Sri Lanka has put glyphosate, a widely used weedicide, back on a banned list under the country’s import control law, in a gazette issued on November 30.In 2017 glyphosate was named as a substance requ...
It has been an exceptionally good harvest season for farmers in Bangladesh.A bumper harvest, beans, cauliflower, eggplant, gourds, green chili pepper, potatoes, radishes and tomatoes, in Manikganj dis...
The Commerce Ministry's Internal Trade Department has teamed up with importers and traders to reduce the prices of 74 agrochemical products by as much as 35% for three months, effective immediately.Sp...
University of Illinois weed scientists have confirmed resistance to the herbicide dicamba in a Champaign County waterhemp population. In the study, dicamba controlled 65% of the waterhemp in the field...
On November 29, Vietnam’s PPD urgently issued a draft of new regulation. Some active ingredients that have toxic effect to human health, livestock, ecosystems and the environment will be gradually rem...
A new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis, finds that pesticides not only directly affect bee health, but effects from past exposure can carry over to future generations. The...
In October 2021, 16 pesticide products have received export-only registration from China’s Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA), involving active ingredients ter...
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 25% of global food crops are contaminated with different types of fungal toxins, such as aflatoxins, highly toxic and carcinogenic substances...
Coffee, maize and wheat farmers could suffer up to 90 per cent in yield losses if the government bans popular pesticide ingredients as demanded by activists.An independent study by Egerton University’...
As farmers begin harvesting the last rice crops for the year and prepare their lands for planting the next year’s crops, many are expecting to see losses in profit and crop yield as the prices of fert...
The Alliance for Action on Pesticide in Nigeria (AAPN) has recommended that the National Assembly (NASS) should set up an investigative committee to look into the gaps in pesticide regulation in Niger...
At present, China and India are the world’s main producers of pesticide technical and intermediates. From 2017, China’s pesticide technical production began to decline, but the prices of pesticide tec...
