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Gene editing expands soybean planting in China
2019-07-10
Chinese agricultural scientists using gene-editing technology have created new soybean mutants, which could lead to soybean crops in much warmer climates including South China and countries near the Equator. To create the soybean mutants, research teams from the Chinese Academy o...
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Canadian canola loses China market as bilateral relationship weighs on grain trade
2019-07-10
A view of Canadian canola field File photo: ICCanada-grown canola, which has been restricted in China's market due to quality problems, faces the risk of full suspension of shipments to China, as there is no sign that the soured bilateral relationship is improving, industry insid...
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Meet us at the AgroChemEx America 2019,Colombia
2019-06-25
The date of AgroChemEx America 2019 is drawing near. On 25th&26th July 2019, we are happy to meet you at Sheraton Bogota Hotel, Colombia. Remember our Booth No. A32. “Agrochemex Colombia” is ready to facilitate your business development in Colombia and other neighbor countries ...
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Our factory won 2019 China's pesticide industry sales top 20
2019-06-20
At the 6th Pesticide Industry Economic Operation Analysis Meeting and Agrochemical Industry Ranking Conference, China Pesticide Industry Association issued the “2019 China Pesticide Industry Top 50 Agents” list, Jiangsu Aijin Agrochemical Co., Ltd. ranked 19 .
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Northeast China expands soybean cultivation, reduces reliance on US imports
2019-06-14
China has been expanding the amount of land used to grow soybeans and diversifying its source of imports to reduce reliance on imports from the US - its second-largest supplier - amid a yearlong trade war between the world's two largest economies. In Northeast China, the soybean...
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China: Trials underway for saltwater rice strains
2019-06-12
Researchers from Saline-Alkali Tolerant Rice Research and Development Center apply fertilizer to rice seedlings in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, May 9, 2019. (Photo/Xinhua)China has planted about 300 new strains of saltwater-tolerant rice on 670 hectares of experimenta...
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Price & supply trend: Prices of Chinese fungicide technical rising sharply, tight supply to continue...
2019-06-12
China’s nation-wide work safety inspection is currently ongoing, and is being expanded to cover more regions. As a result, there is an increase in the number of factories in which production has been shut down or restricted. Compared to last month, the major production of herbic...
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Chinese pesticide spray additives market volume to hit 500,000 tons
2019-06-04
According to a speech from deputy general agriculturist, Zhang Wenjun, from China’s ICAMA (Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture) at the second Pesticide Formulation and Adjuvant Congress held in Leshan, Sichuan, China, today, the volume of the Chine...
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Impact of GM Crops on Soil Health
2019-05-30
A healthy agricultural production system cannot exist without healthy soils. Aside from being the habitat of diverse organisms that contribute to carbon sequestration, the soil plays a vital role in food production as well as in climate change mitigation.Majority of the carbon di...
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New mutations for herbicide resistance rarer than expected, study finds
2019-05-30
U. of I. crop sciences professor Patrick Tranel and his colleagues are working to understand the processes that lead to herbicide resistance in plants. - Photo by Fred ZwickyAfter exposing more than 70 million grain amaranth seeds to a soil-based herbicide, researchers were not a...