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Agricultural Adjuvants Global Market Outlook 2022-2027: A $4,786.5 Million Market by 2027, with CAGR...
2022-07-08
The "Agricultural Adjuvants Market - A Global Market and Regional Analysis: Focus on Product, Application, Supply Chain Analysis, and Country Analysis - Analysis and Forecast, 2022-2027" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.The agricultural adjuvants market ...
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U.S. EPA sets wildlife protections on 3 pesticides
2022-07-08
The U.S. EPA has set new restrictions on the use of three commonly used pesticides, including the highly controversial chemical chlorpyrifos.In adopting new conservation measures to be required on labels, the environmental agency allows the continued use of chlorpyrifos, malathio...
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China’s paraquat price rising
2022-07-08
According to baiinfo, the price of Chinese paraquat mother concentrate at 220-kg 42% is quoted at RMB27,000 per ton, rising by RMB1,000 per ton and having reached RMB25,000 to RMB26,000 per ton. The transaction price of 200-liter 20% AS increased by RMB1,000/kl, having reached RM...
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Glyphosate: A timeline of a pesticide’s rise and legal cases
2022-07-01
One of agriculture's chief inputs is not only a mainstay in the field, it's had its fair share of trips to the courtroom as well.Glyphosate, a chemical that was first used to clean out mineral deposits in pipes and boilers, is commonly used as a herbicide to protect a farmer’s cr...
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EU Commission proposes cutting pesticides by 50% by 2030
2022-06-24
The European Commission wants to cut the use of chemical pesticides in half by 2030, as part of its latest plan on sustainability and biodiversity.The EU institution's announcement, a piece of its ambitious Farm to Fork strategy, aims to make food systems more healthy and environ...
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Brazil could become self-sufficient in wheat within 10 years
2022-06-24
In a recent hearing in the Agriculture and Agrarian Reform Commission of the Brazilian Congress, researchers from Embrapa estimated that Brazil could become self sufficient in wheat production within 10 years by expanding wheat production into the cerrado regions of central and n...
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Corn leafhoppers becoming important corn pest in Brazil
2022-06-24
Over the last few years, farmers in southern Brazil have been fighting a new insect pest that has impacted their corn production. The pest is corn leafhoppers (Dalbulus maidis) and it was first identified in Parana in 2017.Corn leafhoppers can transmit a bacterium in the Mollicut...
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ISO approves three new pesticide common names: Fluchloraminopyr, Flufenoximacil and Pyriflubenzoxim
2022-06-24
Three new pesticide common names have recently been provisionally approved by ISO.FluchloraminopyrNew ISO common name provisionally approved in June 2022 for a pyridyloxycarboxylic acid herbicide from Qingdao KingAgroot Chemical Compound Co. It will be sold as an ester, fluchlora...
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Brazilian Anvisa suspends carbendazim fungicide
2022-06-24
The Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) suspended on Tuesday, June 21, the import, production, distribution, and commercialization of the fungicide carbendazim – one of the most used fungicides in Brazil in crops such as soybeans, corn, oranges, and apples.Acti...
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Tenth Meeting of Rotterdam Convention fails to include paraquat in Appendix III of PIC, being an irr...
2022-06-24
From 6 to 17 June, 2022, the Tenth Meeting of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention (COP-10) was held in Geneva, Switzerland. During the conference, paraquat was announced as not being included in the Appendix III of the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure. If this becomes r...