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Netafim launches Streamline X ReGen

Date：Apr. 1, 2019 Category：Products
Netafim Ltd.

Netafim's Streamline X ReGen reduces labor costs, improves crop uniformity, eliminates the spread of soil-borne pathogens and supports the supply chain sustaina...
Brazil: Subsidy for Rural Insurance Premium allowed insuring R$ 12.6 billion in 2018

Date：Apr. 1, 2019 Category：Markets

The balance of the Rural Insurance Premium (PSR) Grant Program executed in 2018, available on the website of the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock an...
Walmart Foundation to help introduce sustainable irrigation project for India farmer

Date：Mar. 29, 2019 Category：Markets

As many as ten thousand smallholder farmers in Andhra Pradesh will soon get benefit from the introduction of sustainable irrigation products & practices, under ...
Hummingbird Technologies: Application of Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence in Precision Agriculture

Date：Mar. 29, 2019 Category：Companies

Hummingbird Technologies is an artificial intelligence business, powered by machine learning and computer vision techniques. We use imagery and data analytics f...

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2018/19 Brazilian Soybean Crop approaching 70% Harvested

Date：Mar. 28, 2019 Category：Markets

The Brazilian soybean crop is 68% harvested compared to 65% last year and 64% for the 5-year average according to Safras & Mercado.
Brazilian Safrinha Corn in Good Condition, Dryness Worries

Date：Mar. 28, 2019 Category：Markets

The forecast for this week in southern Brazil is calling for generally dry weather and cooler temperatures.The forecast for next week also looks dryer than norm...
India basmati rice industry expected to achieve highest ever exports in FY19 and FY20

Date：Mar. 28, 2019 Category：Markets

The Indian Basmati rice industry is on the verge of clocking its highest ever exports of around Rs30,000cr in FY19 (previous high of Rs29,300cr in FY14). The gr...
Agriculture Department Organizes Farmers’ Conference

Date：Mar. 28, 2019 Category：Markets

The Agriculture Department, Jammu conducted a daylong farmers’ conference-cum-exhibition, under centrally sponsored PMKSY scheme with the aim to educate and te...
Bank of Baroda to Develop Digital Agriculture Platform for India Farmers

Date：Mar. 27, 2019 Category：Markets

According to latest reports, Bank of Baroda has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the agriculture services companies in order to create an agricul...
China makes significant purchase of US corn

Date：Mar. 26, 2019 Category：Markets

Rumors that China would make a significant corn purchase finally panned out last Friday when the USDA announced an export sale of 300,000 metric tons to Chinese...
Farm Futures releases its planting survey results, corn acreage less than USDA'S projection

Date：Mar. 26, 2019 Category：Markets

After planting more soybeans than corn in 2018 for the first time in 35 years, farmers want to return to more normal rotations this spring, according to Farm Fu...
Digital model helps get right corn seed at right rate on right acres

Date：Mar. 26, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

This year, it’s looking like planting is going to be late. And potentially cold. And definitely wet. The end of March is usually a time for farmers to be getti...

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India’s Tea Exports could Shrink due to Tough Competition from Kenya

Date：Mar. 26, 2019 Category：Markets

Tea exports from India could shrink this year as a bumper crop in Kenya increases the risk of oversupply.
India Foodgrain Production to 281 million Tonnes in 2018-19

Date：Mar. 26, 2019 Category：Markets

The government on Thursday declared that total food grain production in India is estimated at 281.37 million tonnes during 2018-19 as compared to 277.49 millio...
India:Farmers Groups to Start Inter-State Exposure Visit

Date：Mar. 25, 2019 Category：Markets

Director Agriculture Jammu, P.S Rathore from the Directorate of Agriculture, Krishi Bhawan, Jammu has flagged off an inter-state exposure visit of 25 farmers fr...
BioSTL receives grant to launch new agtech solution validation program

