The import of agrochemicals in Costa Rica increased by 37% during the last five years, indicates the State of the Nation 2020 report.While in 2015, the country imported 13.1 million kilograms (kg) of ...
Imidacloprid is an insecticide used against pests affecting cotton, sugar cane and citrus crops. The product is used mainly during the wettest period, with its highest demand being at the start of the...
The use of a class of insecticides known as neonicotinoids has been restricted in Switzerland since 2018.Neonicotinoids are a class of neuro-active insecticides chemically similar to nicotine develope...
Seed treatments aim to protect germinating crops from diseases. In collaboration with the agricultural cooperative fenaco, Agroscope examined thermal methods using steam and warm water, among others, ...
The agrochemical sector's revenue is likely to grow 12-14 per cent in the ongoing financial year due to a sharp recovery in offtake from domestic agriculture sector and continuing healthy exports, acc...
There were 676 petrochemical-dominant industrial parks in China as of 2018, according to statistics released by the Chemical Industrial Park Working Committee of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry ...
While the entire world is grappling with the Covid-19 calamity, some business segments have been largely unaffected and this calamity has turned into an opportunity for them. While globally, the Covid...
The American Soybean Assn. (ASA) and the Plains Cotton Growers have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's registration of the herbicide dicamba for use on soybean and cott...
About MetamifopMetamifop is an herbicide jointly developed by Farm Hannong and the Korea Institute of Chemical Technology. It can be used to control rice and lawn weeds with excellent weeding effect a...
In a new study, researchers from the University of Bern developed an experimental approach that may be used to improve a wide range of organisms that rely on microbial symbionts to control insect pest...
Rice is the largest food source in China and 65% of the population survive on it. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, in 2019, the rice plantations in China measured 29.694 million hectare...
About Flubendiamide, Mandipropamid, MetofluthrinFlubendiamideFlubendiamide is a diamides insecticide discovered by Nihon Nohyaku Co., Ltd. in 1998 and co-developed with Bayer in 2001, which acts on th...
