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Improved seeds: critical input to help farmers adapt to climate change
2019-07-18
Defining agriculture’s contributions towards achieving SDG13–Climate Action was one of the key topics addressed last week at the United Nations High Level Political Forum in New York. Goal 13 calls for “urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts”. One of its 5 targets...
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Chinese agricultural technology to help boost Pakistan's rice export
2019-07-18
Enjoying a much greater amount of rice yield is not the only reason for Pakistan's young agrarian Wasim Waheed's satisfaction, but achieving exemplary excellence in its research and development by using modern technology is also making him happy and proud.The 24-year-old agrarian...
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Brazil's market share of China soybean exports soars to 75%
2019-07-17
Agri-Pulse reports:?U.S. soybean exports to China have been unusually strong over the past several months, but they're still nowhere near the pace they were before the trade war and Brazil appears to be cementing its dominance.?Prior to the trade war, Brazil owned only about 30% ...
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Glufosinate-ammonium formulations lead the registration in June, China
2019-07-17
According to?China Pesticide Registration Watch?, 24 products were granted registration from Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA) in June, 2019. All this month’s registration products are formulations, which include 10 herbicides, 8 hygienic...
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Use of 2,4-D to be restricted in Brazil in 2019
2019-07-10
By Leonardo Gottems, Reporter for AgropagesMarcelo Bressan, Federal Agricultural Tax auditor of the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA), stated that the use of 2,4-D (2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid) based agrochemicals will soon be restricted in Brazil....
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Gene editing expands soybean planting in China
2019-07-10
Chinese agricultural scientists using gene-editing technology have created new soybean mutants, which could lead to soybean crops in much warmer climates including South China and countries near the Equator.?To create the soybean mutants, research teams from the Chinese Academy o...
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Canadian canola loses China market as bilateral relationship weighs on grain trade
2019-07-10
A view of Canadian canola field File photo: ICCanada-grown canola, which has been restricted in China's market due to quality problems, faces the risk of full suspension of shipments to China, as there is no sign that the soured bilateral relationship is improving, industry insid...
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Meet us at the AgroChemEx America 2019,Colombia
2019-06-25
The date of?AgroChemEx America 2019?is drawing near.??On 25th&26th?July 2019, we are happy to meet you at?Sheraton Bogota Hotel, Colombia. Remember our?Booth No. A32.??“Agrochemex Colombia” is ready to facilitate your business development in Colombia and other neighbor countries ...
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Our factory won 2019 China's pesticide industry sales top 20
2019-06-20
At the 6th Pesticide Industry Economic Operation Analysis Meeting and Agrochemical Industry Ranking Conference, China Pesticide Industry Association issued the “2019 China Pesticide Industry Top 50 Agents” list, Jiangsu Aijin Agrochemical Co., Ltd. ranked 19 .?
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Northeast China expands soybean cultivation, reduces reliance on US imports
2019-06-14
China has been expanding the amount of land used to grow soybeans and diversifying its source of imports to reduce reliance on imports from the US? - its second-largest supplier - amid a yearlong trade war between the world's two largest economies.?In Northeast China, the soybean...