By Think Real - In Feb. 2020, COVID-19 epidemic has been further controlled in China, so enterprises started to make preparation for their production resumption. In order to get a better understanding...
By Think Real - On 20 February, 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (MARA) issued four policy measures to improve pesticide-related administrative app...
With spring planting on track and with sufficient supplies of agricultural materials such as seeds and fertilizers, China is confident it can fulfill its grain production goal despite the impact of th...
The Indian government has put forward a Pesticides Management Bill. Apart from the huge compensation proposed for farmers whose crops have been destroyed by pesticides, what is there in this bill for ...
Paraquat, a contact herbicide, has been banned or severely restricted in over 20 countries around the world due to its toxicity to humans and no available antidote.In 2008, the Brazilian National Heal...
The outbreak of the new coronavirus during the Spring Festival has surely had an impact on the Chinese economy. While efforts are being made across the country to fight the epidemic, the delay of the ...
After the outbreak of the largest locust plague in Pakistan in the past 27 years, on February 24, the Chinese government sent a locust infestation control work team consisting of top Chinese locust co...
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the national yield of chemical pesticide reached 2.083 million tons in 2018, down by 9.5% on a cumulative basis. The national yield of chemical pesticid...
The ongoing lockdown of Hubei province, a key producer in China’s huge fertiliser industry, is spurring the biggest buyer of one of the crop-growing ingredients to look for other suppliers.India is th...
It has been over 50 years since the development of chlorpyrifos by Dow AgroSciences, now known as Corteva Agriscience, with the product being registered in over 100 countries across the world. As a co...
Weed control is one of the most important steps in agricultural production. The sales of herbicides ranks first among the global market share of pesticides. However, the use of a large number of chemi...
Several Member States have been late in fully transposing the directive on sustainable use of pesticides, while incentives for farmers to adopt alternative methods remain weak. In addition, the Europe...