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Glyphosate to gain temporarily one year approval in EU without support of qualified majority of Memb...
2022-11-18
EU member states once again blocked the Commission’s proposal to extend the marketing authorisation of the herbicide glyphosate for another year, but the EU executive is set to still approve an interim renewal before mid-December, according to the report of?EURACTIV.com.On Tuesda...
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Argentina consumes 230 million liters of herbicides per year, says INTA
2022-11-18
Argentina consumes 230 million liters of herbicides and 350 million liters of other agrochemicals per year, according to a recently released?report?by the Argentine INTA (National Institute of Agricultural Technology).″Argentine agriculture cannot completely dispense with agroche...
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Glyphosate prices drop 30% in Argentina
2022-11-18
The price of glyphosate lost some 30% of its value in the Argentine market, according to the?input report?published by the consulting agency Az Group, from Buenos Aires.The herbicide started the year with a price of US$13.2 per liter, falling to $9.9/L today. According to the Az ...
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India Chemicals/ Agrochemicals – Inevitable Growth Opportunity
2022-11-18
India has been at the forefront of Chemicals/ Agrochemicals space over the past 7-8 years, since the tightening of environmental regulations in China (effective 2015) and subsequent fallout on the global chemicals supply chain. Backed by strong chemistry skills and favourable bus...
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Impacts of the 2021 ban on conventional pesticides and fertilizers in Sri Lanka
2022-11-11
The Sri Lankan government imposed a ban on the import and use of conventional agricultural chemicals (fertilizers and pesticides) in April 2021. The ban was followed by the active promotion of using organic inputs in farmlands throughout the country. This contributed to a reducti...
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India’s Agrochemical Industry Poised For Greater Success in the Economic Upswing
2022-11-11
On the day we were going to interview Mr. Pradip Dave, President of Pesticides Manufacturers & Formulators Association of India (PMFAI), I saw the news which said that India surpasses the UK as the world's 5th largest economy based on IMF data and may become the world’s third-lar...
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Why India Centre has restricted use of glyphosate in demand among farmers
2022-11-11
The Union Agriculture Ministry has restricted the use of glyphosate, a widely used herbicide. This comes even as the Supreme Court on November 10 is about to take up a plea seeking a ban on all herbicide-tolerant crops, including transgenic hybrid mustard and cotton.What is glyph...
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Brazil recycles 94% of crop protection packaging on the market
2022-11-11
Brazil is a world reference for recycling?pesticide?packaging?– 94% of packaging placed on the market is recycled, transformed again into the same product or incinerated at an appropriate place.″By way of comparison, in 1999, 50% of?empty crop protection packages?were?donated or ...
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Drought impacted Brazil soybean and corn productivity in 2021/22 harvest: CNA
2022-11-11
The lack of rains hampered the development of soybeans and corn, mainly in the Southern region and in Mato Grosso do Sul, in the 2021/2022 harvest, according to the results of the production cost surveys of the Campo Futuro Project.Data from the production chain of cereals, fiber...
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Brazilian corn exports to China to begin by end of 2022
2022-11-11
China and Brazil have agreed to terms on phytosanitary standards for Brazilian corn to be exported to China. While the final agreement was announced a few months ago, the process was set in motion in 2014, but very little Brazilian corn moved to China due to the complex inspectio...
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