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Agriculture Ministers of the European Union in Prague: EU must strengthen food security, improve sus...
2022-09-23
Food security and the role of European agriculture and food in sustainable global food production were the main topics of today's informal meeting of EU Agriculture Ministers in Prague. Ministers agreed that the EU must now act in a coordinated way to maximise sustainable increas...
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In Moldova, agricultural drones are used more and more by farmers
2022-09-16
Ecological and efficient, drones are modern agriculture’s know-how, which comes to complement sprinklers and tractors. DRON Assistance, a company financially supported by UNDP Moldova and the European Union, provides, with the help of drones, intelligent services to Moldovan farm...
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EU delays lower in pesticide use over meals output fears
2022-09-16
The EU is delaying plans to halve using pesticides over fears the transfer may lower meals manufacturing and lift costs of essential merchandise within the bloc.The Sustainable Use of Pesticides regulation intends to scale back the quantity of chemical compounds deployed by 50 pe...
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A Chinese wheat breeder’s international vision
2022-09-16
The Ukraine crisis, coupled with extreme weather phenomena in recent years, has driven up global food prices sharply and a grim food crisis looms large. Food security has thus become a concern for all. In April, when President Xi Jinping visited the Yazhou Bay Seed Laboratory in ...
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Fungicide use drops by 12.3% in Brazil
2022-09-16
There was a 12.3% drop in the use of fungicides in Brazilian crops, whose treated area fell from 145.325 million hectares to 127.440 million hectares in the first half of 2022, the National Union of Plant Defense Products Industry (Sindiveg) informed.″This was mainly due to the a...
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Agriculture with drones: How do drones contribute to sustainable farming?
2022-09-16
Drone technology has great benefits for many industries around the world. Drone adoption is the need of the hour for the agriculture industry. Some drone servicing companies like Fly Guys are already teaming up with farming giants to help them increase their yields.There has been...
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Weedy rice has become herbicide resistant through rapid evolution
2022-09-09
In a paper published Sept. 8 in the journal?Communications Biology, scientists from Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Arkansas report that a crop pest called weedy rice has become widely herbicide resistant in regions where herbicide-resistant rice is plant...
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Biological seed treatment market worth $3.59 billion by 2029
2022-09-09
According to a new market research report titled,?″Biological Seed Treatment Market?by Type (Microbial {Bacteria}, Biochemical), Formulation (Liquid Formulation), Application Techniques (Seed Coating), Crop Type (Cereals & Grains {Corn, Wheat}, Oilseeds {Cotton}), and Geography -...
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Researchers to focus on wheat breeding and climate change
2022-09-09
The University of California-Davis is leading a five-year, $15 million research project to accelerate wheat breeding to meet those new climate realities, as well as to train a new generation of plant breeders.″Breeding crops for the future will require new traits, breeding platfo...
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In India and China, farmers fret as drought and heat threaten rice harvest
2022-09-09
In June, when Mahendra Pratap began planting his rice paddy fields in Kannauj, a district of India’s Uttar Pradesh state, he was hoping for a good harvest.The year before torrential rain had destroyed his crops and he did not receive any help from the government.But during the re...
