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Off-Patent Product Registration Watch in China: Flubendiamide, Mandipropamid, Metofluthrin
2020-11-04
About Flubendiamide, Mandipropamid, MetofluthrinFlubendiamideFlubendiamide is a diamides insecticide discovered by Nihon Nohyaku Co., Ltd. in 1998 and co-developed with Bayer in 2001, which acts on the ichonidine receptor of insects. The main market of flubendiamide is in South A...
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Lawsuit challenges US EPA reapproval of endocrine-disrupting pesticide atrazine
2020-11-04
Public-interest groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently over its decision to reapprove atrazine, an endocrine-disrupting herbicide banned across much of the world.Atrazine castrates frogs, impairs fish reproduction and is linked to birth defects and cancer i...
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US EPA announces 2020 dicamba registration decision
2020-10-28
At the Cromley Farm, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced that EPA is approving new five-year registrations for two dicamba products and extending the registration of an additional dicamba product. All three registrations include new c...
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How pesticides are playing really important role in Indian agriculture?
2020-10-26
Looking at the Pesticides Industry of India, since the last 60 years, use of pesticides has greatly helped Indian farmers for agriculture and providing nutrition security to the country. According to the research reports, the Indian Pesticides market in 2019 stood at Rs 214 Billi...
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Insights into status quo, development trends of China’s pesticide industry: Focus on I&E trade, indu...
2020-10-26
Since the reform and re-opening of China, its pesticide industry has kept pace with the process of agricultural modernization. Major achievements have made the country a major international producer and exporter of pesticides. However, there are still many problems facing the ind...
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China’s MARA formally promulgates Catalogue of Class 1 Crop Pests and Diseases
2020-10-26
On 15 September, 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China (MARA) issued the No. 333 Document of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, promulgating the Catalogue of Class 1 Crop Pests and Diseases (the Catalogue) to strengthen ...
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Indian agricultural reform: What to make of the new farm Bills
2020-10-26
India is facing massive twin crises in health and the economy. As in the past, the economic crisis has spurred the introduction of politically difficult reforms, this time in agriculture. Agriculture in India remains an important source of livelihoods, and farmers’ constituencies...
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How digital farmers of China can grow a post-COVID-19 future
2020-10-26
At the beginning of 2020, China’s central government announced plans to pilot a “digital village”. It’s the country’s latest push towards a “Digital China” since the information consumption policy of 2013, which promotes the use of information technology to stimulate more domesti...
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Pesticides to assume pivotal function of crop protection as India endeavors to help horticulture
2020-10-22
The utilization of pesticides since the last few decades has helped Indian farmers massively to guarantee supportability in agribusiness and give sustenance security to the country. Nonetheless, today the issue of manageable ecological practice and safety issues for food have con...
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Regulations on agrochemical adjuvant in Latin America
2020-10-22
Until 2017, adjuvants in Brazil were regulated by the same legislation as agrochemicals (Law 7,802 regulated by Decree 4,074) and, therefore, were subject to the same registration process. Scientific researcher Hamilton Ramos (Coordinator of the Agronomic Institute, IAC), explain...
