The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Friday announced a long-awaited interim decision regarding the reregistration of the triazines: atrazine, propazine, and simazine.After years of research and public comments from the agriculture community, EPA Administrator Andrew Wh...

A recent investigation by Unearthed and Public Eye revealed that Morocco is one of the top destinations for European countries exporting toxic pesticides that are banned in the EU.The investigation revealed that the UK and EU states including Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Fran...

The high cost and lengthy requirements for EU registration are severely limiting the development and commercialisation of BioProtection solutions in Europe – this needs to be addressed urgently.BioProtection (known as biopesticide) solutions present one of the fastest growing sec...

In 2017, France set itself the goal of completely banning glyphosate in 2023, before Emmanuel Macron believes that this was not possible.The deputies did not enshrine in law the ban on glyphosate by 2021 despite Emmanuel Macron's promise.The government will ban "more than half" o...

The Pesticides Management Bill 2020 (PMB) was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on 23 March 2020 to replace The Insecticides Act 1968, which currently governs the registration, manufacturing, export, sale and use of pesticides in India. While PMB is noble in intent, its many lacunae ...

According to a survey conducted by Sindiveg (National Union of Industry of Products for Plant Defense), the total area treated with agrochemicals in Brazil grew by 9.8% in the 2nd quarter of 2020 (April to June), reaching 142.4 million hectares compared to 129.8 million hectares ...

Six pesticides play an oversized role in undermining the safety of the fruits and vegetables Americans regularly consume. These pesticides contribute the most risk in the lowest-rated fruits and vegetables in CR’s study.In some cases, a pesticide appeared in almost all of the sam...

Chinese researchers have developed a more targeted approach to control fall armyworm by using drones to spray a new kind of granular pesticide, according to the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS).Fall armyworm larvae usually live deep inside corn leaves, making it di...

After years of complaints by farmers about the harmful effects of the herbicide dicamba, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled that the sale and use of the pesticide is now illegal.   A weed killer, dicamba has been used for decades to kill weeds before crops were p...

Punjab government, through a notification, has banned the usage of nine pesticides, generally used for Basmati and non Basmati crops, for 60 days — August 14 to October 14. There are over 10,000 pesticide dealers in Punjab and almost all of them had stocked up ahead of the sowing...