Agriculture in any country plays a very vital role in contribution towards its GDP, in addition to feeding of respective human or animal population. Time and time people have felt the need to introduce or use new innovative cultivation/monitoring practices or use of geographical/...

Urban areas contain more than half the world’s population and contribute to some 70% of the planet’s energy emissions. Cities guzzle the bulk of Earth’s resources and produce more waste. Many residents live in “urban food deserts.” And buildings are literally making their occupan...

In 2019, the ENDURE network launched a survey on the agricultural use of glyphosate in European countries. This report presents the results obtained through the survey and proposes a framework for understanding and monitoring glyphosate uses.The share of herbicides among all pest...

The entire world remains concerned about the effects, COVID-19 pandemic will have on world food and agriculture in near future, amid lives and livelihoods exposed under risk from this pandemic. The rapid spread of the viral disease has left everybody much concerned regarding fate...

The impact of the COVID-19 crisis on petrochemicals and chemicals sector will differ across value chains, with segments like packaging witnessing an uplift, a report said.In the chemicals sector, the crisis has resulted in several Indian companies getting order inflows from globa...

The sharp global economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the collapse in crude oil prices has wide-ranging implications for the fertilizers industry.Bookmark this Topic Page to stay up to date at this unprecedented time with expert insight and analysis of the imp...

COVID-19 has shaken the whole world impacting society and the global economy similar to the effect of a world war. Among many economic sectors, the frozen potato products value chain has been confronted with a true drama. The global lock down closing restaurants and halted touris...

The Association of American Pesticide Control Officials (AAPCO) sent EPA a letter asking that the agency consider banning postemergence use of four dicamba herbicides -- XtendiMax (Bayer), Engenia (BASF), FeXapan (Corteva) and Tavium (Syngenta) -- when it makes its decision on th...

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published the results of its two pilot assessments on the risks posed to humans by residues of multiple pesticides in food, but  an EU association advocating for a reduction of pesticides has deemed them “unfit for purpose.”The assess...