Six states on high alert as govt warns of more locust swarms

More swarms of crop-eating locusts are likely to migrate from Somalia to the summer breeding areas along the India-Pakistan border, the agriculture ministry has said in a statement, prompting officials in six most “at-risk” states to be…

US EPA Proposes Registration of Pesticide Containing New Microbial Active Ingredient

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is opening a 15-day comment period on a proposal to register a pesticide product, Vintec, that contains the new microbial active ingredient Trichoderma atroviride strain SC1 (T. atroviride SC1). T.…

Canada proposes MRLs for azoxystrobin residues in berry fruits

On June 3, 2020, Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulation Agency (PMRA) notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) that the proposed MRLs for Azoxystrobin are to be implemented in berry fruits. Azoxystrobin [methyl (E)-2-{2-[6-(2-cyanophenoxy)-pyrimidin-4-yloxy]phenyl}-3-methoxyacrilate]…

Correction - Top 20 agricultural countries who produced coarse grain, oilseed, cottonseed in 2018/19

The top 20 agricultural producing countries in the world are the top performers in world agriculture - a vital element for world livelihood. Agriculture is one of the indispensable sectors of the world economy which is not only one of the highest…

Proposed ban on 27 pesticides: Anxious agrochem industry drawing up legal strategy

The agrochemical industry, worried by the proposed ban on 27 pesticides by the Centre, is drawing up a legal strategy to counter it. However, internal documents prepared by industry experts show that continued manufacture of four pesticides…

Últimos días para presentar la solicitud única de ayudas de la PAC para 2020

Los agricultores y ganaderos españoles disponen hasta el próximo 15 de junio para presentar la solicitud única de ayudas de la Política Agraria Común (PAC) y, en su caso, la solicitud de acceso a la reserva nacional de derechos de pago…

US EPA responds to Ninth Circuit Vacatur of dicamba registrations

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler released the following statement on the Ninth Circuit Vacatur of dicamba registrations: "We are disappointed with the decision. The 2020 growing season is well underway…

Asia loses market share, Europe sells more agrochemicals to Brazil in 2020

The import of agrochemicals from the Asian continent lost its market share in Brazil, with a decrease of 40% of the products purchased from China in this first quarter of 2020. On the other hand, European exports to Brazil continued to expand,…

US EPA proposes registration of new agricultural fungicide active ingredient inpyrfluxam

U.S. EPA is opening a 30-day comment period on its proposal to register the new active ingredient inpyrfluxam. Inpyrfluxam is a pyrazolecarboxamide fungicide proposed for foliar and seed treatment agricultural uses. The chemical provides…