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This year, driven by raw material costs and the optimization of industry supply and demand, the price of glyphosate continued to rise from RMB 28,500 per ton at the start of the year to RMB 53,000 per ton in August. Due to the impact of environmental compliance regulations, the s...

When agricultural weeds evolve resistance to herbicides, they do it in one of two ways. In target-site resistance, a tiny mutation in the plant’s genetic code means the chemical no longer fits in the protein it’s designed to attack. In non-target-site resistance, the plant deploy...

African scientists are using gene editing to improve major staple crops for increased productivity, enhanced nutrition and climate resilience.Among them are John Odipo, a scientist at Uganda’s National Crops Resources Rsearch Institute (NaCRRI), who is using gene editing to devel...

Pheromones that interfere with insect mating patterns, crops that are grown together with others and fields edged with wildflowers are just some of the techniques being developed by European scientists to defend crops from pests without resorting to pesticides, which have been li...

Every year, the spores of the wheat blast fungus lie in wait on farms in South America, Bangladesh, and beyond. In most years, the pathogen has only a small impact on the countries’ wheat crops. But the disease spreads quickly, and when the conditions are right there’s a risk of ...

The dining time of different insects impacts a plant’s defenses and nutritional quality—a complexity uncovered in new research with implications for pest management strategies.A piercing-sucking, virus-carrying aphid has long worried pea plant farmers, but a more innocuous-seemin...

A section of agriculture lobbyists want the national? parliament to assess the impact of pesticides banned in the EU on Kenya’s agricultural production before extending the same in Kenya.Fresh produce consortium CEO Ojepat oki Segere says ban on some pesticides will be detrimenta...

Brazil imported 272,218 tons of agrochemicals in the 1st half of 2021, according to a survey by Abiquim (Brazilian Association of Chemical Industry).The result represents an increase of 0.8% compared to Brazilian purchases of pesticides abroad in the first six months of 2020, whe...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China (MARA) posted a message on July 28, 2021, concerning the release of a series of policies that have been formulated and implemented by the MARA, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance, to su...

Climate change will increase the burden of crop diseases in some parts of the world and reduce it in others,?new research suggests.As the planet warms, the impact of crop diseases is likely to fall in tropical areas including Brazil, sub-Saharan Africa, India and Southeast Asia.A...