ChemLinked: Chinese Pesticide Exports Rise 8.4%

Drive by the three East African countries of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda to increase food production has pushed agrochemicals to the top of the region’s agricultural agenda.

Crop protection business to fall under ‘New FMC.’

Focus includes formulation research, discovery chemistry for agricultural solutions.

Biagro’s portfolio includes seed-applied inoculants, plant growth-promoting microorganisms and other products for integrated pest management.

Company says confirmed improved performance with some hydrophilic herbicides and increased uptake with a neonicotinoid insecticide based on recently generated biological data.

More than 10 new active ingredients to be launched in Australia over the next 10 years.

Mild weather conditions and high soil temperatures have brought significant disease problems as well as crop management problems.

ELATUS earns regulatory approval in Brazil.

Governments, NGOs and private industry are all playing a huge role in transforming Africa’s fragmented agriculture production systems. Good agriculture practices, pesticides, fertilizers, irrigation, financing and cooperatives for agronomy and marketing alike are all playing major roles as Sub-Saharan Africa embraces the challenge of feeding more people.