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Corteva Agriscience: Focus on grower and consumer needs and values to develop formulation and application technologies

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Bayer: The Core Strategy of Accelerating Formulation Technology Innovation

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Interview with Minafin Group: Committed to offering greener solutions for crop protection market

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Launched in Brazil, Artificial Intelligence Cl4udIA, seeks to save up to 60% in pesticides

Date：Jun. 18, 2019 Category：Products

The Cl4udIA Artificial Intelligence tool was launched in Brazil, which minimizes the spraying of agrochemicals and generates savings of up to 60% of pesticides....
Cereals 2019: Sales of Belchim’s key potato insecticide suspended

Date：Jun. 18, 2019 Category：Products
Belchim Crop Protection NV

Sales of a key aphicide for use on potato crops have ceased, following reports of residues exceeding maximum limits in Dutch seed crops.
Syngenta registered Posterity fungicide for golf courses in New York

Date：Jun. 18, 2019 Category：Products
Syngenta United States

Syngenta recently registered its Posterity® fungicide in New York to control key diseases on golf course turf. As the most-active SDHI against dollar spot in t...
Syngenta USA celebrates National Pollinator Week by showcasing industry product stewardship efforts

Date：Jun. 18, 2019 Category：Companies

Farmers nationwide are protecting their crops and pollinators, thanks to industry innovations and the observance of best-management practices by growers and app...

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"We will see significant productivity growth with better use of technologies" - Interview with Daniel Bachner

Date：Jun. 18, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

AgroPages exclusively interviewed Daniel Bachner, a former senior executive at the multinational agrochemical company, Syngenta, and who now works as a successf...
Fine Agrochemicals adds Szymon Matysiak to its Marketing Team

Date：Jun. 18, 2019 Category：Companies
Fine Agrochemicals Ltd

Fine Agrochemicals has recently introduced the newest member to join its successful Marketing Team, Szymon Matysiak.

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Nufarm Americas launches Q-Ball herbicide

Date：Jun. 18, 2019 Category：Products

Nufarm Americas introduced new Q-Ball herbicide to control crabgrass and other summer weed escapes, including clover, dandelion, dollarweed, foxtail, kikuyugras...
Agrovista steps up marketing of spray application aids into Europe

Date：Jun. 17, 2019 Category：Products

After two highly successful decades building a multi-million pound market around its range of Discovery spray application aids in the UK, agronomy company Agrov...
Interoc seeks to gain ground in Colombia agrochemicals market

Date：Jun. 17, 2019 Category：Companies
INTEROC S.A.

The largest challenge for the agrochemical industry in Colombia is, according to Santiago Acevedo, general manager of Interoc Colombia, that all companies compl...
Bayer raises the bar in transparency, sustainability and engagement

Date：Jun. 17, 2019 Category：Companies

Bayer is raising the bar in transparency, sustainability and engagement, reflecting its heightened responsibility and potential as a new leader in agriculture. ...
Syngenta to close its chlorothalonil production plant in Houston, USA

Date：Jun. 17, 2019 Category：Companies
Syngenta International AG

Syngenta AG will lay off 135 full-time employees and another 160 contractors in Houston this year as the company closes its Greens Bayou facility near the Port ...
Coromadel get GPCB permission to open its Sarigam facility

Date：Jun. 17, 2019 Category：Companies
Coromandel International Limited

Coromandel International said Saturday that Gujarat State Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has allowed the company to open its facility at Sarigam in Gujarat.
UK - Black-grass with reduced sensitivity to glyphosate detected

Date：Jun. 17, 2019 Category：Science&Research

Early signs of decreased sensitivity to the herbicide glyphosate have been detected in several black-grass field populations in England.

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US EPA to revamp pesticide evaluations

Date：Jun. 17, 2019 Category：Markets

The US Environmental Protection Agency is taking another stab at revising its process for assessing the risks of pesticides to endangered species. The move come...
Brazil updated regulation on agrochemical use in minor crops

Date：Jun. 17, 2019 Category：Regulations

The Brazilian fruit and vegetable sectors have reasons to celebrate. On June 16, Brazil government completed five years of publication of the Joint Normative In...
Research shows temperature, glyphosate increase probability for dicamba volatility

Date：Jun. 14, 2019 Category：Science&Research

Higher temperatures and mixing glyphosate with dicamba lead to increased atmospheric concentrations of dicamba, according to scientists with the University of T...
Illinois extends cutoff date for dicamba application

Date：Jun. 14, 2019 Category：Regulations

The Illinois Department of Agriculture announced recently it will extend the deadline for dicamba application on soybeans in Illinois for the 2019 growing seaso...
OHP announces Ancora Microbial Insecticide formulation change

Date：Jun. 14, 2019 Category：Products
OHP Inc

OHP announces a key formulation change to its Ancora Microbial Insecticide, designed to make spray applications easier in a greenhouse and nursery.
Sipcam Agro releases two new fungicides Miramar and Spinnaker for sugarbeets in the USA

Date：Jun. 14, 2019 Category：Companies
Sipcam Italia S.p.A.

