A partial ban on chlorpyrifos would be paired with more money to train pesticide applicators and help growers find alternatives to the widely used but besieged chemical, under a bill passed Monday by the Washington Senate. The bill’s prime sponsor, Bainbridge Island Democrat Christine Rolfes, acknowledged giving up chlorpyrifos would be hard for some farmers. […]
The next 10 years could bring very little in the way of increased net return on corn and soybeans, according to the USDA’s long-term projections released Friday. In its report, USDA made projections that go out to 2029. The projections in this report were prepared during July 2019 through January 2020, according to the USDA. […]
The Government approved a regulation that strengthens the powers, functions of supervision, sanction and the rectory of SENASA (National Agrarian Health Service) in terms of agricultural health and registration and the control of pesticides for agricultural use. The Legislative Decree No. 1387 includes the safety of agricultural food production and primary processing, including feed, as […]
Uruguay prohibited the importation, registration and renewal of agrochemical products based on fenthion. The decision was made by the General Directorate of Agricultural Services of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries. According to Federico Montes (Director of the General Directorate), the ban is due to the fact that the product is potentially harmful to […]
The current efforts to combat the new coronavirus epidemic has become the primary task of the Chinese government and people, and production and economic activities across the country have been seriously affected. At the start of February, AgroPages conducted research on Chinese agrochemical companies showing that Chinese pesticide production is currentlybasically stable,especially several major varieties. […]
Pakistan is likely to import insecticides from arch-rival India to brace itself for any locust attacks this summer, bypassing a ban on trade between the neighbouring nations. A copy of Cabinet agenda for a Tuesday meeting seen has the import option on it. Pakistan severed all diplomatic and trade ties with New Delhi in August […]
At the start of February, the Brazilian Government formalized the dismissal of Carlos Ramos Venâncio (General Coordinator of the Department of Plant Health and Agricultural Inputs at the Agriculture Defense Secretariat of the Ministry of Agriculture, MAPA). Bruno Cavalheiro Breitenbach, who was substitute coordinator, took his place. Venâncio was in charge of the registration of […]
Amid a long-lasting debate on the do and don’t of pesticides, the central government has decided to encourage and promote safer use of pesticides. Keeping this in mind, the bill seeking to promote safe and effective pesticides will be introduced in the current session of Parliament, the government said on Wednesday after a cabinet meeting. […]
The government of the province of La Pampa canceled the ban on the marketing of agrochemicals, which had been in force for two weeks. The decision was taken after they accused the Campo Limpio Foundation, responsible for the reverse logistics of empty containers, of not carrying out Temporary Storage Centers (CAT). The Undersecretary of Environment […]