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The Sri Lankan government imposed a ban on the import and use of conventional agricultural chemicals (fertilizers and pesticides) in April 2021. The ban was followed by the active promotion of using organic inputs in farmlands throughout the country. This contributed to a reducti...

On the day we were going to interview Mr. Pradip Dave, President of Pesticides Manufacturers & Formulators Association of India (PMFAI), I saw the news which said that India surpasses the UK as the world's 5th largest economy based on IMF data and may become the world’s third-lar...

The Union Agriculture Ministry has restricted the use of glyphosate, a widely used herbicide. This comes even as the Supreme Court on November 10 is about to take up a plea seeking a ban on all herbicide-tolerant crops, including transgenic hybrid mustard and cotton.What is glyph...

Brazil is a world reference for recycling?pesticide?packaging?– 94% of packaging placed on the market is recycled, transformed again into the same product or incinerated at an appropriate place.″By way of comparison, in 1999, 50% of?empty crop protection packages?were?donated or ...

The lack of rains hampered the development of soybeans and corn, mainly in the Southern region and in Mato Grosso do Sul, in the 2021/2022 harvest, according to the results of the production cost surveys of the Campo Futuro Project.Data from the production chain of cereals, fiber...

China and Brazil have agreed to terms on phytosanitary standards for Brazilian corn to be exported to China. While the final agreement was announced a few months ago, the process was set in motion in 2014, but very little Brazilian corn moved to China due to the complex inspectio...

Sri Lanka has spent a record 9.6 billion rupees for maize imports this year, government data showed, amid a looming shortage of the grains for animal feed industry after the government’s agrochemicals ban took the toll.The country spent 573.4 million rupees to import maize seeds ...

India aims to end imports of urea from 2025 as the nation boosts its local production capacity with the commissioning of new plants, fertilisers minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Wednesday.India, the top importer of urea, imports about 30% of its average 35 million tonnes of ann...

Soil infertility is one of the pressing challenges in the field of agriculture worldwide. In effect, the demand for biostimulants has increased substantially in recent years. Biostimulants are products that help in overcoming the supply chain volatility in agriculture introduced ...

Will new ag tech enable farmers to farm sustainably and concurrently reduce their agrochemical dependence? That’s what investors are hoping for in their new startup portfolios and what regulatory agencies are targeting to meet their aggressive Integrated Pest Management (IPM)/pes...