Global leaders already agree that to address food insecurity, we must align agricultural methods and use technology to transform farming into an innovative, forward-looking sector.Author: Adrian Percy, head of Research & Development at Bayer Crop Science.It’s no secret – farming ...

BRICS Ministers of Agriculture pose for photo at the 7th Meeting of BRICS Ministers of Agriculture and Agrarian Development in Nanjing, China on 16 June 2017. BRICS Ministers of Agriculture and Heads of Delegations of international organizations pose for photo at the 7th Meeting ...

According to China Pesticide Registration Watch, 199 products were granted registration from Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA) in May, 2017. These registration includes 81 herbicide , 48 fungicides, 48 insecticides, 11 plant growth regula...

The Chinese pesticide industry has, in general, appeared to pick up since 2016. However, agrochemical enterprises still face many challenges with policy, environmental and market issues. This paper addresses the general development of Chinese agriculture as well as future trends ...

China's Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) representative office in China have released a planning framework for agriculture cooperation in the 2016-2020 period.The framework outlines four major fields for cooperation: jointly pushing...

The ongoing misuse of agricultural material in China's agriculture has resulted in serious soil damage. So much so that the area contaminated by agriculture is now larger than that contaminated by industry. Land use is confronted with new challenges, where soil conditioner, which...

China’s manufacturers are mainly exporting pesticides technical in international markets, due to the tax rebate gap between those and formulations. This issue is a long-time thorn in the eyes of China’s industry, lowering motivation for value-added processing of technical into fo...

On May 17, the 8th Biopesticide Development and Application Exchange Conference was held in Qingdao, as sponsored by the China Association of Pesticide Development and Application (CAPDA) and co-sponsored by Qingdao Russell IPM Biotech Ltd.At the conference, China’s biopesticide ...

At the recently held Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing, the issue of “Vision and Action on Jointly Promoting Agricultural Cooperation on the Belt and Road” was publicized jointly by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture, the National Development and Refor...

According to the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS), in April 2017, China produced 333,131 tons of pesticide, down regulated 2.05% compared to the same period last year. This is also the second consecutive month that the domestic pesticide production experienced decline...