The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation of Peru (MINAGRI) declared a phytosanitary alert to prevent the entry of the fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. Cuban Race 4 Tropical (FocR4T), one of the most devastating pests that could affect more than 170,000 cultivated hectares of bananas in the country. The Resolution 0175-2019 states that SENASA (National […]
The strongest pesticides used to counter locust invasions will leech into waterbodies and crops, say experts. Lethal pesticides used to counter locust swarms invading the Indian side of the Thar desert will irrevocablly harm the fragile desert ecology, experts have said. As there was no co-ordination with Pakistan when the swarms first invaded its side […]
Health Canada has completed the re-evaluation of plant growth regulator uniconazole-P. Under the authority of the Pest Control Products Act, Health Canada has determined that continued registration of products containing uniconazole-P is acceptable. An evaluation of available scientific information found that most uses of uniconazole-P products meet current standards for protection of human health and […]
The Constitutional Council of France on January 31 ratified the legal veto on the production, storage, circulation and export of products containing active substances that have not been approved by the European Union (EU). The ruling resulted from a lawsuit by the association of producers and the French Seeds Union, which claimed that the ban […]
The European Commission (EC) adopted on Monday, February 3, two decisions that prohibit Romania and Lithuania from allowing their farmers to use pesticides that are harmful to bees. The EC’s decision came two weeks after Romania’s Agriculture Ministry granted an emergency authorization for local farmers to use pesticides known as neonicotinoids for treating corn and […]
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is initiating a reassessment of the plant growth regulator hydrogen cyanamide, and is now seeking information on how and where it is being used in New Zealand. Hydrogen cyanamide products are used in New Zealand mainly by orchardists, particularly kiwifruit and apple growers, to promote bud formation. In September 2019 […]
Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in Northwest China continued to be the country’s largest cotton production base in 2019, despite a year-on-year output reduction of 2.1 percent. The region’s cotton output reached more than 5 million metric tons last year, representing 84.9 percent of the country’s total, up 1.1 percentage points when compared with last year’s […]
Swarms of desert locusts could ravage more countries in eastern Africa and threaten the livelihood of many more people, the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said on Monday. The swarms, first sighted in December, have already destroyed tens of thousands of hectares (acres) of farmland in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, threatening food supplies […]
Brazil closed 2019 for the first time, with US$1 billion in fruit exports, according to information from the Ministry of Agriculture’s (AgroStat) foreign trade statistics system. According to the National Supply Company (Conab), this scenario will continue in 2020, when the sector will focus on China, which should start importing fresh fruit from Brazil, especially […]