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Pesticides can affect multiple generations of bees
2021-12-03
A new study from researchers at the University of California, Davis, finds that pesticides not only directly affect bee health, but effects from past exposure can carry over to future generations. The study, published in the journal?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
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16 export only registration approved in China in Oct; Find the right partner and activate your regis...
2021-12-03
In October 2021, 16 pesticide products have received export-only registration from China’s Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA), involving active ingredients terbacil, linuron, abamectin, Glyphosate-isopropylammonium, sulfentrazone, and othe...
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Biopesticides can be used to degrade aflatoxin in crops
2021-12-03
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 25% of global food crops are contaminated with different types of fungal toxins, such as aflatoxins, highly toxic and carcinogenic substances produced by certain species of the fungus?Aspergillus. New research published i...
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Kenya - Coffee, maize farmers biggest losers if pesticides banned
2021-12-03
Coffee, maize and wheat farmers could suffer up to 90 per cent in yield losses if the government bans popular pesticide ingredients as demanded by activists.An independent study by Egerton University’s Tegemeo Institute shows, for instance, that farmers will have almost nothing t...
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Cambodia - Losses ahead for farmers as fertilizer and pesticide prices continue to rise
2021-12-03
As farmers begin harvesting the last rice crops for the year and prepare their lands for planting the next year’s crops, many are expecting to see losses in profit and crop yield as the prices of fertilizers and pesticides are on the rise.Farmers tending to their crops. Koh Sante...
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The Alliance for Action on Pesticide in Nigeria (AAPN) calls to look into the gaps in pesticide regu...
2021-12-03
The Alliance for Action on Pesticide in Nigeria (AAPN) has recommended that the National Assembly (NASS) should set up an investigative committee to look into the gaps in pesticide regulation in Nigeria.The Alliance made the recommendation in a communiqué issued at the end of a s...
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China’s pesticide intermediates output to reach 5.3 million tons in 2022
2021-11-26
At present, China and India are the world’s main producers of pesticide technical and intermediates. From 2017, China’s pesticide technical production began to decline, but the prices of pesticide technical began to rise. In 2019, the production of pesticide technical started to ...
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Chinese Customs authority increase the frequency and intensity of casual inspection on hazardous che...
2021-11-26
Recently, AgroPages learned from pesticide exporters that the casual inspection on hazardous chemicals for export conducted by Chinese Customs authority has substantially escalated, where frequency of inspection is excessively high, while taking a longer time and being over strin...
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Russia’s guaranteed fertilizer supply ensures security for new crops in Brazil
2021-11-26
In the medium term, guaranteeing the delivery of fertilizers by both the government and Russian companies will offer security for maintaining good productivity during future Brazilian harvests. This is the analysis of Sergio De Zen, Director of Agricultural Policy and Information...
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Biopesticides: Natural alternatives to toxic chemicals for pest and disease control
2021-11-26
Throughout the 20th century, the use of chemical pesticides was widely adopted in agriculture to control insect pests, weeds, and plant diseases. However, many of these pesticides are now known to be harmful to human health and the environment, leading numerous countries to ban l...
