Regulations

• New Zealand EPA reviewing PGR hydrogen cyanamide rules

  Feb. 4, 2020

• Sindag: Use of drones in crop spraying should be regulated this year in Brazil

  Feb. 3, 2020

  # Latin America Focus ## Drone/UAV Plant Protection Industry #

• Chlorpyrifos, glyphosate, neonicotinoids and asulam could show U.K.'s post-Brexit regulation plans

  Feb. 3, 2020

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  Zimbabwe quietly lifts ban on genetically modified corn imports in bid to avert famine

  Feb. 3, 2020

  # GM Crops #
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  Bayer welcomes US EPA’s reaffirmation that glyphosate is safe to use, not carcinogenic

  Feb. 3, 2020

  Bayer CropScience U.S.

• US EPA issues proposed interim decision on neonicotinoids, opens comments

  Jan. 31, 2020

• US EPA reapproves glyphosate, claims pesticide poses no human health threat

  Jan. 31, 2020

• EU study to clarify gene editing court ruling further muddies waters

  Jan. 31, 2020

• New Zealand EPA may reassess neonicotinoid pesticides linked to honeybee declines

  Jan. 30, 2020

• Certain plant pesticides banned in Switzerland from July

  Jan. 29, 2020

• New Argentina agrochemical law went into effect in January

  Jan. 29, 2020

  # Latin America Focus #

• China issues biosafety certificates for herbicide-tolerant, insect-resistant corn and soybean, paving the way for local GMO crop cultivation

  Jan. 24, 2020

  # China Special #

• US EPA proposes new atrazine herbicide measures

  Jan. 24, 2020

• Chlorpyrifos ban proposed in Washington legislature

  Jan. 22, 2020

• U.S. EPA to deliver important decisions on chlorpyrifos, glyphosate, neonicotinoids, pyrethroids, atrazine and dicamba

  Jan. 21, 2020

• Spraying pesticides using drones illegal: Indian Agriculture Ministry to Hyderabad activist

  Jan. 20, 2020

  # India Special ## AgTech & Venture Capital ## Drone/UAV Plant Protection Industry #

• Brazil: Anvisa concludes public consultation on abamectin

  Jan. 17, 2020

  # Latin America Focus #
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  Brazil: Anvisa begins carbendazim re-evaluation

  Jan. 17, 2020

  # Latin America Focus #
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  US EPA to approve first beehive uses of biopesticide to control wax moths

  Jan. 16, 2020

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  New pesticide buffer zones anger French farmers

  Jan. 15, 2020

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  France bans flupyradifurone and sulfoxaflor as they harm bees

  Jan. 14, 2020

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  EU Commission bans Bayer pesticide linked to harming bees

  Jan. 14, 2020

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  EU ban chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl

  Jan. 13, 2020

• Courts may suspend, Roundup cancer trials expected to be anticipated

  Jan. 10, 2020

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  South Australia lifts ban on GM crops

  Jan. 9, 2020

  # GM Crops #
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  Bangladesh: Form action plan to stop use of Glyphosate containing pesticides

  Jan. 6, 2020

• Pakistan: New Bt cotton variety was approved by Punjab Seed Council

  Jan. 6, 2020

  # GM Crops #
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  Golden rice approved as safe for consumption in the Philippines

  Jan. 6, 2020

  # GM Crops #
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  Rwanda pilots ‘revolutionary’ potato seeds

  Jan. 6, 2020

  Solynta
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  Government survey okays Brazilian produce for pesticide residues

  Jan. 3, 2020

  # Latin America Focus #