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FAO supports the use of biopesticides against locusts in Central Asia and Caucasus
2023-05-05
Every year, locust infestations threaten Central Asian countries. Devouring crops and rangelands, they jeopardize the food security of thousands of people for which agriculture is the only source of income. For more than half a century, chemical pesticides have been the most rapi...
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U.S. ?EPA proposes to register new uses of pesticide chlormequat chloride
2023-05-05
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released for public comment its proposed decision to register the first food uses of the pesticide chlormequat chloride to provide farmers with an additional tool to help increase crop yield. Before registering these uses, EPA wi...
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USA - Tight margins and potential for disease pressure warrant fungicides to protect crop yields
2023-05-05
This season, growers once again face a battle with high input prices and market volatility that puts their profitability at risk. A cool, wet spring and continuing wet weather patterns across much of the country threaten to increase the risk of disease in row crops. As growers pr...
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Indian Government clears 24 out of 27 generic pesticides after data evaluation by expert technical c...
2023-04-28
The Central Government after considering the report of the Expert Committee and after consultation with the Registration Committee concluded that the use of three pesticides Dicofol, Dinocap, and Methomyl be discontinued due to the non-availability of data on safety and eff...
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France reverses course on banning insecticide to allow grain exports to North Africa
2023-04-28
France will continue to export grain to countries in North Africa after the food safety watchdog agreed to roll back a planned ban of phosphine, an insecticide that certain countries require to be used to treat grain before it is offloaded. The agency also announced a ban on a po...
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Neonicotinoid resistance in green peach aphids: a setback for seed treatments
2023-04-28
Aphids are a priority pest to manage for most Australian producers, and new research from Cesar Australia investigating the implications of neonicotinoid resistance in the green peach aphid (Myzus persicae) could change how and when these chemical treatments are best used in broa...
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Agrochemicals for sugarcane 2022 grow 33% in Brazil
2023-04-28
Sugarcane contributed US$1.67 billion in agrochemicals in the 2022 (fiscal year) in Brazil, Kynetec consultancy revealed to AgroPages.Growth regulators and other products ?? adjuvants, pH reducers, inoculants, and oils, mainly ?? accounted for 4% of the market, totaling $79 milli...
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Breakthrough in fight against devastating potato disease
2023-04-28
Potato is the third most important food crop in the world after rice and wheat in terms of human consumption. But potato world production is threatened by potato late blight, one of the most devastating potato diseases which causes globally 3-10 billion euros in yield loss and ma...
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Dialogue with Kenyan agrochemical company: East Africa facing worst drought in modern history, crops...
2023-04-28
Since late 2020, there has been a severe drought in East Africa. In large areas of Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya, there have been four consecutively seasons with insufficient rainfall, resulting in the worst drought in modern history. The meteorological drought has led to the loss ...
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Global rice shortage is set to be the biggest in 20 years
2023-04-21
From China to the U.S. to the European Union, rice production is falling and driving up prices for more than 3.5 billion people across the globe, particularly in Asia-Pacific – which consumes 90% of the world’s rice. The global rice market is set to log its largest shortfall in t...
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