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Artificial intelligence (AI) and digital technology have the potential to support our farmers in overcoming a range of challenges. These technologies provide farmers with enhanced decision-making as one of their core benefits. Increased access to markets, inputs, data, guidance, ...

The Federal Government of?Nigeria says it is working with relevant National Assembly Committees on Agriculture to have a framework to ensure sanity in the agro-chemicals or pesticides business in the country.The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Mohammed Abubakar,...

Agriculture ministers have warned that significantly reducing pesticide use in the European Union could affect crop yields during a highly uncertain time.An ambitious goal proposed by the European Commission to cut pesticide use in half by 2030 has been criticized by member state...

The agriculture crisis precipitated by the Ukraine-Russia conflict, especially fertilizer, wheat and edible oil shortages in Africa, calls for the urgent deployment of on-the-ground science-led solutions readily available with agricultural research institutes, says Dr Rebbie Hara...

Widely used insecticides that harm bees and songbirds would face far-reaching restrictions in California under regulations proposed by the state’s pesticide agency.The new limits would be among the nation’s most extensive for agricultural use of neonicotinoids, a class of insecti...

Back in 2016, SGS Kenya was accredited by the Kenyan Pest Controls Product Board to support regulatory efficacy and residue testing in field trials for the first time.However, in a recent inspection, it not only renewed its accreditation but further extended it: SGS experts can n...

On Monday,?the Ninth Circuit ordered?the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review the harm that can be caused to certain endangered species by an allegedly toxic fungicide. The EPA must conduct the review by June 2023.The Center for Biological Diversity and the Center...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is releasing its?draft biological evaluation (BE)?that contains EPA’s analysis of the potential effects of the insecticide sulfoxaflor on federally listed endangered and threatened (listed) species and designated critical habitats. T...

Morocco has a large fertiliser industry with huge production capacity and international reach. It is one of the world’s top four fertiliser exporters following Russia, China and Canada.Fertilisers tend to divide into three main categories; nitrogen fertilisers, phosphorus fertili...

Pesticide Action Network (PAN) – a coalition of 600 NGOs, citizen groups and individuals from 60 countries – is calling for the European Commission (EC) to change its course and not call tomorrow for farmers to keep using what they catalog as ″notoriously toxic″ pesticide Propyza...