Mexico's top science agency has cut its recommendation for maximum glyphosate imports by half this year, urging agriculture businesses to take steps to reach a government target of phasing out the herbicide completely by 2024.Mexico's National Council of Science and Technology, C...

Russian biologists have studied strains of the plant pathogenic fungus Rhizoctonia solani, which causes diseases in potatoes and other plants. Among them, three particularly dangerous strains to be not susceptible to the common fungicide pencycuron and can survive at high tempera...

Indian economy is still primarily driven by agriculture sector. As per Provisional Estimates of Annual of National Income, released by National Statistical Office (NSO), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India, contribution of agriculture and alli...

Reversing decades of practice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking meaningful action to further the Agency’s compliance with the Endangered Species Act (ESA) when evaluating and registering new pesticide active ingredients (AIs). Effective today, before EPA r...

A ban on two common pesticides in Australia would increase cropping costs and decrease farm profit according to a study recently published in the journal Agricultural.Written by The University Of Western Australia masters student Alison Walsh and co-authored by professor Ross Kin...

A pesticide which can harm bees has been approved for use in 2022.Emergency use of a product containing the chemical thiamethoxam has been authorised in England because of a virus which affects sugar beets.The decision came despite expert advisers finding pollution from the pesti...

There is a lot of speculation about herbicide shortages for the 2022 growing season, and some products are apparently getting more expensive and/or scarce now. This will affect herbicide buying and weed management decisions for the 2022 season. The two main active ingredients tha...

Farmers groups have vowed to fight the proposal that Kenya bans some of the commonly-used pesticides.The pressure for a ban comes from organic food groups and the "farm to fork" strategy by the European Union.Farmers in Eastern and Central Kenya said small-holders would be hardes...

The UK's Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has approved an emergency temporary authorisation for the use of a neonicotinoid pesticide treatment on the 2022 sugar beet crop in England only due to the risk to the crop from yellows viruses.Emerging sugar beet ...

Farmlands are turning more saline due to climate change, rising sea levels, expanding drylands, and groundwater depletion. This crisis is exacerbated by unsustainable farming practices. The resulting loss in crop yield threatens malnourished populations across the globe. Therefor...