The Argentine bioinput market has increased by 15% to 17%, the Chamber of Agricultural and Fertilizer Health (Casafe) informed AgroPages exclusively. According to the entity, this segment incorporat...
European Union governments failed on last Friday to give a decisive opinion on a proposal to extend by 10 years EU approval for the use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Bayer AG's Roundup weedk...
A complete ban on the use of glyphosate in agriculture in the short term will lead to farmers more frequently using other pesticides and also non-chemical alternatives that, on balance, are not necess...
Brazilian labor prosecutors have requested a court order to ban the use of atrazine, which is present in 5% of pesticides sold in the country, the prosecutors said on last Thursday. National health ...
The Chilean Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG) announced a ban on 14 groups of pesticides considered ″highly dangerous″ for people, animals and the environment. The resolution, signed by José Gu...
A new species of leafhopper that attacks corn was detected in two more Brazilian states in the southern region, Rio Grande do Sul and Paraná, which are two of the largest cereal producers in the count...
WUR researchers Violette Geissen and Pieter de Wolf stress that the environmental risks of using chemical pesticides must be reduced as much as possible. However, whether the available alternatives ar...
The European Commission has proposed to renew the approval of glyphosate – a common and contentious herbicide – for a period of 10 years, with a number of restrictions. The EU executive submitted a ...
Mexico is the leading crop protection market in Central America, along with Guatemala and Nicaragua. Showing a growth of between 2015 and 2020, the country’s agrochemical market reached a value of US$...
Brazil broke a new record for registrations of low-impact pesticides in 2022, according to the Department of Plant Health and Agricultural Inputs of the Agricultural Defense Secretariat, linked to the...
The European Commission has decided not to renew the approval of the pesticide active ingredient dimoxystrobin. The non-renewal is based on concerns over the potential for toxic metabolites of dimoxys...
There are three possible reasons for Brazil to emerge as the world’s largest producer and user of biocontrol agents, pointed out researchers Wagner Bettiol from Embrapa, and Flávio Medeiros from the F...