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China’s grain production goal can be reached despite epidemic
2020-03-09
With spring planting on track and with sufficient supplies of agricultural materials such as seeds and fertilizers, China is confident it can fulfill its grain production goal despite the impact of the novel coronavirus, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on March...
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Indian pesticides bill rightly focuses on farmers
2020-03-09
The Indian government has put forward a Pesticides Management Bill. Apart from the huge compensation proposed for farmers whose crops have been destroyed by pesticides, what is there in this bill for the country’s grain providers?India is said to be the fourth-largest producer of...
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Is banning paraquat in Brazil a foregone conclusion?
2020-03-04
Paraquat, a contact herbicide, has been banned or severely restricted in over 20 countries around the world due to its toxicity to humans and no available antidote.In 2008, the Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has started the re-evaluation of 14 pesticide ac...
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Novel Coronavirus | Hubei’s higher proportion of the phosphorus chemical industry and pesticide prod...
2020-02-28
The outbreak of the new coronavirus during the Spring Festival has surely had an impact on the Chinese economy. While efforts are being made across the country to fight the epidemic, the delay of the resumption of production, the blocked logistics and the stagnated consumption br...
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Chinese locust control team in Pakistan to help fight worst locust plague in 27 years
2020-02-28
After the outbreak of the largest locust plague in Pakistan in the past 27 years, on February 24, the Chinese government sent a locust infestation control work team consisting of top Chinese locust control experts to Karachi on a field visit, to discuss locust control measures an...
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Analysis of China’s Pesticide Export to Eastern European Countries in 2019
2020-02-25
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, the national yield of chemical pesticide reached 2.083 million tons in 2018, down by 9.5% on a cumulative basis. The national yield of chemical pesticide increased to some extent in the first eleven months of 2019, registered a tota...
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India may look beyond China for DAP needs
2020-02-25
The ongoing lockdown of Hubei province, a key producer in China’s huge fertiliser industry, is spurring the biggest buyer of one of the crop-growing ingredients to look for other suppliers.India is the world’s biggest buyer of diammonium phosphate (DAP) — a type of soil nutrient ...
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With Corteva Agriscience ending its production of chlorpyrifos, how many market opportunities will m...
2020-02-20
It has been over 50 years since the development of chlorpyrifos by Dow AgroSciences, now known as Corteva Agriscience, with the product being registered in over 100 countries across the world. As a conventional broad-spectrum, high-efficiency, low-residue and relatively low-toxic...
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Bio-herbicides: Global Development Status And Product Inventory
2020-02-18
Weed control is one of the most important steps in agricultural production. The sales of herbicides ranks first among the global market share of pesticides. However, the use of a large number of chemical herbicides has caused environmental problems such as water quality degradati...
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Little progress from EU action on pesticides, say Auditors
2020-02-12
Several Member States have been late in fully transposing the directive on sustainable use of pesticides, while incentives for farmers to adopt alternative methods remain weak. In addition, the European Commission is unable to precisely monitor the effects or risks resulting from...
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