In a joint statement, President Donald Trump and President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping announced a 100-day action plan under the framework of the U.S.-China Comprehensive Economic Dialogue — a result of the meeting at Mar-a-Lago.According to the U.S. Department o...

Large harvests of Chinese rice planted in Africa have raised hopes on the continent of greater grain yields to combat food shortages, a Chinese scientist has said."Trial plantings of quality Chinese crop varieties in Africa have shown promising results," Wang Qingfeng, director o...

By Think Real - On 24th March, 2017, with the theme "Insecticide Development under the Zero Growth of Pesticide Consumption Policy", the second Insecticide Development and Promotion Exchange Meeting was held in Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province and about 300 people from agricultural...

China’s new Regulations on Pesticide Control will come into force on June 1 this year.According to the provisions, the use of pesticide must strictly observe the range of application as marked on the label and shall not go beyond the scope of use as stipulated.However, due to the...

As spring plowing comes to an end in China, Wei Shilian is expecting a good harvest.A resident of Xingan County, a big rice production area in east China's Jiangxi Province, Wei planted more than 140 hectares of paddy rice this year, 90 percent of which is high-quality rice. Jian...

According to the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS), China produced 330,237 tons of pesticide in March 2017, down regulated 3.3% compared to the same period last year. For the three major categories, insecticide and fungicide production increased 1.8% and 21% to 57,467 ...

A man operates a drone to carry out spraying operations over a wheat field in Xinghua, East China's Jiangsu province, April 30, 2017.The authorities are using drones to spray pesticide on wheat fields in Xinghua, East China's Jiangsu province, as part of this year's diseases and ...

In 1974 at the World Food Summit, food security was defined as “availability at all times of adequate world food supplies of basic foodstuffs to sustain a steady expansion of food consumption and to offset fluctuations in production and prices”. Thirty years from now, in 2050, ad...

On April 19, an executive meeting of the State Council was held and presided over by Premier Li Keqiang, where a decision was made to adopt further tax reduction measures to cut costs and promote growth in the real economy. At the meeting, as a follow up to the Yuan200 billion ta...

In 2015, the global agricultural chemical market was estimated to be worth $214 billion. By 2020, this market is projected to grow to $250 billion due to the increasing need for agrochemicals.1 However, agrochemicals can accumulate in the environment, polluting rivers and poisoni...