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• Start-ups see an opening for new crop protection chemistry

  Oct. 6, 2020

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  SynTech now offers advanced resistance testing monitoring service

  Oct. 6, 2020

  SynTech Research Group

  # CROs & CRAOs #

• GM insect-resistant Bt corn boosts crop yields over 30%, cuts insecticide use 78% in Vietnam, study finds

  Oct. 6, 2020

  # GM Crops #

• Cornell Chronicle: Centers of Innovation will spur global crop development

  Oct. 6, 2020

• AI and drones come to the farm in Japan

  Oct. 6, 2020

  # Digital Agriculture #

• USDA releases annual report showing GMO planted acres

  Oct. 6, 2020

  # GM Crops #
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  Analysing the centre’s reforms in Indian agriculture sector

  Oct. 6, 2020

  # India Special #

• AutoWeed develops spraying robot for sugarcane farms

  Oct. 5, 2020

  # AgTech & Venture Capital ## Digital Agriculture #
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  The search is on for nontoxic solutions to fall armyworm across Africa

  Oct. 5, 2020

  AgBiTech Pty Ltd
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  MustGrow commences banana ‘Panama Disease’ testing in Colombia

  Oct. 5, 2020

  MustGrow Biologics Corp.

  # Latin America Focus #

• EU not to renew benalaxyl and fenamiphos

  Oct. 5, 2020

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  Biotalys awarded €1.1 million VLAIO research grant

  Oct. 5, 2020

  Biotalys (formerly AgroSavfe)

  # Fungicides & Bactericides #
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  crop.zone Gmbh and MASCOR Institute Aachen announce strategic alliance

  Oct. 5, 2020

  crop.zone GmbH

• ‘Inclusion of NAAS, TAAS, and Farmers’ Union recommendations in Pesticides Management Bill 2020 will render it science-based and pro-farmer’

  Oct. 5, 2020

  # India Special #

• BASF marks 25-year partnership with USask Crop Development Centre

  Oct. 5, 2020

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  Nitrasol liquid fertilisers launches revolutionary new UAN inhibitor in UK

  Oct. 5, 2020

  Verdesian Life Sciences, LLC

  # Newly Registered / Launched #
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  Tessenderlo Kerley International and Van Iperen International sign a global distribution agreement

  Oct. 5, 2020

  Tessenderlo Kerley, Inc. (TKI)
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  Isagro closes the sales of fluindapyr to FMC for €55 million

  Oct. 5, 2020

  Isagro S.p.a
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  GROPRO earns OMRI-listing providing biologicals portfolio to organic growers

  Oct. 5, 2020

  GROPRO

  # Organic Farming #

• University of Georgia awarded $2.7 million grant to fight fungus in broccoli

  Oct. 5, 2020

• Can organic plant protection products damage crops? Researchers at Göttingen University discover new disease affecting maize

  Oct. 5, 2020

  # Science & Research #

• A One CGIAR initiative to unlock the potential of gene editing for agriculture

  Oct. 5, 2020

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  Indian experts: The chemicals used to kill locusts also harm humans and the environment

  Oct. 5, 2020

  # India Special #
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  Rizobacter adds the Carbon Footprint Certification to its sustainable management

  Oct. 2, 2020

  Rizobacter

• Happy accident: Researchers discover promising new seed treatment

  Oct. 2, 2020

  # Science & Research ## Seed Treatment #

• First-generation free trade agreement between Colombia and Israel

  Oct. 2, 2020

• New Crop Science Centre opens in Cambridge

  Oct. 2, 2020

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  Nihon Nohyaku’s new insecticides “Orchestra® flowable” and “Orchestra® dust formulation” registered in Japan

  Oct. 2, 2020

  Nihon Nohyaku Co., Ltd.

  # Newly Registered / Launched #
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  Enza Zaden identifies a gene providing high levels of resistance against Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (ToBRFV)

  Oct. 2, 2020

  Enza Zaden BV
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  KeyGene and Tierra Seed Science collaborate for innovation in rice

  Oct. 2, 2020

  KeyGene Inc

  # India Special #