Pesticide use in Hungary averaged 1.5 kg per hectare in 2019, around the mid-range in a comparison with other European Union member states, news agency MTI reports, citing data compiled by the Central...
Various beetle species have gobbled through grain stores and weakened food production worldwide since ancient times. Now, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have discovered a better way of ta...
The question of whether the increased adoption of genetically engineered (GE) crops has led farmers to use more or fewer pesticides is one of the most controversial questions confronting agricultural ...
Stem rust is a devastating disease of cereal crops, including barley, one of the first domesticated crops in agriculture and the fourth most widely grown crop in the world. Barley is unique because it...
Early last year, Ugandan experts forecast 40-50% adoption of the new bioengineered potato 3R Victoria in 15 years’ time. Field trials showed significantly higher yields without the use of fungicide. T...
A survey that maps the biological and economic aspects of the use of 2,4-D-based herbicides in agriculture in Brazil indicates that replacing them with other alternatives would represent an additional...
Drones could soon be adopted as essential tools for various agricultural tasks; however, with respect to their use in farm management, research is still lacking. To address this issue, researchers in ...
Act No. 19 of the Department of Plant Protection and Agricultural Defense Secretariat Agricultural Inputs, published on April 13th, in the Official Gazette, announced the 39 generic crop protection pr...
In a world-first breakthrough for research into herbicide resistance, a team of Australian and international scientists has discovered a new glyphosate resistance mechanism in plants that has similari...
According to China Pesticide Registration Watch, 183 product registrations from 134 companies were approved by the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA) in March,...
According to ‘2019–2020 Annual Report’ published recently by the Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA), over the 10-year period between 2009 and 2019, the increase of the number of registe...
According to ‘2019–2020 Annual Report’ published recently by the Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA), in 2019–2020, 12 new active ingredients (the substance with the pesticidal effect) w...