Early last year, Ugandan experts forecast 40-50% adoption of the new bioengineered potato 3R Victoria in 15 years’ time. Field trials showed significantly higher yields without the use of fungicide. T...
A survey that maps the biological and economic aspects of the use of 2,4-D-based herbicides in agriculture in Brazil indicates that replacing them with other alternatives would represent an additional...
Drones could soon be adopted as essential tools for various agricultural tasks; however, with respect to their use in farm management, research is still lacking. To address this issue, researchers in ...
Act No. 19 of the Department of Plant Protection and Agricultural Defense Secretariat Agricultural Inputs, published on April 13th, in the Official Gazette, announced the 39 generic crop protection pr...
In a world-first breakthrough for research into herbicide resistance, a team of Australian and international scientists has discovered a new glyphosate resistance mechanism in plants that has similari...
According to China Pesticide Registration Watch, 183 product registrations from 134 companies were approved by the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA) in March,...
According to ‘2019–2020 Annual Report’ published recently by the Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA), over the 10-year period between 2009 and 2019, the increase of the number of registe...
According to ‘2019–2020 Annual Report’ published recently by the Canadian Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA), in 2019–2020, 12 new active ingredients (the substance with the pesticidal effect) w...
Lack of rain in East Africa is usually cause for major concern, but this year, delayed spring rains could be beneficial.The Horn of Africa has been experiencing its worst desert locust crisis in more ...
A new paper from Chinese scientists spells out the future of agricultural gene editing. In spite of claims from GMO promoters that gene editing will save us from climate change and reduce pesticide us...
1. Introduction Decades of adverse agricultural practices and chemical pesticide use have depleted the supply of natural beneficials. Beneficials are organisms that benefit the growth of crops and inc...
Amid the arduous debates about the use and abuse of agrochemicals in agricultural production in the country, the Argentina Agrifood Health and Quality Service (SENASA) has decided to ban chlorpyrifos,...
