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• Microbes that can reduce drought stress in sorghum identified

  Dec. 14, 2020

  # Science & Research #

• Inner Workings: RNA-based pesticides aim to get around resistance problems

  Dec. 14, 2020

  # Science & Research #
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  Verdant Technologies granted European patent for electrostatic printing of plant growth regulator

  Dec. 14, 2020

  Verdant Technologies

• Kenya losing fight against desert locust invasion

  Dec. 14, 2020

• Iran, Brazil to accelerate, facilitate plant products trade

  Dec. 14, 2020

  # Latin America Focus #
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  Canada approves BASF’s new pre-seed herbicide

  Dec. 14, 2020

  BASF Canada Inc

  # Newly Registered / Launched #
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  Wilbur-Ellis Agribusiness invests $4.5 million to better serve customers - Three new million-gallon tanks add efficiency to Pacific Northwest distribution facility

  Dec. 14, 2020

  Wilbur-Ellis Agribusiness

• Total control of Tuta absoluta - ICIPE releases wasp to control devastating tomato leafminer

  Dec. 14, 2020

  # Science & Research #

• International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) scientist Dr. Alfred Dixon named among top 20 most influential plant breeders in Africa

  Dec. 14, 2020

  International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
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  Taranis relocates global HQ to Westfield Indiana, US

  Dec. 14, 2020

  Taranis

  # Digital Agriculture #
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  In exclusive chat with UPL CEO, JR Shroff calls allegations against him 'malicious' even as share price plunges

  Dec. 14, 2020

  UPL Limited

  # India Special #
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  Mosaic, BioConsortia to collaborate on new nitrogen-fixing microbial products

  Dec. 14, 2020

  BioConsortia, Inc
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  Dialogue to lift suspension of crop protection agent UPL's d-limonene in Germany ongoing

  Dec. 14, 2020

  UPL Limited

  # India Special #
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  Farmers' group supporting new farm laws meets Agriculture Minister

  Dec. 14, 2020

  # India Special #
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  13 Brazilian Agribusiness startups to keep an eye on in 2021

  Dec. 11, 2020

  Renato Seraphim

  # AgTech & Venture Capital ## Latin America Focus ## Interview #

• US EPA to consider reapproving previously banned use of extremely toxic pesticide aldicarb on citrus trees in Florida, Texas

  Dec. 11, 2020

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  German agrochemicals major Bayer to enter India's home garden segment

  Dec. 11, 2020

  Bayer CropScience India

  # India Special #
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  US: BASF enhances cottonseed seed treatment packages

  Dec. 11, 2020

  BASF Crop Protection USA

  # Seed Treatment #

• Agtech market value to reach $ 22.5 billion by 2025

  Dec. 11, 2020

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  Spanish biocontrol company Idai Nature opens first branch in Brazil

  Dec. 11, 2020

  IDAI NATURE

  # Latin America Focus #
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  BASF launches first tomato variety with intermediate resistance to ToBRFV in Mexico

  Dec. 11, 2020

  Nunhems (BASF Vegetable Seeds)

  # Newly Registered / Launched ## Latin America Focus #
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  Koppert acquires Brazilian Geocom to accelerate precision agrifarming

  Dec. 11, 2020

  Koppert do Brasil

  # Latin America Focus ## Drone/UAV Plant Protection Industry #
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  UPL – a story of growth, girth & complex operations

  Dec. 11, 2020

  UPL Limited

  # India Special #

• Rabobank provides semi-annual global fertilizer outlook

  Dec. 11, 2020

  # India Special #
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  How technology is making Indian agriculture smarter, inclusive and more resilient

  Dec. 11, 2020

  # AgTech & Venture Capital ## India Special #
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  Syngenta Crop Protection in North America announces development of new insecticide active ingredient, spiropidion

  Dec. 11, 2020

  Syngenta United States

• France to help farmers to abandon glyphosate weedkiller

  Dec. 10, 2020

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  Corteva reveals new look for flagship seed brand Pioneer in Europe

  Dec. 10, 2020

  Corteva Agriscience

  # Seed Treatment #

• Record-breaking 76 low impact pesticides registered in Brazil in 2020

  Dec. 10, 2020

  # Newly Registered / Launched ## Latin America Focus #

• Pesticide tests on Thai fruit show red grapes and dates with high MRLs

  Dec. 10, 2020