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China, UN agency seek cooperation on agriculture
2017-06-07
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...
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China’s soil conditioner market potential pegged at $10 billion,but suffering from scarcity of produ...
2017-06-02
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...
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China's pesticide formulation exports about to boom backed by increasing tax rebates
2017-05-25
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...
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Chinese biopesticide development status and export situation analysis
2017-05-23
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 ...
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Chinese government publicizes agricultural cooperation plan at Belt and Road Forum in Beijing
2017-05-19
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...
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China’s pesticide production continued to decline in April by 2.05%
2017-05-19
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...
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China to evaluate eight pending biotechnology product applications
2017-05-16
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...
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Chinese rice trials promise solution to African food shortages
2017-05-16
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...
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China's consumption of insecticide declining
2017-05-12
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...
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China experiencing shortage of minor crop pesticides
2017-05-11
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...