Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA), under the authority of the Pest Control Products Act, is granting registration for the sale and use of Cyantraniliprole Technical and Ference Insecticide, containing the technical grade active ingredient cyantraniliprole, to control or supress a variety of insects on turf (golf courses and sod farms only), outdoor ornamentals […]
A task force of companies that manufacture the herbicide, paraquat, is mobilizing to try to reverse the decision of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) to ban the product in Brazil from September 2020. To achieve this, the group is preparing studies that will aim to counter claims that the active ingredient is mutagenic and […]
New Jersey lawmakers could soon reclassify and restrict the use of a powerful insecticide that’s commonly used on golf courses and lawns across the Garden State but is linked to the dramatic decline of the bee population. Bees help pollinate flowers and are necessary for growing fruits and vegetables. And the chemical is also being […]
Unseasonal rains with hailstorm over the past two days have caused massive damage to crops at several places in Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh, officials said. According to Bihar government officials, rain and hailstorm in parts of south and north Bihar adjacent to Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday damaged flowering and fruiting oilseed, pulses, vegetables, tobacco […]
The outbreak of the new coronavirus during the Spring Festival has surely had an impact on the Chinese economy. While efforts are being made across the country to fight the epidemic, the delay of the resumption of production, the blocked logistics and the stagnated consumption brought about by the epidemic prevention and control measures have […]
After the outbreak of the largest locust plague in Pakistan in the past 27 years, on February 24, the Chinese government sent a locust infestation control work team consisting of top Chinese locust control experts to Karachi on a field visit, to discuss locust control measures and the support program. Xu Yubo, director of the […]
India’s agro chemicals industry can survive coronavirus headwinds to some extent in the near term, but businesses will face significant pressures as inventories run down, Crisil said in a report on last Thursday. “…Overall, that would eventually result in more sectors being negatively impacted, outweighing the positives. Credit profiles of firms in select sectors could […]
The EU has brushed aside charges made by countries including India at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against its extremely low maximum residue level (MRL) limits for pesticides in food products. The low MRL limits are alleged to create non-tariff barriers for exports. In a recent review meeting of its trade policy at the WTO, […]
Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, has developed and recommended seven new and improved varieties of crops. These include PR-128, PR-129 and HKR-47 of paddy, J-1007 fodder maize, J-87 groundnut, JC-12 maize and PCB-165 of bajra. The varieties of the crops were approved during a meeting of the State Variety Approval Committee which was held recently under […]