COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2019/1085 of 25 June 2019 renewing the approval of the active substance 1-methylcyclopropene, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011, and amending […]
Following a legal letter from Leigh Day on behalf of CHEM Trust, the UK Government have announced that they will re-instate a ban on pesticides with endocrine (hormone) disrupting properties in their no-deal Brexit laws. The Government are claiming this is a drafting error, yet this European ban on endocrine disrupting pesticides has been a […]
Recent rains have slowed the harvest of soybeans and corn in Argentina as well as the planting of the winter wheat crop. According to the Grain Exchange of Buenos Aires, the 2018/19 soybean crop is 99.1% harvested with 150,000 hectares left to harvest in southern Buenos Aires province and in northern Chaco province. In the […]
Costa Rica’s Ministry of Health announced that it will restrict the use of glyphosate in some sectors of the country and that there will be new regulations in other parts, because of how toxic this product is for humans. According to the Minister of Health of Costa Rica, Daniel Salas, glyphosate, which is a herbicide widely used […]
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2019/989 of 17 June 2019 concerning the non-renewal of approval of the active substance chlorpropham, in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market, and amending the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 540/2011 (Text […]
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) of Brazil registered 31 agrochemicals in May (see list here). In total, 169 products were authorized in 2019, representing 37.5% of what was released in 2018, when 450 products received a commercial license from the Brazilian government. However, in 2019, no new active ingredient was approved. Of […]
Grain companies in Brazil, who are members of the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (Abiove), have indicated that they intend to reduce the amount of credit offered to farmers for producing crops during the 2019/20 growing season. The grain companies provide about one third of the credit that Brazilian farmers use to produce their […]
Despite challenges of climate change and adversarial environmental conditions, India will be able to achieve 291 million tonne of food grain target for 2019-20. This was predicted by Dr S K Malhotra, agriculture commissioner, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare at an event on Strengthening Smart Food Chain for Sustainable Production and Exports under aegis […]
The US Environmental Protection Agency is taking another stab at revising its process for assessing the risks of pesticides to endangered species. The move comes after manufacturers of three organophosphate insecticides urged the agency to abandon an approach established in 2015. The EPA used the method to evaluate chlorpyrifos, diazinon, and malathion. During the final […]