US EPA announces 2020 dicamba registration decision2020-10-28At the Cromley Farm, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced that EPA is approving new five-year registrations for two dicamba products and extending the registration of an additional dicamba product. All three registrations include new c...
How pesticides are playing really important role in Indian agriculture?2020-10-26Looking at the Pesticides Industry of India, since the last 60 years, use of pesticides has greatly helped Indian farmers for agriculture and providing nutrition security to the country. According to the research reports, the Indian Pesticides market in 2019 stood at Rs 214 Billi...
China’s MARA formally promulgates Catalogue of Class 1 Crop Pests and Diseases2020-10-26On 15 September, 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China (MARA) issued the No. 333 Document of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, promulgating the Catalogue of Class 1 Crop Pests and Diseases (the Catalogue) to strengthen ...
Indian agricultural reform: What to make of the new farm Bills2020-10-26India is facing massive twin crises in health and the economy. As in the past, the economic crisis has spurred the introduction of politically difficult reforms, this time in agriculture. Agriculture in India remains an important source of livelihoods, and farmers’ constituencies...
How digital farmers of China can grow a post-COVID-19 future2020-10-26At the beginning of 2020, China’s central government announced plans to pilot a “digital village”. It’s the country’s latest push towards a “Digital China” since the information consumption policy of 2013, which promotes the use of information technology to stimulate more domesti...
Pesticides to assume pivotal function of crop protection as India endeavors to help horticulture2020-10-22The utilization of pesticides since the last few decades has helped Indian farmers massively to guarantee supportability in agribusiness and give sustenance security to the country. Nonetheless, today the issue of manageable ecological practice and safety issues for food have con...
Regulations on agrochemical adjuvant in Latin America2020-10-22Until 2017, adjuvants in Brazil were regulated by the same legislation as agrochemicals (Law 7,802 regulated by Decree 4,074) and, therefore, were subject to the same registration process. Scientific researcher Hamilton Ramos (Coordinator of the Agronomic Institute, IAC), explain...
U.S. agribusiness industry feels ripple effect of tumultuous agrochemical markets in India2020-10-22India’s government in May moved to ban 27 pesticides, including key products like mancozeb, 2,4-D, and chlorpyrifos, after its Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare concluded the products are “likely to involve risk to human beings and animals.”The country’s agricultural in...
Pesticides to play crucial role of crop insurance as India strives to boost agriculture2020-10-22The use of pesticides since the last 60 years has helped Indian farmers immensely to ensure sustainability in agriculture and provide nutrition security to the nation at large. However, today the issue of sustainable environmental practice and food safety issues have forced us to...