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The growing world population needs a secure supply of food. Biofortifying staple foods is one way to solve challenges in the food industry. A paper recently published in?Biology?has considered the use of nanotechnology to fortify wheat, a key global crop.What is Biofortification?...

A new study has raised fears that populations of an invasive insect responsible for billions of dollars of lost harvests across dozens of African countries have formed one intercontinental ‘super-population’.This interbreeding of fall armyworm populations increases the chances th...

Higher prices and empty shelves have been one of the hallmarks of the shipping crisis, as a historic number of cargo ships wait off the coast of Southern California to bring goods to port and offload them. But the congestion has rippled through the goods movement chain and has al...

An expert team at the hybrid rice demonstration base of Hebei Silicon Valley Agricultural Science Research Institute, in Yongnian District, Handan City, Hebei Province, China, on October 23, physically measured the yield per mu (1 hectare = 15 mu), which reached 1,326.77 kg, to s...

Three years after the ban on the herbicide paraquat in Brazil, farmers are still finding it difficult to replace this broad-spectrum herbicide belonging to the chemical group bipyridine, which acts on the photosystem of invasive plants, according to the specialized portal Global ...

The Uruguayan Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries limited the use of the active ingredient paraquat dichloride, prohibiting its use as a crop desiccant.According to a resolution of the General Directorate of Agricultural Services (DGSA), the only crops that can use ...

China, one of the largest suppliers of inputs for manufacturing agricultural pesticides, faces severe energy restrictions that threaten the Brazilian agribusiness, said Professor Marcos Fava Neves, a specialist in agribusiness strategic planning.“Since many Chinese industries hav...

The possibility of using the hormonal herbicide Dicamba in the current crop, which will feature for the first time a variety of soybean tolerant to the agrochemical, led to an extraordinary meeting of the Sectorial Chamber of Soy on Wednesday, October 27.?The meeting was called b...

One of the strategies of the government to deal with a possible lack of pesticides for crops in the future is to anticipate registration requests for new suppliers at Anvisa, said Director of the Department of Plant Health and Agricultural Inputs at the Ministry of Agriculture, C...

The input price scenario for 2022 is growing more complicated and scary by the week. Farmers are already preparing for added costs to grow a crop next year, but even today's prices may be an accurate snapshot for 2022 potential budgets. That's because input prices continue to cli...