Every year, locust infestations threaten Central Asian countries. Devouring crops and rangelands, they jeopardize the food security of thousands of people for which agriculture is the only source of i...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released for public comment its proposed decision to register the first food uses of the pesticide chlormequat chloride to provide farmers with an ad...
This season, growers once again face a battle with high input prices and market volatility that puts their profitability at risk. A cool, wet spring and continuing wet weather patterns across much of ...
The Central Government after considering the report of the Expert Committee and after consultation with the Registration Committee concluded that the use of three pesticides Dicofol, Dinocap, and Meth...
France will continue to export grain to countries in North Africa after the food safety watchdog agreed to roll back a planned ban of phosphine, an insecticide that certain countries require to be use...
Aphids are a priority pest to manage for most Australian producers, and new research from Cesar Australia investigating the implications of neonicotinoid resistance in the green peach aphid (Myzus per...
Sugarcane contributed US$1.67 billion in agrochemicals in the 2022 (fiscal year) in Brazil, Kynetec consultancy revealed to AgroPages.Growth regulators and other products �? adjuvants, pH reducers, in...
Potato is the third most important food crop in the world after rice and wheat in terms of human consumption. But potato world production is threatened by potato late blight, one of the most devastati...
Since late 2020, there has been a severe drought in East Africa. In large areas of Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya, there have been four consecutively seasons with insufficient rainfall, resulting in the ...
From China to the U.S. to the European Union, rice production is falling and driving up prices for more than 3.5 billion people across the globe, particularly in Asia-Pacific – which consumes 90% of t...
Researchers at four universities – three in the U.S. and one in China -- say that increasingly warmer weather patterns in the Corn Belt could increase the growth of a toxin that would swell farmers’ l...
In recent years, the bioinput market has become increasingly present in agriculture, showing vigorous growth in Brazil. According to various market source information, the segment is broad and generat...