On Monday evening, the White House announced that it would be imposing new trade tariffs on $200bn worth of Chinese imports, as the US-China trade war heats up. Coming into effect on 24 September, the US will impose a 10% trade tariff on some Chinese goods until the end of the year, amounting to around […]
Since many years, India is supplying very good quality formulations of generic pesticides to different markets, but now time has come to become strong in backward integration to participate more significantly in global market. As such Indian formulations are popular in global markets but suffer due to limitation of product diversity which is actually originated […]
The Czech Republic will limit the use of substances containing the controversial glyphosate as of next year, the agriculture ministry said on Monday. A World Health Organization study has found that glyphosate probably causes cancer but studies conducted since have disagreed. The Czech Republic will ban the blanket use of glyphosate as a weedkiller and […]
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2018/1019 of 18 July 2018 concerning the non-renewal of approval of the active substance oxasulfuron, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 (Text with EEA relevance) […]
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2018/1043 of 24 July 2018 concerning the non-renewal of approval of the active substance fenamidone, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 (Text with EEA relevance) […]
By region, Europe is the world’s largest market for biostimulant, and its market is expected to reach $1.1 billion by 2022. There are relatively many biostimulant companies in Europe. According to the European Biostimulant Industry Association (EBIC), there are nearly 200 biostimulant manufacturers in Europe. A major feature of European biostimulant companies is that they invest […]
The American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) is requesting that seeds for sowing be exempted from the proposed list of supplemental retaliatory tariffs on China under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. The request was made yesterday in a formal letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer. “While we support the administration’s push for […]
Gustavo Mostajo, Head of Minagri, announced that at the end of the year the list of the crop of prohibited products will be kept. He clarified that there will be a period of adaptation to remove them from the market. In order to avoid new cases of massive poisoning, such as what occurred in the […]
A new European project has been launched to help tackle the increased threat to wheat crops from invasive races of rust. In particular, RustWatch, coordinated by ENDURE partner Aarhus University, will provide a new early warning system to boost preparedness and resilience to new invasive wheat rust races. The Aarhus University website reports: “Acting with […]