At the beginning of 2020, China’s central government announced plans to pilot a “digital village”. It’s the country’s latest push towards a “Digital China” since the information consumption policy of 2013, which promotes the use of information technology to stimulate more domesti...

The utilization of pesticides since the last few decades has helped Indian farmers massively to guarantee supportability in agribusiness and give sustenance security to the country. Nonetheless, today the issue of manageable ecological practice and safety issues for food have con...

Until 2017, adjuvants in Brazil were regulated by the same legislation as agrochemicals (Law 7,802 regulated by Decree 4,074) and, therefore, were subject to the same registration process. Scientific researcher Hamilton Ramos (Coordinator of the Agronomic Institute, IAC), explain...

India’s government in May moved to ban 27 pesticides, including key products like mancozeb, 2,4-D, and chlorpyrifos, after its Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare concluded the products are “likely to involve risk to human beings and animals.”The country’s agricultural in...

The use of pesticides since the last 60 years has helped Indian farmers immensely to ensure sustainability in agriculture and provide nutrition security to the nation at large. However, today the issue of sustainable environmental practice and food safety issues have forced us to...

The United States (US) is a dominant force in the global agrochemical market, either with regard to the development of novel technology, policy direction, or the expeditions in new commercial approach. In recent years, the US government’s regulations, rules and trade policy towar...

The Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency, Anvisa, on Wednesday, October 7, announced they were extending the deadline for the consumption of the remaining stocks of products based on the herbicide Paraquat that are already in the possession of farmers. The decision was m...

A previously banned insecticide, which was approved for agricultural use last year in the United States, is harmful for bees and other beneficial insects that are crucial for agriculture, and a second pesticide in widespread use also harms these insects. That is according to a ne...

A majority of French MPs have voted to approve a controversial provision authorising the temporary reintroduction of banned neonicotinoids - a class of insecticide - to save beet farmers from ravaging aphids, small sap-sucking insects. The agriculture minister said “there is no a...

The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) has developed new biopesticides that gives hope to sustainable agriculture in Africa.The bio-pesticide products included 417 botanicals, 274 microbial and 271 microbial extracts, or fermentation products.Of the pro...