A multi-channel approach to extension reaps greater benefits for smallholder farmers fighting the fall armyworm pest in Eastern Rwanda according to new CABI-led research published in the journal Food ...
According to Phillips McDougall and KLEFFMANN , global sales of glufosinate rose from $450 million in 2012 to $1.050 billion in 2020, becoming the fastest growing non-selective herbicide. These figure...
The Brazilian Secretary of Agricultural Defense has already presented the protocol of phytosanitary requirements for the emergency export of soybean meal from Brazil to China.According to the document...
Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe has lifted a ban on glyphosate, a weed killer giving into a long standing request of the island’s tea industry.In a gazette notice issued under the hand of Pre...
Farmers in Argentine are preparing to start planning their 2022/23 crops, but they are doing so under a dark cloud of economic uncertainty. Inflation is currently running at approximately 70%, but it ...
Global wheat consumption is headed for its biggest annual decline in decades as record inflation forces consumers and companies to use less and replace the grain with cheaper alternatives, amid growin...
The import tax on most popular herbicide in Brazil, glyphosate, as well as on its monoisopropylamine salt were reduced from 9.6% to 3.8% for a period of one year, effectively from 5th August, 2022.The...
Poor rainfall in major rice-growing regions of India has triggered fears of export restrictions on rice, too, after wheat and sugar.Looking to control domestic prices, India had in May banned wheat an...
On Monday, the U.S. EPA submitted a petition to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals requesting a partial rehearing of the three-judge panel’s June 17 ruling on the glyphosate interim decision. In that ...
In 2020, pest insects and spider mites in nine greenhouse horticultural crops were controlled biologically on 95 percent of the acreage, for example by parasitic wasps or predatory mites. In 2016, thi...
University of Sydney scientists are developing insecticides that target two major pests of honey bees but are completely safe for the bees and other animals.Today, on World Bee Day, and beyond, they p...
In February, the State Council announced that a survey of China’s soil would be carried out, 40 years after the last one. It will take almost four years to complete, with preparatory works and trials ...
