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• N.THING, a South Korean AgriTech startup secures $26 million in fundraising to accelerated growth and expansion worldwide

  Date：Oct. 5, 2021 Category：Companies

  N.THING

  ​Korean AgriTech startup N.Thing, has raised $21 million in series B fundraising that is up from a $5 million in previous series that is secured $26 million in...

• UPL Ltd. joins The Climate Pledge, furthering a commitment to reshape the role of global agriculture in the fight against climate change

  Date：Oct. 5, 2021 Category：Companies

  UPL Limited

  UPL Ltd. (NSE: UPL & BSE: 512070) has announced that it has joined The Climate Pledge (‘TCP’). UPL joins as the Pledge’s first signatory from the agricultura...

  Tags:Carbon footprint

• Syngenta UK: Hybrid barley trials look to reduce nitrogen inputs by up to 30%

  Date：Oct. 5, 2021 Category：Products

  Syngenta UK Limited

  Following on from the successful Syngenta Germany results on reducing nitrogen inputs in hybrid barley, the Syngenta UK team are keenly awaiting the results of ...

  Tags:Carbon footprint

• BASF and The SCN Coalition join forces as part of soybean cyst nematode action month

  Date：Oct. 5, 2021 Category：Companies

  BASF Crop Protection USA

  Soybean Cyst Nematode (SCN) is the leading cause of soybean yield loss in North America, and two industry allies are taking action to prevent loss due to SCN.

  Tags:Soybean

• Technology to ensure food security in China

  Date：Oct. 5, 2021 Category：Markets

  According to the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), China will improve efforts to create higher yields and higher quality production of major food...

• Switzerland extends its GMO moratorium, explicitly covering gene-edited GM plants

  Date：Oct. 5, 2021 Category：Regulations

  The Swiss National Council (lower house of the Swiss Federal Assembly, the parliament of Switzerland) has extended the moratorium on the cultivation of genetica...

• How pheromone innovations contribute to sustainable crop protection

  Date：Oct. 5, 2021 Category：Companies

  AgroPages interviewed experts from Certis Europe, BASF, BioPhero, Pherobank and Trifolio-M GmbH. They introduced their pheromone innovations, and shared the vie...

• New genomic research facility to support food security efforts in the UAE and abroad

  Date：Oct. 4, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  BGI

  A new advanced genomic research facility was inaugurated recently at the headquarters of the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) to further ge...

• The Philippines: State-of-the-art Crop Biotechnology Center of the Department of Agriculture to help ensure food security

  Date：Oct. 4, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Agriculture Secretary William Dar led the inauguration of the state-of-the-art Crop Biotechnology Center (CBC) of the Department of Agriculture (DA) that will d...

• England: Eustice goes ahead with unpopular plan to dismantle GM safeguards

  Date：Oct. 4, 2021 Category：Regulations

  Earlier last week George Eustice, the Environment Secretary, revealed plans to stop the likes of me being able to object to field trials of experimental genetic...

• Benson Hill completes business combination with Star Peak Corp II

  Date：Oct. 4, 2021 Category：Companies

  Benson Hill, Inc., a food technology company unlocking the natural genetic diversity of plants with its cutting-edge food innovation engine, recently announced ...

• New technology from Agri Technovation will help achieve more regular cropping

  Date：Oct. 4, 2021 Category：Products

  Agri Technovation

  There is a new technology that monitors a fruit tree’s carbohydrate status, allowing for timely corrective action, if needed, to ensure an optimal harvest.

• Photonics sensor able to spot bacteria on fruit and vegetables

  Date：Oct. 4, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  A new detector is under development that will be able to spot minute traces of poisonous elements with photonics, giving a result in a matter of minutes. This i...

• The role of genetic technologies in sustainable agriculture

  Date：Oct. 4, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The climate emergency is the most important threat facing our planet. At The Sainsbury Laboratory, their plant health science always factors in the interwoven t...

