Argentina consumes 230 million liters of herbicides and 350 million liters of other agrochemicals per year, according to a recently released report by the Argentine INTA (National Institute of Agricul...
The price of glyphosate lost some 30% of its value in the Argentine market, according to the input report published by the consulting agency Az Group, from Buenos Aires.The herbicide started the year ...
India has been at the forefront of Chemicals/ Agrochemicals space over the past 7-8 years, since the tightening of environmental regulations in China (effective 2015) and subsequent fallout on the glo...
The Sri Lankan government imposed a ban on the import and use of conventional agricultural chemicals (fertilizers and pesticides) in April 2021. The ban was followed by the active promotion of using o...
On the day we were going to interview Mr. Pradip Dave, President of Pesticides Manufacturers & Formulators Association of India (PMFAI), I saw the news which said that India surpasses the UK as the wo...
The Union Agriculture Ministry has restricted the use of glyphosate, a widely used herbicide. This comes even as the Supreme Court on November 10 is about to take up a plea seeking a ban on all herbic...
Brazil is a world reference for recycling pesticide packaging – 94% of packaging placed on the market is recycled, transformed again into the same product or incinerated at an appropriate place.″By wa...
The lack of rains hampered the development of soybeans and corn, mainly in the Southern region and in Mato Grosso do Sul, in the 2021/2022 harvest, according to the results of the production cost surv...
China and Brazil have agreed to terms on phytosanitary standards for Brazilian corn to be exported to China. While the final agreement was announced a few months ago, the process was set in motion in ...
Sri Lanka has spent a record 9.6 billion rupees for maize imports this year, government data showed, amid a looming shortage of the grains for animal feed industry after the government’s agrochemicals...
India aims to end imports of urea from 2025 as the nation boosts its local production capacity with the commissioning of new plants, fertilisers minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Wednesday.India, the...
Soil infertility is one of the pressing challenges in the field of agriculture worldwide. In effect, the demand for biostimulants has increased substantially in recent years. Biostimulants are product...
