Agrochemicals/Pesticides: Companies in the agrochemical sector manufacture and sell pesticides used in agriculture. ETC Group uses the word ″pesticide″ as a synonym for ″agrochemical.″ In the wake of ...
The European Commission notified the World Trade Organisation (WTO) with the draft regulations regarding renewal approval of fungicide captan.According to the draft Commission Implementing Regulation,...
After the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and its negative effects on the European energy market, Holland’s TTF Gas Futures again surged 32%, the largest single day rise in six months. According ...
America’s biggest farmers are unchanging skeptics of climate change but they slowly are adopting cover crops, mostly to improve crop yields and soil health, said Purdue University. Only one in 20 grow...
An estimated 670 million people are projected to be undernourished in 2030, as noted in FAO's The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2022 report. Conflict, COVID-19, climate extremes an...
If it not enough that farmers have had to contend with extreme heat and drought this year, many farmers, particularly in the corn belt, are now facing potential frost and freeze damage. Late planting ...
The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) has published a notice of reconsideration to expand the scope of its review of fipronil, a broad-spectrum insecticide used in agric...
More than 16,000 farmers and agricultural organizations representing corn, citrus, grain sorghum, sugar cane, and other crops recently united against U.S. EPA's proposed revision to its 2020 atrazine ...
Pakistan needs to promote seed coating technology to ensure food security amid soaring demand due to high prices and climatic change impacts.Dr M Aown Sammar Raza, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Agri...
Author:Zhang Hongjun1Tao Lingmei1Liu Xue1Zhou Xuguo2Huang Xiuzhu1*1. Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, China;2. Department of Entomology, Universi...
Replacing synthetic fertilizer across Brazil’s vast soybean crop with ‘biofertilizer’ has reduced carbon emissions in the country by 430 million tons of CO2-equivalent each year, a new analysis shows....
The General Administration of Customs of China (GACC) granted authorisation to 47 Brazilian peanut companies to export to China.China is the world’s largest consumer of peanuts, importing more than US...