• ICRISAT’S advanced genomic technologies assist pearl millet and chickpea innovation in India

  Date：Oct. 4, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Mr Narendra Modi dedicated to the nation 35 new crop varieties and hybrids of which three were the outcome of collaboration with ICRISAT.

• China is expected to stop phosphate exports, food production prices will rise

  Date：Oct. 4, 2021 Category：Regulations

  The cost of producing food will increase with the Chinese government expecting to limit the production and export of a crucial agricultural fertilizer.

• Nothing will stop ban on use of glyphosate, insists Greenpeace

  Date：Oct. 4, 2021 Category：Regulations

  The ban on the controversial herbicide glyphosate cannot be averted, the environmental NGO Greenpeace said Tuesday.

• Top biologicals news in September 2021

  Date：Oct. 4, 2021 Category：Products

  Here lsits the most-viewed news regarding biostimulant/biopesticide products, distribution partnership, markets and viewpoints that were published on AgroPages ...

• India to start commercial production of nano urea

  Date：Oct. 4, 2021 Category：Markets

  Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO)

  In the presence of Union Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers and Health & Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya, a practical field trial of Drone Spraying of Nano Li...

• Brazil's 2021/22 sugarcane crop encountered numerous problems

  Date：Oct. 1, 2021 Category：Markets

  The sugarcane producers in Brazil are not having a very good year. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong with the 2021/22 sugarcane crop. The first thing ...

• Bayer: Extensive results reinforce strong confidence in Mateno® Complete herbicide

  Date：Oct. 1, 2021 Category：Products

  Bayer Australia and New Zealand

  Agronomists, farm advisors and rural resellers can have further confidence in the effectiveness of Bayer’s new Mateno® Complete grass weed and broadleaf weed ...

• Clover growth in Mars-like soils boosted by bacterial symbiosis - Benefits of nitrogen-fixing bacteria could aid efforts toward farming soils on Mars

  Date：Oct. 1, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Clover plants grown in Mars-like soils experience significantly more growth when inoculated with symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria than when left uninoculated....

• Australia: Improved weed control with Corteva’s new drill-seeded rice herbicide

  Date：Oct. 1, 2021 Category：Products

  Corteva Agriscience

  A new herbicide for drill-seeded rice is providing the ideal option for Barnyard grass control from the vital three leaf stage of the rice crop. Corteva Agrisci...

• U.S. soybean, corn yields could be increased through use of machine learning

  Date：Oct. 1, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  Research guided by a plant pathologist in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences suggests that machine-learning algorithms that are programmed to recogn...

• Farmers Business Network releases industry's only seed relabeling report

  Date：Oct. 1, 2021 Category：Markets

  Farmers Business Network, Inc. (FBN)

  Farmers Business Network (FBN), the global farmer-to-farmer network and ag tech company, recently released the industry's only seed relabeling report which foun...

• Long-lasting biological seed treatments: KWS launches first product

  Date：Oct. 1, 2021 Category：Products

  KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA

  KWS has been working on the further development of biologicals for many years. With a new stabilization process, beneficial microorganisms can now be preserved ...

• New molecule registration system is evolving fast in India

  Date：Oct. 1, 2021 Category：Regulations

  Speaking at the virtual conference on the sidelines of CropLife India's 41st Annual General Meeting, Dr. Malhotra listed out the renewed efforts by the governme...

• India: Agrochemicals industry needs to be future ready

  Date：Oct. 1, 2021 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

  The change in climatic conditions is going to impact agricultural productivity in a huge way. It will manifest in terms of rise in temperature, humidity, and pr...

• Amplicon technology: a new way to detect tobacco whitefly resistance

  Date：Oct. 1, 2021 Category：Science&Research

  The Vegetable Pest Research Laboratory has established a method to detect gene mutation frequencies in micro-insects using amplicon technology and detected the ...

• Four Mediterranean countries support the transition towards innovative, sustainable and competitive greenhouses

  Date：Oct. 1, 2021 Category：Products

  iGUESS-MED (Innovative Greenhouse Support System in the Mediterranean Region: efficient fertigation and pest management through IoT based climate control) is a ...