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

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

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Agrivalle launched bioinsecticide Auin CE in Brazil

Date：Jun. 24, 2019 Category：Products
Agrivalle Brasil Indústria e Comércio de Produtos Agrícolas Ltda.

Agrivalle has launched a new formulation of the Auin CE microbiological insecticide in Brazil. Produced from the fungus Beauveria bassiana (isolated CBMAI 1306)...

Tags:Beauveria bassiana
Fear of biotechnology threatens efforts to save Brazil’s pinto beans

Date：Jun. 24, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

The combination of rice and beans is the trademark of Brazilian cuisine, with the “carioca” type of brown beans accounting for 70 percent of the consumption o...

Tags:GM crop
The fifth GMO cotton was approved by Argentina

Date：Jun. 24, 2019 Category：Regulations

June 21st. Last week, alongside Mr. Christian Monty, Head of Global Cotton from BASF, the AgroIndustry Secretary Luis Miguel Etechevehere, announced the release...

Tags:GM crop Cotton
Brazil Anvisa approves Corteva's herbicide Rinskor

Date：Jun. 24, 2019 Category：Products

Corteva Agriscience confirmed to AgroPages that the company has received the approval of Anvisa (National Sanitary Surveillance Agency) to sell Rinskor (florpyr...

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Costa Rica will restrict the use of glyphosate in agriculture

Date：Jun. 21, 2019 Category：Markets

Costa Rica's Ministry of Health announced that it will restrict the use of glyphosate in some sectors of the country and that there will be new regulations in o...

Tags:Glyphosate
Corteva Agriscience Launches Cordius Seed Licensing Brand

Date：Jun. 21, 2019 Category：Companies
Corteva Agriscience

Corteva Agriscience launched the Cordius™ seed licensing brand, which will provide high-throughput genetics to partner multipliers. The company is currently wo...
Jacto presents in Brazil specific sprayer for protected crops

Date：Jun. 21, 2019 Category：Products
Maquinas Agricolas Jacto S.A.

Jacto is participating in the 25th edition of Hortitec, presenting several innovations in the segment of protected crops. The main highlight for this year is th...
Albaugh expands commercial structure in Brazil

Date：Jun. 21, 2019 Category：Companies
Albaugh Brasil

In just over three years of activities in Brazil, Albaugh has become a force to reckon with in the post-patent agrochemicals market. Positioned among the fastes...
Brazil Anvisa approves inclusion of new chemical and biological pesticides

Date：Jun. 19, 2019 Category：Products

Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) approved the inclusion of new monographs in May 2019. They include one chemical herbicide and three biolo...
Brazil authorizes 31 more agrochemical registrations in May 2019

Date：Jun. 19, 2019 Category：Markets

The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) of Brazil registered 31 agrochemicals in May. In total, 169 products were authorized in 2019, represent...
Innovative approach to tackling pesticide resistance evolution, the study will focus on Brazil

Date：Jun. 18, 2019 Category：Science&Research

A new £620,000 study led by the University of Stirling is taking a "revolutionary approach" in attempting to tackle resistance to pesticides in insects.
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....
UPL helps Brazilian potato producer to get GlobalGAP certification

Date：Jun. 18, 2019 Category：Companies
UPL Brasil

UPL has provided all support to Rocheto Group, Brazil's largest pre-fried potato processor (through the company Bem Brasil), in the process of achieving the int...
"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...
Grain companies in Brazil may reduce credit for farmers

Date：Jun. 17, 2019 Category：Markets

Grain companies in Brazil, who are members of the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (Abiove), have indicated that they intend to reduce the amou...
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...
Eurofins Agroscience Services appointed new GLP Lab Manager, Brazil

Date：Jun. 17, 2019 Category：Companies
Eurofins Agroscience Services Ltd.

Eurofins Agroscience Services announced that Mariana Ratti Doro joined the Group as GLP Lab Manager, Brazil.
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...
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...
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
Parana hit hardest by soybean rust of any State in Brazil

Date：Jun. 13, 2019 Category：Markets

Soybean producers in the state of Parana have noticed in recent years that their state has been recording the highest number of soybean rust cases of any state ...
Argentina: Is there still a chance to pass a new a reformed Plant Breeders Act?

Date：Jun. 12, 2019 Category：Regulations

Remaining only six months to conclude the Mauricio Macri’s presidency (until now is not clear if he will be re-elected) and a new Plant Breeders Act is still w...
96% of fungicides used on Brazilian soybeans is for rust control

Date：Jun. 11, 2019 Category：Markets

Soybean rust was first discovered in Brazil during the 2000/01 growing season and since then, the disease has cost Brazilian producers billions of dollars in co...

Tags:AgriData
For the first time, Don Mario’s soybean varieties were planted in China

Date：Jun. 10, 2019 Category：Companies

Last week, the team of Don Mario ended the planting of its soybean varieties in the North of China, the biodiversity origin region of this specie.

Tags:Soybean
Argentina SENASA: The contribution of bio-inputs in good agricultural practice

Date：Jun. 10, 2019 Category：Markets

The Argentine National Service of Health and Food Quality (Senasa) was present at V National Day of Bio- inputs, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Agric...
Syngenta launches Minecto Pro insecticide in Argentina to control whitefly and thrips

Date：Jun. 5, 2019 Category：Products
Syngenta Agro

Whiteflies and thrips are two pests that are difficult to control in the production of tomatoes and peppers. They are important vectors of phytopathogenic virus...

Tags:Cyantraniliprole Abamectin
Nortox celebrates 65 years and announces product launches

Date：Jun. 5, 2019 Category：Companies

Nortox celebrated 65 years of being in business in 2019, while announcing product launches and its new growth strategy. As it has been doing for the last two ye...
Kimberlit enters biopesticide market under the Bionat brand

Date：Jun. 4, 2019 Category：Companies
Kimberlit Agrociências

The Brazilian specialty fertilizer company, Kimberlit Agrociências, entered the biopesticides market by launching the Bionat brand. A new factory was inaugurat...
University of São Paulo creates natural insecticide with saffron to kill Aedes aegypti larva

Date：Jun. 4, 2019 Category：Science&Research

The dye extracted from the Indian saffron (Curcuma longa L.), also called Curcumin, can eliminate the larvae of the mosquito that transmits dengue and other dis...

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Discussion

: Investment & Expansion

Syngenta to build first herbicide plant in Russia for $25 mn
FMC Canada opens new head office in Mississauga, Ontario

Syngenta to build first herbicide plant in Russia for $25 mn
FMC Canada opens new head office in Mississauga, Ontario

: Registration & Launch

Brazil Anvisa approves Corteva's herbicide Rinskor
Sipcam's Coastal Herbicide registered in US

Brazil Anvisa approves Corteva's herbicide Rinskor
Sipcam's Coastal Herbicide registered in US

: Collaborations & Licences

Corteva Agriscience and John Deere invest in technology solutions and tools to help African farmers improve
BASF’s xarvio Digital Farming Solutions announces new digital collaboration with Nutrien Ag Solutions

Corteva Agriscience and John Deere invest in technology solutions and tools to help African farmers improve
BASF’s xarvio Digital Farming Solutions announces new digital collaboration with Nutrien Ag Solutions

: Mergers & Acquisitions

Wilbur-Ellis Acquires Ag Services, Inc.
Gowan Group acquires Brazilian Company Cross Link

Wilbur-Ellis Acquires Ag Services, Inc.
Gowan Group acquires Brazilian Company Cross Link

: 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