Latest news

• Screening native Bacillus strains as potential biological control agents against ginger bacterial wilt and for promoting plant growth

  Apr. 22, 2024

  # Science & Research ## Biopesticide & Biocontrol ## China Special #

• Economic Watch: Low-altitude aircraft finds big market in China's agricultural sector

  Apr. 22, 2024

  # China Special ## Drone/UAV Plant Protection Industry #
• 

  Sumitomo Corporation invests in Chilean biocontrol manufacturing company Bio Insumos Nativa

  Apr. 22, 2024

  Sumitomo Corporation

  # Biopesticide & Biocontrol ## Latin America Focus #

• America’s Cultivation Corridor^® launches new cohort of Cultivo^® Virtual Academy with seven scaleup companies

  Apr. 22, 2024

  # AgTech & Venture Capital #
• 

  CHS to acquire eight Cargill's grain assets

  Apr. 22, 2024

  CHS Inc.

  # Merger & Acquisition #
• 

  Hybrid Rice rises to the challenge of slower adoption by South Asian Farmers

  Apr. 22, 2024

  IRRI (International Rice Research Institute)
• 

  Petkus' first advanced optical sorter OS f3.0 in the southern hemisphere elevates Pyrethrum seed sorting for natural insecticide production

  Apr. 22, 2024

  PETKUS Technologie GmbH
• 

  USDA protects hundreds of crops from invasive fruit flies with five-year strategy

  Apr. 22, 2024

  United States Department of Agriculture(USDA)
• 

  USDA APHIS issues regulatory status review responses for Bayer and other companies' GM crops

  Apr. 22, 2024

  United States Department of Agriculture(USDA)

  # GM Crops #

• IIT Mandi researchers develops natural polymeric microgels for sustainable agriculture

  Apr. 22, 2024

  # Science & Research ## India Special #
• 

  Haifa Group expands to India

  Apr. 22, 2024

  Haifa Group

  # India Special #
• 

  Evagio Forte gives new blight fungicide with built in resistance management

  Apr. 22, 2024

  Syngenta UK Limited

  # Fungicides & Bactericides #
• 

  On-farm trials key to growing mungbean production

  Apr. 22, 2024

  Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC)
• 

  Government of India notifies IFFCO Nano Urea Plus to meet crop’s Nitrogen requirements

  Apr. 22, 2024

  Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO)

  # India Special #

• Breaking records: India's basmati rice exports soar in fiscal year 2024

  Apr. 22, 2024

  # India Special #

• EU - Soil protection law survives plenary vote, but considerably weakened

  Apr. 19, 2024

  # Soil Health #

• Revolutionizing agriculture with nanotechnology: Innovative approaches in fungal disease management and plant health monitoring

  Apr. 19, 2024

  # Science & Research #
• 

  Dhanuka introduces powerful insecticide 'LaNevo' alongside a bio-fertilizer

  Apr. 19, 2024

  Dhanuka Agritech Ltd.

  # Biofertilizer ## India Special ## Newly Registered / Launched #
• 

  Matthew Ingram joins Brandt as VP/Strategy

  Apr. 19, 2024

  BRANDT(former Brandt Consolidated Inc.)

  # Appointment & Recruitment #

• A new mechanism of pathogenic fungus modulating cotton resistance to Verticillium wilt revealed by Biotechnology Research Institute

  Apr. 19, 2024

  # Science & Research ## Biopesticide & Biocontrol ## China Special #
• 

  Judge rejects key expert in paraquat lawsuits, tosses first cases set for trial

  Apr. 19, 2024

  Syngenta United States

  # Non-selective Herbicides #

• Six national commodity groups call on U.S. International Trade Commission to nix petition related to duties on herbicides 2,4-D

  Apr. 19, 2024

  # Non-selective Herbicides #
• 

  Glyphosate Bayer Open Letter

  Apr. 19, 2024

  Bayer CropScience U.S.

  # Non-selective Herbicides #
• 

  AgriZero NZ investment in BioLumic to shine light on low emissions pasture solution

  Apr. 19, 2024

  BioLumic Limited

  # AgTech & Venture Capital #
• 

  Agdia releases StudFinder™, a molecular test for sex determination in Cannabis

  Apr. 19, 2024

  Agdia
• 

  Seipasa: ″Compared to mancozeb, Seican is a safe and reliable alternative that will allow us to access the most demanding consumer markets″

  Apr. 19, 2024

  SEIPASA SA

  # Biopesticide & Biocontrol ## Fungicides & Bactericides ## Latin America Focus #

• Corn stunt disease catches Argentina by surprise

  Apr. 18, 2024

  # Latin America Focus #
• 

  Jingbo Agrochemical: An innovation-driven indoxacarb industry leader

  Apr. 18, 2024

  Shandong Jingbo Agrochemicals Technology Co., Ltd.

  # China Special #
• 

  Swedish agtech startup OlsAro raises €2.5m seed round to expand AI-enabled climate smart crop breeding platform

  Apr. 18, 2024

  OlsAro Crop Biotech AB

  # AgTech & Venture Capital #
• 

  Custom Agronomics acquires BioTek Ag, expands focus on sustainable nutrient use efficiency products

  Apr. 18, 2024

  Custom Agronomics,Inc.

  # Merger & Acquisition #