The Member of the European Parliament leading the revision of the EU’s pesticide framework is pushing for more ambition both in targets and timelines for EU-wide pesticide cuts, according to a draft r...
The area under organic farming in the European Union (EU) has increased by 41% within five years reaching 14.8 million hectares in 2020, according to a report published by the European Commission. EU ...
China's top agricultural official has urged local authorities to strengthen grainfield management and shore up planting areas of major oil crops in the runup to the annual springtime planting season, ...
Crop Care Federation of India (CCFI) the largest manufacturers and exporters of agrochemicals while appreciating the proposed changes in budget have reiterated that the present GST of 18% on pesticide...
In recent years, the Brazilian agricultural market has registered an increase in demand for products of biological origin for crops, positioning itself as the primary market in Latin America for this ...
The agrochemical industry was pressing the central government to increase the customs duty on the import of pesticide formulations as it was detrimental to the manufacturers in India. The Pesticides M...
Phytophagous stink bugs are currently the most important pests in the soy-corn production system, an article by Germison Tomquelski and Paulo Chagas, researchers from the consultancy Desafios Agro, ha...
Crop diseases cause severe food and economic losses around the global, and these losses are consequential for farmers and consumers alike. Climate change is amplifying these issues by increasing plant...
Without phosphorus food cannot be produced, since all plants and animals need it to grow. Put simply: if there is no phosphorus, there is no life. As such, phosphorus-based fertilisers – it is the "P"...
We are more in this world than just ourselves. We all have chemical and microbial signatures that influence our well-being in one way or another. In medicine, the use of probiotics rather than antibio...
Biologically-based pesticides and bioinoculants accounted for sales worth BRL2.905 billion (US$560 million) in Brazil in the 2021-22 harvest, according to the FarmTrak survey conducted by consultancy ...
Data provided by the government in the Parliament indicates that the consumption of Chemical Pesticides has not reduced in the country with the consumption averaging around 60,000 MT in the last nine ...
