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China’s high-yield seed makes for bumper Bangladeshi harvest
2021-12-03
It has been an exceptionally good harvest season for farmers in Bangladesh.A bumper harvest, beans, cauliflower, eggplant, gourds, green chili pepper, potatoes, radishes and tomatoes, in Manikganj district, northwest of capital Dhaka, has put smiles on farmers' faces, despite the...
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Thailand’s Department of Internal Trade, Ministry of Commerce reduces prices of agrochemicals
2021-12-03
The Commerce Ministry's Internal Trade Department has teamed up with importers and traders to reduce the prices of 74 agrochemical products by as much as 35% for three months, effective immediately.Speaking after meeting with 22 importing and trading companies from three associat...
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First dicamba-resistant waterhemp reported in Illinois
2021-12-03
University of Illinois weed scientists have confirmed resistance to the herbicide dicamba in a Champaign County waterhemp population. In the study, dicamba controlled 65% of the waterhemp in the field when applied at the labeled rate. And in the greenhouse, plants showed a 5-to-1...
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Vietnam intends to ban many active ingredients such as chlorothalonil, mancozeb and atrazine
2021-12-03
On November 29, Vietnam’s PPD urgently issued a draft of new regulation. Some active ingredients that have toxic effect to human health, livestock, ecosystems and the environment will be gradually removed from the permitted use list of in 2022-2023.?In the second quarter of 2022,...
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Pesticides can affect multiple generations of bees
2021-12-03
A new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis, finds that pesticides not only directly affect bee health, but effects from past exposure can carry over to future generations. The study, published in the journal?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
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16 export only registration approved in China in Oct; Find the right partner and activate your regis...
2021-12-03
In October 2021, 16 pesticide products have received export-only registration from China’s Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA), involving active ingredients terbacil, linuron, abamectin, Glyphosate-isopropylammonium, sulfentrazone, and othe...
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Biopesticides can be used to degrade aflatoxin in crops
2021-12-03
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 25% of global food crops are contaminated with different types of fungal toxins, such as aflatoxins, highly toxic and carcinogenic substances produced by certain species of the fungus?Aspergillus. New research published i...
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Kenya - Coffee, maize farmers biggest losers if pesticides banned
2021-12-03
Coffee, maize and wheat farmers could suffer up to 90 per cent in yield losses if the government bans popular pesticide ingredients as demanded by activists.An independent study by Egerton University’s Tegemeo Institute shows, for instance, that farmers will have almost nothing t...
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Cambodia - Losses ahead for farmers as fertilizer and pesticide prices continue to rise
2021-12-03
As farmers begin harvesting the last rice crops for the year and prepare their lands for planting the next year’s crops, many are expecting to see losses in profit and crop yield as the prices of fertilizers and pesticides are on the rise.Farmers tending to their crops. Koh Sante...
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The Alliance for Action on Pesticide in Nigeria (AAPN) calls to look into the gaps in pesticide regu...
2021-12-03
The Alliance for Action on Pesticide in Nigeria (AAPN) has recommended that the National Assembly (NASS) should set up an investigative committee to look into the gaps in pesticide regulation in Nigeria.The Alliance made the recommendation in a communiqué issued at the end of a s...
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