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USDA issues $100 million for agricultural trade promotion program

Date：Jul. 22, 2019 Category：Markets

USDA awarded $100 million to 48 organizations through the Agricultural Trade Promotion Program, or ATP, in a second round of assistance granted to the groups to...
The Climate Corporation expands digital solutions for Canadian farmers through two new ag tech partnerships

Date：Jul. 22, 2019 Category：Companies
The Climate Corporation

The Climate Corporation (Climate), a subsidiary of Bayer, announced new platform partnership agreements between the company’s industry-leading Climate FieldVie...
India's summer crop planting down nearly 7% - Government data

Date：Jul. 22, 2019 Category：Markets

Indian farmers planted an array of summer-sown crops on 56.7 million hectares, down 6.9% year on year, agriculture ministry data showed on Friday, narrowing the...
Land O'Lakes SUSTAIN, AGCO work together to deploy cutting-edge equipment

Date：Jul. 22, 2019 Category：Companies
Land O'Lakes, Inc.

Land O'Lakes SUSTAIN joined global agricultural equipment manufacturer AGCO Corporation in a new collaboration to help farmers deploy cutting-edge application e...

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Panel of CMs proposes linking Central funds with Indian agri reforms

Date：Jul. 19, 2019 Category：Regulations

A panel of chief ministers is considering a proposal to link major Central government fund transfers with the pace of agriculture market reforms by each state i...
Top 10 Upcoming, Profitable & Promising Careers in Indian Agriculture

Date：Jul. 19, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Agriculture is considered as an important sector of Indian Economy as it accounts for 18 per cent of the nation’s GDP. Hence, India is well known as an agricul...
Winfield United connects John Deere to Answer Tech Data Silo

Date：Jul. 19, 2019 Category：Companies
WinField United

WinField United continues to improve the integration and accessibility of on-farm data through the recent addition of John Deere to its Answer Tech Data Silo, t...
Ag Growth Inc. makes $15 million investment in Farmobile

Date：Jul. 19, 2019 Category：Companies

Ag Growth International Inc. (TSX: AFN) ("AGI" or the "Company") recently announced it has agreed to make a minority equity investment of US$15M in Farmobile, I...
What Tesla can teach us about the future of farming

Date：Jul. 19, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

It’s hard to believe that electric vehicles were still considered the stuff of science fiction as little as 13 years ago.
Time to Implement Smart Agriculture with Smart Farming & Smart Farmer: Tomar at ICAR’s 91st Foundation Day

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

The Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Narendra Singh Tomar addressed the 91st Foundation Day ceremony of the Indian Council for Agricultural Res...
A fertile field for job creation in India

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

The Agritech market was worth $7.53 billion in 2018. By 2023, it is expected to touch the $13.50 billion mark with a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) forecast...
John Deere announces new Registered Apprenticeship Program

Date：Jul. 18, 2019 Category：Products
John Deere

John Deere has received approval from the U.S. Department of Labor for its new Registered Apprenticeship Program and is making it available to its Agriculture &...
Focused attention needed to meet India’s food needs: Chemicals Secretary

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

P. Raghavendra Rao, Secretary, Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals, Government of India today said that India faces a big challenge in meeting its food nee...
Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture seeks regulation for agriculture drone spray operations

Date：Jul. 18, 2019 Category：Regulations

Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture has begun the process of regulating control of drone use for aerial application of pesticides recently, drafting a set of regu...
Corteva Agriscience unveils plans for regional agro-innovation hub in Zambia

Date：Jul. 18, 2019 Category：Companies

US agriculture company Corteva Agriscience, which supplies crop protection as well as seeds to farmers, officially launched in Zambia this week with a pledge to...
ADAMA Announces Eagle Eye Ag Service

Date：Jul. 18, 2019 Category：Companies
ADAMA Agricultural Solutions Ltd

ADAMA US announced a new service offering for its customers. ADAMA Eagle Eye powered by Agremo offers an advanced analysis of aerial data and imagery that helps...
Kharif crop output of India might be steady this season: ICAR

