The Act No. 32 of the Department of Plant Protection and Agricultural Defense Secretariat Agricultural Inputs, published on July 23, 2021, in the Official Gazette, reveals a record 51 formulated pesti...
Recently, a research team of the College of Plant Protection of Southwest University, China, discovered a new miticidal substance with a very high miticidal activity – scoparone, which exists in the t...
“The Armyworm is inside the maize when it starts producing, and if the maize is supposed to give you a very big yield, it will not come out. It has caused a lot of damage in my farm; sometimes, you lo...
Pest attack: Maize growers seek relief from Punjab GovtComplaining about damage to maize crop due to a pest attack, a large number of farmers have sought suitable compensation from the state governmen...
Over the last decade, biological products have become one of the fastest growing segments in the agriculture industry due to increased stringent regulations and farmers’ needs for sustainable pest-res...
Drones are a reality in the cultivation of Brazilian crops and have been a promising tool for spraying agrochemicals.According to agronomist Ulisses Antuniassi, sugarcane is the agricultural crop that...
Glyphosate, paraquat, glufosinate and diquat are the four major non-selective herbicides, with the first three being more popular than diquat for many years, having squeezed its market share at variou...
According to a publication in the Official Gazette on 19th August, the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture (MAPA) approved, for industrial use, another 48 pesticides, which could be used as raw material...
The Chinese State Council, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the National Bureau of Statistics jointly published, on August 26, the Third National Land Survey Data, revealing China’s cultivated la...
A finding officially released today highlights a key challenge with regional food production – chiefly that a significant number of growers in Southeast Asia's largest agricultural-producing countries...
During the next 30 years, the United Nations estimates that the global population will grow by 2 billion people to nearly 10 billion. To meet this demand, agriculture must wrest larger yields from a s...
The ban on the use and sale of 2,4-D in its “butyl and isobutyl ester” formulation, which has been in force since July 24, is already being inspected in Argentina.The measure was implemented by Senasa...
