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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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Portugal had greatest reduction in agrochemicals in the European Union
2020-07-03
Portugal a member state of the European Union (EU) has recorded the greatest reduction in sales and use of agrochemicals, between 2011 and 2018, registering a drop of 43%.?This data was released by Eurostat, the EU's statistical service, which published a EU fact sheet on the con...
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India deploys helicopters, 12 drones to spray insecticides and monitor swarms after nine states repo...
2020-07-03
India on Tuesday deployed a helicopter and a dozen drones spraying insecticide to stop desert locusts that have spread to nine heartland states of the world’s second-biggest producer of rice and wheat.The move came after swarms invaded Gurugram, a satellite city of the capital Ne...
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An overview of pesticides registered in China for application on cotton
2020-07-02
As the largest cotton producing country in the world, China's total cotton output in 2019 was 5.89 million tons, accounting for 22.5% of the global total, with Xinjiang's total cotton production amounting to 5.02 million tons, accounting for 84.9% of the national total.However, s...
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Chinese experts offer advice to locust-hit India
2020-06-28
Chinese experts offered advice to neighboring India as it faces its worst locust swarm in 27 years, amid the novel coronavirus epidemic.?The Indian government should conduct a large-scale spraying of pesticides and track locust movements through weather (wind pattern) monitoring,...
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China donates locust control supplies to Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
2020-06-24
China-aided locust control supplies have been reached in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.? The handover ceremony of the donation was held on June 10, 2020 in Uganda while customs clearance was completed for supplies to Kenya on June 12, 2020. The customs clearance is undergoing for su...
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Agrochemicals market worldwide is projected to reach over US$167.6 billion by 2025
2020-06-23
Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Global Agrochemicals Industry" - Poised to reach over US$167.6 Billion by the year 2025. Fertilizers will bring in healthy gains adding significant momentum to global growth.Amid the COVID-19 crisis and the looming economic re...