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Insecticide resistance and rapid pest evolution threatens food security and the development of sustainable agricultural practices, yet the evolutionary mechanisms that allow pests to rapidly adapt to control tactics is unclear. The Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineat...

Startups developing biological inputs for crops raised just over $892 million worldwide last year, according to preliminary data from?AgFunder.That’s well over double their total funding haul for the previous year – indicating just how much interest in the space has grown.Please ...

All living things have their natural enemies, and in the case of crop pests and diseases, the key is to find them, isolate them, and mass-produce them for application. Chemical pesticides have long been the most widespread solution to these problems, but as concerns around their ...

The prices of the two mainstream herbicides, acetochlor and butachlor, rose significantly in the past year, and will remain high this year because of the lack of supply.?According to the herbicide technical price index published by Sino Agri on February 6, 2022, the price of buta...

The central government of India may soon finalise a production linked incentive (PLI) scheme for agrochemicals. Specific products that will enjoy the benefits under the scheme have been identified, and the industry consultations are over, it is learnt. Once announced, agrochemica...

In recent years, with the increased control of new entry level pesticide projects in China’s eastern coastal provinces, especially in light of the strict regulation of chemical parks in the major chemical production provinces, most notably Jiangsu, some chemical manufacturers wer...

The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs recently issued the “Resolution on GM Biosafety Evaluation Management Measure” (Draft for Comment), which will make amendments to some of provisions of previous management measures, in line with the latest GM development requi...

The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, last Wednesday (February 9), approved the PL 6299/02 bill that modernizes and optimizes the rules for registering agrochemicals in the country.?Improving timelineAmong the main changes is establishing a maximum period of two years for the releas...

Nitrogen fertilizers are a key component in the production of field crops. Fertilizer constitutes an average of 36 percent of a farmer's operating costs for corn, 35 percent for wheat, and 30 percent for sorghum, according to estimates in USDA, Economic Research Service's (ERS) 2...

With strong inflation in input prices, the purchasing power of Argentine soy producers against glyphosate ended the year 2021 falling by 137%.Despite a slight improvement in December, the ratio of agricultural commodities to fertilizers and herbicides is far from the average of t...