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

Amid concerns over a possible shortfall in output due to lower acreage and deficit rainfall, government’s agriculture research agency ICAR has said the product...
The Changing Scenario of Indian Agriculture

Date：Jul. 17, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

India, since the mid-1990s, is one of the fastest growing G20 economies, reflecting an ambitious and successful reform agenda launched in 2014. It has developed...
PrecisionHawk partners with Pix4D to unlock in-field drone data analytics with Pix4Dfields

Date：Jul. 17, 2019 Category：Companies
PrecisionHawk

PrecisionHawk announced a partnership with Pix4D Agriculture to enhance the in-field data collection, verification, and analytics experience.

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Policy on the Advancement of Agricultural Growth and Production in India

Date：Jul. 17, 2019 Category：Regulations

Indian economy has witnessed many new economic policies that brought about the substantial changes in many sectors. Agricultural policy is the all-round develo...
Organic Producers Are Helping India’s Farmers Safeguard Their Land

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

The label on organic, fair-trade coffee and clothing doesn’t always tell the full story. In some cases, companies are working behind the scenes to provide more...
European Parliament elects new Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development

Date：Jul. 17, 2019 Category：Markets

The European Parliament’s 20 standing Committees and two Sub-Committees have elected their chair and vice-chairs.
Official definition of "precision agriculture" released

Date：Jul. 17, 2019 Category：Markets

Definition: "Precision Agriculture is a management strategy that gathers, processes and analyzes temporal, spatial and individual data and combines it with othe...
Argentina's potential for the processing tomato industry

Date：Jul. 17, 2019 Category：Markets

Currently, total surfaces planted with tomatoes for processing in Argentina cover 5,500 hectares, for a crop that last year reached approximately 400,000 metric...

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Google wants Indian farmers to use AI to find bugs in cotton crop, improve annual yield

Date：Jul. 16, 2019 Category：Science&Research

India is the largest producer and the second largest exporter of cotton in the world. Yet, for the farmers raising cotton crop the year 2017 was horrendous. Rea...
‘Ailing cotton sector in India needs revival measures’

Date：Jul. 16, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

As yields plummet experts emphasis use of New Gen seeds, better farm practices urged
Farmer unions of India demand that GM event developer be made legally liable for illegal GM crop cultivation

Date：Jul. 16, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

PUNE: I a press release issued today, prominent farmer leaders of India have cautioned the government that if it does not take strong action to stop illegal GM ...
Agriculture to remain a high priority for the next European Parliament

Date：Jul. 15, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Copa and Cogeca congratulates Mr David Sassoli for his election as President of the European Parliament and welcome the increase in the number of seats in the A...
Brazil's market share of China soybean exports soars to 75%

Date：Jul. 15, 2019 Category：Markets

U.S. soybean exports to China have been unusually strong over the past several months, but they're still nowhere near the pace they were before the trade war an...
NABARD to Fund India’s Five Most Promising Agritech Startups

Date：Jul. 15, 2019 Category：Companies

National bank for agriculture and rural development (NABARD) felicitated five Agritech startups for their promising role in agriculture on the occasion of the 3...

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: Registration & Launch

FarmHannong launches herbicide Flexo in Philippines
Three Syngenta turf solutions now registered for use in California

FarmHannong launches herbicide Flexo in Philippines
Three Syngenta turf solutions now registered for use in California

: 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

The Climate Corporation expands digital solutions for Canadian farmers through two new ag tech partnerships
Land O'Lakes SUSTAIN, AGCO work together to deploy cutting-edge equipment

The Climate Corporation expands digital solutions for Canadian farmers through two new ag tech partnerships
Land O'Lakes SUSTAIN, AGCO work together to deploy cutting-edge equipment

: 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

Syngenta crop protection sales flat in H1 2019
Nissan Chemical’s agricultural chemicals segment sales up 8% in FY 2018

Syngenta crop protection sales flat in H1 2019
Nissan Chemical’s agricultural chemicals segment sales up 8% in FY 2018

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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