The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), setting out a path ...
Elizabeth Mukuhi is a pyrethrum farmer in Turi, Nakuru County. Elizabeth who begun growing pyrethrum in April 2020 nostalgically recalls how pyrethrum farming sustained her family when she was young. ...
China harvested its first batch of “space rice” from seeds that returned from a lunar voyage last year, with scientists hoping it could help create new plant varieties and safeguard the country’s food...
Dicamba is an herbicide used to control annual and perennial broadleaf weeds. In 2016, Monsanto first commercialized genetically engineered (GE) dicamba-tolerant (DT) cotton seeds. The genetic enginee...
China ICAMA approved 175 pesticide product registrations, including 10 products for export only, in June 2021.These include 69 herbicides, 43 insecticides, 38 fungicides, 11 sanitary insecticides, six...
Due to the impact of national policies, China’s agricultural antibiotic production, since 2016, has shown a downward trend, dropping to 269,500 tons in 2018, a decrease of 900 tons over the previous y...
Filipino farmers, including low-income households, have benefitted economically from growing genetically modified (GM) corn, according to a new study.The study, published in the International Journal ...
Agricultural sector grew 4.1%, as a result of enhanced work in the cultivation of sugarcane, bananas, beans and tobacco, among other crops, according to the Monthly Index of Economic Activity (IMAE) p...
A picoxystrobin microcapsule SC filed by a Chinese company was approved for registration by China's Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA). The registration was gr...
Globally, India is the fourth largest producer of agrochemicals after the U.S., Japan, and China and has emerged as the 13th largest exporter of pesticides. It is a major hub of generic pesticides pro...
Last week, we participated in the CAC exhibition. The number of people affected by the epidemic was not as many as in previous years, but there were still many customers arriving at the site. We hope ...