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EU publishes short-term agriculture outlook
2020-07-15
Many uncertainties remain around the scale of the impact of the coronavirus crisis and the economic recovery. Nonetheless the food supply chain has proven resilient throughout the crisis. With lockdown measures being progressively lifted all over Europe, demand in particular for ...
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UN experts call on rich countries to end export of banned pesticides
2020-07-13
Three dozen United Nations human rights experts recently called on wealthy countries to end the “deplorable” practice of exporting banned toxic chemicals and pesticides to poorer nations that lack “the capacity to control the risks”.A statement issued by UN special rapporteur on ...
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India government plans to restrict use of glyphosate herbicide
2020-07-10
The government is planning or restrict use of?glyphosate?, a popular herbicide used to control weeds in tea plantations – a proposal that has upset industry.The agriculture ministry, in a draft notification, has restricted the use of glyphosate only through Pest Control Operators...
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The impact of Covid-19 on agricultural sector in India
2020-07-10
Agriculture remains a central pillar of the Indian economy. The sector serves the food consumption needs of the whole country, while also placing among the top exporters of agricultural produce in the world. The sector has been facing its share of challenges in recent years, but ...
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What is the grape pesticide registration status in China?
2020-07-09
In recent years, China's grape planting area and production output have continued to grow. Up to end of 2016, China's total grape planting area reached 809,600 hectares which is only next to Spain, ranking second in the world while production output reached 13.745 million tons, r...
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Dry rice cultivated from 7,000-year-old "weed" may mitigate global food crisis
2020-07-08
A 7,000-year-old crop variety discovered in China has been turned into commercial crop that can be planted in desert, which has the potential to help solve food crisis in regions and countries with a dry climate.?Dry rice, also known as upland rice, has attracted attention of som...
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Is India headed towards a locust plague
2020-07-08
The global upsurge of locusts is on the brink of becoming a plague, aided by unusually favourable weather for three years and the international community’s failure to curb their growth.?Swarms of locusts took Delhi and the National Capital Region by suprise on June 27, 2020, the ...
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Control of Desert Locusts
2020-07-08
The desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) is a species of locust, a periodically swarming, short-horned grasshopper in the family Acrididae. The locusts with a lifespan of 3-5 months, prefer to lay eggs in damp soil. They breed at a greater scale, laying as many as 1,000 eggs per...
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Nufarm chemical closures spark calls to safeguard locally made ag inputs
2020-07-07
Farmers are growing increasingly nervous about the long-term reliability of chemical supplies and want Canberra to adopt an industry strategy encouraging minimum production capacity, similar to the national fuel reserve policy.Concerns have hit a new peak with big crop chemical p...
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Smallholder farming in Africa and the opportunities for digital enablement
2020-07-07
On the eve of the United Nations’ Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises day, the importance of SMEs has never been more critical to the economic and social fabric of African nations.The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought unprecedented damage upon the economies of nations across th...
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