Date：Mar. 25, 2019 Category：Companies
BioSTL

With the help of a $100,000 grant from the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2), BioSTL is moving forward with a first-of-its-kind solution for moving Agtech ...
Bayer teams with IICA, ABRAS to promote training of farmers on traceability processes

Date：Mar. 25, 2019 Category：Companies

With the objective of supporting farmers in carrying out traceability processes in agricultural production, Bayer, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation ...
Q&A with Arama Kukutai: How advances in AgTech are reshaping farming

Date：Mar. 22, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview

Activity in the agtech sector has skyrocketed over the last five years—marking its arrival as an important piece of the venture capital ecosystem, according to...
Bayer,IFC, Netafim and Swiss Re Corporate Solutions:Creating a Better Life for Indian Smallholder Farmers

Date：Mar. 22, 2019 Category：Markets

With an objective to provide holistic and innovative solutions for smallholder farmers in developing economies, Bayer, International Finance Corporation (IFC, a...
USDA Issues "Agricultural Projections to 2028" Outlook Report

Date：Mar. 22, 2019 Category：Markets

USDA's 10-year projections for the food and agriculture sector cover major agricultural commodities, agricultural trade, and aggregate indicators of the U.S. fa...
Jamie Mattikow named President and CEO of W. Atlee Burpee Company

Date：Mar. 22, 2019 Category：Companies

W. Atlee Burpee Company, the largest home gardening company in the U.S.A, has named James (Jamie) Mattikow, President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Mattikow...
Japan seeks to harness drones for agriculture

Date：Mar. 21, 2019 Category：Markets

The agriculture ministry has unveiled a plan to promote the spread of drones for agriculture to cope with the aging of farmers and shortages of successors of fa...
Sentera Announces Real-Time Analytics for FieldAgent

Date：Mar. 21, 2019 Category：Companies
Sentera LLC

Sentera FieldAgent now delivers instant plant population and weed pressure reports in the FieldAgent™ mobile app, while the drone is still in flight. Agricultu...
Dacom Farm Intelligence Adds Iteris ClearAg to Crop Management Platform

Date：Mar. 21, 2019 Category：Companies
Iteris, Inc.

Iteris, Inc. and Dacom Farm Intelligence (Dacom) have announced the addition of Iteris ClearAg® to Dacom’s crop management platform.

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Dr. Adrian Percy Joins Finistere Ventures as CTO

Date：Mar. 21, 2019 Category：Companies
Finistere Ventures,LLC

Industry luminary Adrian Percy, PhD, the former head of R&D for the Crop Science Division of Bayer, joined Finistere Ventures as Chief Technology Officer. In hi...
The Yield Lab issues white paper on Agtech ecosystems

Date：Mar. 21, 2019 Category：Markets

Agtech has been a buzzword in the ag world since 2011, and the industry really began to attract interest after Monsanto's acquisition of Climate Corp in 2013. A...
Five Good Questions: Young Kim, CEO, Digital Harvest

Date：Mar. 20, 2019 Category：Viewpoint & Interview
Digital Harvest

Digital Harvest is a data science company, exclusively focusing on agriculture. As Chief Executive Officer of Digital Harvest, Young Kim applies his 20+ years o...
Grogan joins GROWMARK Corporate Relations team

Date：Mar. 20, 2019 Category：Companies
GROWMARK, Inc.

Chris Grogan is the new Publications and Media Relations Manager at GROWMARK. He takes over for Matt Wettersten who accepted a position as Audio Visual Manager ...
ADM, Cargill launch Grainbridge focused on digital grain marketing

Date：Mar. 19, 2019 Category：Companies
Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)

ADM (Archer Daniels Midland Company) and Cargill, Inc., are joining forces to develop Grainbridge, LLC. The technology joint venture will provide grain marketin...
Syngenta Ventures announces new leadership

Date：Mar. 19, 2019 Category：Companies
Syngenta Ventures

Syngenta Ventures announced recently new leadership for its global team. Corey Huck, head of Biologicals & Syngenta Ventures, now heads up the global Ventures t...

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: 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