Recently, AgroPages learned from pesticide exporters that the casual inspection on hazardous chemicals for export conducted by Chinese Customs authority has substantially escalated, where frequency of...
In the medium term, guaranteeing the delivery of fertilizers by both the government and Russian companies will offer security for maintaining good productivity during future Brazilian harvests. This i...
Throughout the 20th century, the use of chemical pesticides was widely adopted in agriculture to control insect pests, weeds, and plant diseases. However, many of these pesticides are now known to be ...
Karl Dirks, who farms 1,000 acres in Mount Joy, Pa., has been hearing about the sky-high prices of glyphosate and glufosinate, but he isn’t panicking about it yet.“I think it's going to fix itself,” h...
When ICI launched paraquat in 1962, it never expected to encounter ups and downs, such as the situation when the excellent non-selective broad-spectrum herbicide could fall from its stature as the wor...
China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MOA) on Tuesday announced the top seed resources detected in its largest-ever agricultural germplasm resources census, as the country strives to achi...
An Extraordinary Gazette notification has been issued by the Registrar of Pesticides revoking the Gazette issued in 2014 prohibiting the use and sale of several pesticides including Glyphosate.Issued ...
From the key active ingredients to the final pesticide product, particle size is known to play a critical role in the residual period, the biological activity, and the stability properties of pesticid...
Increased fertilizer subsidies are required if farmers are to deal with higher global prices for the farm input, agriculture experts said, after a key Senator called for immediate government intervent...
Glyphosate is the most commonly used pesticide in the world, and is widely used in agriculture. While glyphosate has been deemed ‘bee-safe’ by regulators, some emerging evidence studies suggest that i...
EFSA has completed its assessments of emergency authorisations granted by 11 EU Member States for the use of neonicotinoid-based insecticides on sugar beet in 2020 and 2021.The assessments cover 17 em...
In the face of climate change, the agriculture industry is taking two complementary approaches toward decarbonization: reducing emissions and pulling carbon out of the atmosphere to store it in the so...
