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# Top News #

Top 10 Indian Agro-news in June 2021

​Below are the most-viewed news regarding Indian companies, products, regulation and research that were published on AgroPages in June 2021.

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# Seed Treatment #

Powerpollen announces commercial license agreement with Bayer for innovative corn seed pollination technology

PowerPollen® recently announced a commercial license agreement with Bayer designed to help corn seed production growers increase their yields. PowerPollen’s Pollination-on-Demand technology gives farmers greater flexibility by allowing them to optimize the t...

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# UAV Plant Protection Industry #

Industrial drones to uplift agriculture in Sri Lanka

As the market leader and authorized agent for DJI and Pix4D in Sri Lanka for Enterprise and Agriculture drones, SiT offers a range of services including Drone utility and mapping software, Professional photogrammetry, Enterprise and Agriculture drone supply, A...

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# Industry Rankings #

Brazil: Ten agrochemical companies win 16th ‘Best Agribusiness Award’

The winners of the 16th edition of the “Best Agribusiness Award” in the “Agricultural Defensives” category was announced recently.

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# Soil Health #

Improving soil health starts with farmer-researcher collaboration

Ask a farmer, a scientist, and a conservation professional to define soil health, and you might come up with three rather different answers. That mismatch may be at the root of lower-than-ideal adoption of soil conservation practices, according to a new study ...

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# Underground Pests & Nematicide #

Certis Europe collaborates with Swansea University to develop volatile organic compounds for soil pest control

A new project to develop innovative products to control soil pests which will help farmers improve the quality of their crops, has been launched by Swansea University, with crop protection specialist Certis Europe as the only industry partner.

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# Registration & Launch #

Best Crop Science LLP becomes first agrochemical Company in India to manufacture Trifloxystrobin Technical

Best Agrolife announced that the Central Insecticides Board & Registration Committee has granted Licence for indigenous manufacture of Trifloxystrobin Technical u/s 9(3) to Best Crop Science LLP for the first time in India.

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# Mergers & Acquisitions #

TELUS Agriculture and Rabobank acquire Conservis

Rabobank, the premier global food and agriculture bank, and TELUS Agriculture, global agriculture technology leader, have acquired Conservis, a company that integrates disparate farm technologies into one streamlined interface to manage the business of farming...

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# Collaborations & Licences #

Enko, Bayer collaborate on new chemistries for safe pesticides

Enko announced details on its partnership with Bayer to develop diverse chemistries for crop protection. Applying drug discovery approaches from pharma to crop protection will allow the companies to identify unexpected product candidates that safely target pes...

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What options/alternatives farmers in China have replacing paraquat? Are there other useful herbicdes, i.e. diquat, glufosinate (which others) that can cover this gap? Would the replacements be related to higher costs as well? What crop protection startegies would farmers adapt replacing paraquat?

1 Like    1 AnswersSir, thanks for question. For weed control, Glyphosate and Glufosinate are the main options while many other broad spectrum herbicides also ...All

Asian soybean rust is the most important disease in soybean, the yield loss being from 10% to 90%, dependent on the geographical region where the disease was reported. What are the key points in controlling Asian rust?

The use of an efficient product since the beginning of the soy cycle is one of the most important decisions for growers after the crop impla...All