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2020 Acreage: Winter Wheat Bats First

Winter Wheat Earlier this year, the USDA estimated U.S. winter wheat acres at 30.8 million acres. This represents a modest decline in acres from 2018 levels (355,000 acres fewer) but underpins the broader trend of fewer U.S. wheat acres.…

IMD predicts unseasonal rain and hailstorms in North India

Farmers in northern India should prepare for crop damage because of unseasonal rain and hailstorms, India’s official weather forecaster said on Tuesday, bringing the first bit of bad news for winter-sown or rabi crops after a long spell of…

Unseasonal rain and hailstorm damage crops across 3 states

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…

Novel Coronavirus | Hubei’s higher proportion of the phosphorus chemical industry and pesticide production being affected by the epidemic

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…

Chinese locust control team in Pakistan to help fight worst locust plague in 27 years

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,…

Coronavirus could put India Inc in a spot if outbreak prolongs: Crisil

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…

PAU develops 7 crop varieties

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…

India may look beyond China for DAP needs

The ongoing lockdown of Hubei province, a key producer in China’s huge fertiliser industry, is spurring the biggest buyer of one of the crop-growing ingredients to look for other suppliers. India is the world’s biggest buyer of diammonium…

Coronavirus may affect Brazil’s importation of agri-inputs

The spread of coronavirus represents a problem for the exportation of commodities from Brazil, mainly in terms of products exported to China, which account for 32% of Brazil’s foreign sales in the agribusiness sector. However, concerns…