Farmers in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, China's top grain producer, will be prohibited from growing Genetically Modified(GM) crops, according to a provincial regulation passed on Friday.The regulation will become effective on May 1, 2017.Growing of GM corn, rice and s...

Unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous tractors and other technologies will continue to emerge as producers meet world food needs in the near and distant future, according to experts.Those experts believe technology will continue to emerge and make possible giant leaps throughout t...

China has made a series of new world records in hybrid rice output, central China's Hunan provincial government announced at a press conference Thursday.The records were set by Yuan Longping, "father of hybrid rice".Yuan's team have managed 42 hybrid rice test fields in 16 provin...

By Think Real - On 4 Nov., 2016, the Vice Head of the Planting Industry Department, the Ministry of Agriculture of China (MOA) said on the 2016 Pesticide Distribution Situation Analysis and Experience Exchange Meeting that the current national pesticide capacity exceeds 3 million...

A great breakthrough in pyrimidinamine fungicides development was recently achieved by the research team led by Liu Changling of the Pesticide Research Section of Shenyang Research Institute of Chemical Industry (now, Shenyang Sinochem Agrochemical R&D Co. Ltd.). The achievement ...

Since 2011, Chinese pesticide companies have speeded up the establishment of FAO/WHO Specifications for Pesticides. To date, 10 product specification applications from 5 Chinese companies have been approved by FAO/WHO Joint Meeting on Pesticide Speci-fications (JMPS). For detaile...

Professor Yang Guangfu, the Assistant to President, Central China Normal University, introduced Chinese researchers’ independent innovation of five novel compounds, which are now under industrialization, in cooperation with industry players, at the recently held 11th Crop Protect...

China will reduce the area planted with corn and lift soybean acreage in the next five years, said the country's cabinet last Thursday, reiterating goals outlined earlier this year to adjust the nation's crop structure to better meet demand. China has encouraged farmers to expand...

China aims to achieve "marked progress" in agricultural modernization by 2020, according to a five-year plan released by the State Council Thursday.The country will strive to ensure food security, improve the quality and efficiency of farm produce supply, and enhance the sector's...

By Think Real - The first batch of pesticide samples inspected by the MOA include those for vegetables, fruit trees, tea trees, wheat, corn, cotton, soybeans and so on, involving 28 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and abroad. Totally 1,323 products were in the sa...