungicide Cripton Xpro in Chile

  Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Products

  Bayer recently launched the fungicide Cripton Xpro in Chile. The new product stands out for its composition of three active ingredients - Bixafen, Prothioconazo...

  Tags:Bayer CropScienceBixafenProthioconazoleTrifloxystrobin

• Limin Chemical awarded honor of Excellent Supplier by Bayer AG Crop Science

  Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Companies

  Limin Chemical Co., Ltd.

  On the 22nd March 2019, Dr. Arne Baunemann, fungicide global sourcing director of Bayer AG Crop Science, visited the head office of Limin Chemical in China’s X...

• Hailir’s prothioconazole EU equivalence determined

  Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Products

  Hailir Pesticides and Chemicals Group Co., Ltd.

  AGROPAGES learned from China’s Hailir Pesticides and Chemicals Group that following the certification of pyraclostrobin, another product, prothioconazole techn...

• Brazil soy sales soar due to Chinese, Dollar, delays in US planting

  Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Markets

  Soybean sales in Brazil had been slowing down in recent weeks due to weakening prices, but the trend reversed course over the past ten days. The combination of ...

• China succeeded in first aerial pesticide application to rubber tree leaves

  Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Markets

  Recently, the Environment and Plant Protection Institute of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences joined with Shenzhen Huaya Technology and Hain...

• Syngenta expands its in-field demonstration platform

  Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Companies

  Syngenta United States

  In 2019, Syngenta's in-field demonstration platform will have 80 site locations across North America, an expansion from 2018. The enhancement, covering both Gro...

• Renaissance BioScience files PCT patent application for yeast-based RNA bioactive molecule production used in biocontrol

  Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Companies

  Renaissance BioScience Corp.

  Renaissance BioScience Corp., a leading biological engineering company, recently announced the filing on May 8, 2019 of a PCT patent application for a yeast pla...

• 232 tariff announcement lauded by the Fertilizer Institute

  Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Regulations

  The Fertilizer Institute (TFI)

  The Fertilizer Institute (TFI) President & CEO Chris Jahn lauded Friday's announcement by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on the removal of section ...

• US to help Pakistan introduce genetically-engineered corn

  Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Markets

  The Foreign Agricultural Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has said that future collaborative projects between the US and Pakistan i...

  Tags:GM cropMaize

• Xylella update: still no cure, control measures crucial

  Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Markets

  The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has updated its assessment of the risks posed by Xylella fastidiosa to plants and crops in the European Union. The new...

• Biotechnological companies DBN and Bioceres reaffirm its strategic alliance

  Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Companies

  In the Argentine Embassy in China and under the title “Introducing an Environmental Resilience”, alongside with its Chinese DBN partner, Bioceres company pres...

  Tags:Collaboration

• Tomato pan-genome makes bringing flavor back easier

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

  Almost everyone agrees that most store-bought tomatoes don't have much flavor. Now, scientists from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the Boyce Thomps...

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• Did you know that treated seeds perform better?

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

  Treated seed has a much better chance of thriving under adverse conditions when untreated seed might be challenged.

  Tags:Seed treatmentOrnamental and Turf

• How can tomato farming be improved in Kenya? Study finds producers face a ‘myriad of constraints’

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

  In a recently published paper in Scientific African, CABI’s Willis Ochilo led on a study which captured a better understanding of tomato producers in Kenya, de...

  Tags:Fruits and Vegetables

• Indian vice president calls for improving pulses productivity

  Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Markets

  The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu has called for increasing the acreage and productivity of pulses for achieving self-sufficiency and urged ag...

• PlantResponse Biotech announces license agreement with the University of Tübingen for trait technology

  Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Companies

  PlantResponse Biotech S.L.

  PlantResponse™ Biotech announced a licensing agreement has been signed with the University of Tübingen in Germany for trait technology that confers enhanced p...

• InVivo’s Bioline appointed CEO of the newly created Bioline Latam

  Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Companies

  The General Director of Agro-Sol Seeds, Eduardo Dallastra, has been appointed CEO of the newly created Bioline Latam and is now performing both functions concur...

• Bayer launches Sivanto Prime for control of aphids and whiteflies in vegetables in Italy

  Date：May. 22, 2019 Category：Products

  Bayer Crop Science introduced in the Italian market the new systemic insecticide Sivanto Prime to control aphids and whiteflies of the major vegetable crops, re...

  Tags:Bayer CropScienceFlupyradifurone