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...

Results of a new animal study into possible health risks of the weedkiller glyphosate will be published in time to inform a key EU re-licensing vote due by the end of 2017, according to the researcher leading the trial.A row over possible effects of glyphosate – an ingredient in ...

With stringent environmental regulation being implemented in China from the second half of 2016, large number of factories have been either shut down or their production capacity has been restricted, which has led to a sharp rise in the prices of raw materials and intermediates, ...

The new Regulations on the Control of Agricultural Chemicals were officially issued on April 1 and will be implemented since June 1, 2017. The new Regulations will further strengthen the management of agricultural chemicals and provide a solid legal basis for guaranteeing the qua...

Producers cannot control fusarium head blight with fungicides alone, say spokespeople for Bayer CropScience and BASF.
Cereal growers in Western Canada should be using a diverse array of tactics to keep fusarium in check because a single strategy will not work.
“Growers need to im...