This season, sugarbeet growers have unprecedented options for battling Cercospora leaf spot (CLS), as Sipcam Agro expands its portfolio with two new fungicides ...
Certis USA makes donation to fund citrus greening research

Date：Jun. 14, 2019 Category：Companies

Certis USA has donated $20,000 to the Citrus Research and Development Foundation, Inc. (CRDF) to help fund the non-profit’s research aimed at finding a cure fo...
Natural herbicide found in Argentina could control weeds

Date：Jun. 14, 2019 Category：Science&Research
INBIOAR S.A.

Inbioar is a biotechnological project, which through phytochemistry and ecology seeks to develop products from plant extracts for crop protection. What is the n...
India CIBRC 400th meeting: Tolpyralate and Tetramethrin TC registrations got approved

Date：Jun. 14, 2019 Category：Markets

The Indian Central Insecticides Board and Registration Committee (CIBRC) approved Tolpyralate and Tetramethrin TC registrations at the 400th meeting of the Regi...
BASF presents first results of Zidua herbicide in Argentina

Date：Jun. 14, 2019 Category：Products

In the last edition of the Maizar Congress, BASF was present to accompany corn producers in a context of record cereal exports, with more than 4.15 million tons...

Tags:BASF Pyroxasulfone Saflufenacil
Brazil Anvisa extends public consultation period for glyphosate re-evaluation

Date：Jun. 14, 2019 Category：Regulations

The National Sanitary Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has extended for 30 days the deadline for sending contributions to the public consultation regarding the re-e...

Tags:Glyphosate
Austria moves to ban glyphosate this year

Date：Jun. 13, 2019 Category：Markets

Austria is heading toward a likely ban of glyphosate this year after the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) backed the Social Democrats' drive to end usage of the c...

Tags:Glyphosate
New research decodes plant defense system, with an eye on improving farming and medicine

Date：Jun. 13, 2019 Category：Science&Research

University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)'s Hua Lu, professor of biological sciences, and colleagues have found new genetic links between a plant's circadi...
Nufarm appoints process engineer for Greenville, Mississippi facility

Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Companies
Nufarm Americas Inc.

Nufarm recently announced the hiring of Leonardo S. Buzzetto as process engineer for its Greenville, Mississippi manufacturing facility. Buzzetto will be focusi...
A combination of insecticides and mite weakens honeybees

Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Science&Research

Today, scientists of the Institute of Bee Health of the University of Bern and the honeybee research association COLOSS have published an article in the peer-re...
Syngenta to build first herbicide plant in Russia for $25 mn

Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Companies
Syngenta International AG

Syngenta plans to build its first herbicide plant in Russia at a cost of 1.6 billion roubles ($25 million), it said on Tuesday.

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Dow: High performance oil dispersion adjuvant development

Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Oil dispersion (OD) formulation is an emerging formulation in Ag industry, which is claimed as environmental friendly, better pesticide efficacy than water-base...

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Discussion

: Registration & Launch

Three Syngenta turf solutions now registered for use in California
Australia approved BASF’s Serifel Biofungicide

Three Syngenta turf solutions now registered for use in California
Australia approved BASF’s Serifel Biofungicide

: Investment & Expansion

Azelis opens Specialty Agri/Horti application laboratory in China
Eastman Chemical Co. to expand its Louisiana facility with $70M investment

Azelis opens Specialty Agri/Horti application laboratory in China
Eastman Chemical Co. to expand its Louisiana facility with $70M investment

: Collaborations & Licences

PrecisionHawk partners with Pix4D to unlock in-field drone data analytics with Pix4Dfields
Univar Solutions' NexusBioAg begins Canadian sole distribution agreement with Novozymes

PrecisionHawk partners with Pix4D to unlock in-field drone data analytics with Pix4Dfields
Univar Solutions' NexusBioAg begins Canadian sole distribution agreement with Novozymes

: Mergers & Acquisitions

Koppert partners with Nitrasoil in Argentina
Elders makes $187m takeover bid for AIRR

Koppert partners with Nitrasoil in Argentina
Elders makes $187m takeover bid for AIRR

: Sales Performance

Nissan Chemical’s agricultural chemicals segment sales up 8% in FY 2018
Sumitomo Chemical's Health and Crop Sciences segment sales down in FY 2018

Nissan Chemical’s agricultural chemicals segment sales up 8% in FY 2018
Sumitomo Chemical's Health and Crop Sciences segment sales down in FY 2018

Answer

: 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