As part of a broad-based initiative to address the plant protection needs of the Eastern Africa nations, a practical training programme on Pest Risk Analysis (PRA) was delivered to experts drawn from ...
Currently, Ukraine is at the final stage of approval of the maximum permissible levels for the residuals of chlorpyrifos and chlorpyrifos-methyl in agricultural products and foodstuff at the level of ...
In view of the movement of locusts in southwest Iran, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has said that a few small groups of immature adult locusts could form and move e...
Plenty of predators prepare to pounce on corn and soybean seeds once they’re planted into a sea of soil.Besides diseases, subterranean insects such as wireworms and white grubs can ravage corn seed an...
Switzerland could become the first European country to ban artificial pesticides in a June 13 referendum which backers of the initiative hope will trigger similar prohibitions elsewhere.Globally, only...
According to AIREA, India exported Rs 29,859 crore worth of Basmati rice in 2020-21, of which the western Asian nations accounted for Rs 22,849 crore. Basmati exports to the EU have declined from 397,...
The Institute of Agricultural Biotechnology (INBIO) held a press conference to present its report on the area sown for soybeans, corn and rice during the 2020-2021 agricultural season in the Eastern r...
The stink bugs, characterized by the brown and green-bellied stink bugs, and the whitefly are stated by researchers to be the main pests of soybeans today and can cause losses of more than 50% in prod...
The first Geo-Zone Coordination Meeting for the Implementation of the FAO Global Action on Fall Armyworm (FAW) Control in South Asia was hosted by the FAO Asia-Pacific Regional Office recently. Repres...
A total of 76% of soybean exports registered during the first quarter of this year were sent to Argentina, which has become the main market for Paraguay’s production, according to the Foreign Trade Re...
A new fungus strain could provide a chemical-free method for eradicating mites that kill honey bees, according to a study published this month in Scientific Reports.A team led by Washington State Univ...
According to a notification on 10th May, China Yunnan power grid initiated planned power cuts on prime electricity customers by 10% to 30%, due to a shortage of produced power resulting from the inade...
