When wheat prices rise, so do global food prices, along with conflict, inequality and instability. Over the past two decades, the world has witnessed multiple crises erupt over the social and political instability caused by rising costs for staple cereals. The global food crisis ...

China will step up use of export credit insurance, which protects an exporter from the risk of nonpayment by a foreign buyer, and raise foreign trade enterprises' risk-hedging capability for the two way fluctuation of the renminbi exchange rate, as part of its holistic efforts to...

China has unveiled a master plan for the modernization of the agricultural sector and rural areas through 2025, as the government ratchets up measures to ensure food security, helps farmers bolster incomes and consolidates the outcomes of its poverty reduction campaign.The plan, ...

Insecticide resistance and rapid pest evolution threatens food security and the development of sustainable agricultural practices, yet the evolutionary mechanisms that allow pests to rapidly adapt to control tactics is unclear. The Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineat...

Startups developing biological inputs for crops raised just over $892 million worldwide last year, according to preliminary data from AgFunder.That’s well over double their total funding haul for the previous year – indicating just how much interest in the space has grown.Please ...

All living things have their natural enemies, and in the case of crop pests and diseases, the key is to find them, isolate them, and mass-produce them for application. Chemical pesticides have long been the most widespread solution to these problems, but as concerns around their ...

The prices of the two mainstream herbicides, acetochlor and butachlor, rose significantly in the past year, and will remain high this year because of the lack of supply. According to the herbicide technical price index published by Sino Agri on February 6, 2022, the price of buta...

The central government of India may soon finalise a production linked incentive (PLI) scheme for agrochemicals. Specific products that will enjoy the benefits under the scheme have been identified, and the industry consultations are over, it is learnt. Once announced, agrochemica...

In recent years, with the increased control of new entry level pesticide projects in China’s eastern coastal provinces, especially in light of the strict regulation of chemical parks in the major chemical production provinces, most notably Jiangsu, some chemical manufacturers wer...

The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs recently issued the “Resolution on GM Biosafety Evaluation Management Measure” (Draft for Comment), which will make amendments to some of provisions of previous management measures, in line with the latest GM development requi...