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India’s government in May moved to ban 27 pesticides, including key products like mancozeb, 2,4-D, and chlorpyrifos, after its Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare concluded the products are “likely to involve risk to human beings and animals.”The country’s agricultural in...

The use of pesticides since the last 60 years has helped Indian farmers immensely to ensure sustainability in agriculture and provide nutrition security to the nation at large. However, today the issue of sustainable environmental practice and food safety issues have forced us to...

The United States (US) is a dominant force in the global agrochemical market, either with regard to the development of novel technology, policy direction, or the expeditions in new commercial approach. In recent years, the US government’s regulations, rules and trade policy towar...

The Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency, Anvisa, on Wednesday, October 7, announced they were extending the deadline for the consumption of the remaining stocks of products based on the herbicide Paraquat that are already in the possession of farmers.?The decision was m...

A previously banned insecticide, which was approved for agricultural use last year in the United States, is harmful for bees and other beneficial insects that are crucial for agriculture, and a second pesticide in widespread use also harms these insects. That is according to a ne...

A majority of French MPs have voted to approve a controversial provision authorising the temporary reintroduction of banned neonicotinoids - a class of insecticide - to save beet farmers from ravaging aphids, small sap-sucking insects. The agriculture minister said “there is no a...

The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) has developed new biopesticides that gives hope to sustainable agriculture in Africa.The bio-pesticide products included 417 botanicals, 274 microbial and 271 microbial extracts, or fermentation products.Of the pro...

Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA), under the authority of the Pest Control Products Act, is proposing registration for the sale and use of Trinexapac-ethyl Technical and MODDUS, containing the technical grade active ingredient trinexapac-ethyl, for use on s...

The danger of locust swarms has passed for now. For five months from March, hundreds of field teams were deployed in India and Pakistan to kill locusts that swarmed in several provinces in the two countries.The situation seems to be easing now. “The desert locust situation contin...

Researchers have discovered that a fungal virus (also called a mycovirus) can convert deadly fungal pathogens into beneficial fungus in rapeseed plants. Once transformed, the fungus boosts the plant's immune system, making the plant healthier and more resistant to diseases. These...