Month: November 2017

Keywords: Water use, Drought-tolerant hybrids, Dryland Risk management is the name of the game when it comes to growing dryland sorghum and corn, which both offer cropping alternatives “when and if” conditions are right, according to recent Texas A&M AgriLife studies. Side-by-side dryland grain sorghum and dryland corn studies were planted this past season at the… Continue reading USA: Water use, drought-tolerant hybrids still key to dryland crop production

On November 20th, this year’s first confirmed case of soybean rust was identified in the municipality of Itabera in the state of Sao Paulo. The rust was found in a field planted as soon as the soybean-free period ended on September 15th. Since then, there have been two more cases of rust confirmed in western… Continue reading This year’s first case of soybean rust in commercial fields confirmed in Brazil

Recently, the introduction and cultivation of winter jujube in Northwest A & F University were held in Wubei County, Shaanxi Province. The team of Professor Wang Youke, a national water-saving irrigation Yangling Engineering and Technology Research Center, successfully introduced jujube in northern Shaanxi and moved the planting area of jujube in Shaanxi northward by nearly… Continue reading Winter jujube moved north fill North Shaanxi planting blank

On November 25, the Ministry of Agriculture held a pilot implementation meeting of the arable land fallow system in Beijing to summarize the effectiveness of the pilot project of arable land rotation in the arable land and the deployment and arrangement of next key tasks. Vice Minister of Agriculture Yu Xinrong attended the meeting and… Continue reading Ministry of Agriculture: Quickly Promote the Normalization of Arable Land Rotation and Institutionalization

In the just-held 33rd China Plant Protection “Double Rendezvous”, digitization and precision became attractive. Although these have been mentioned for many years, but this year a number of corporate events and exhibition dynamic point of view, has begun to enter the actual operation stage. The future development trend of agriculture must be digital and accurate.… Continue reading Agriculture is moving towards digitization and precision

Keywords: Corn, Strait, Stacks Tim Dahl plunges a shovel into the soil to remove a firmly rooted cornstalk while checking root structure. “Hear those roots popping?” asks the Syngenta agronomic service representative. Even though this field is corn-on-corn, the corn’s root system is well protected by root-resistant traits and a soil-applied insecticide , he says. The… Continue reading The future of corn traits and stacks

Keywords: organic farming,India,agriculture Reiterating the government’s resolve of according a high priority to food security, Chief Minister of India Andhra Pradesh state, N Chandrababu Naidu, on Wednesday said that many initiatives had been undertaken to improve the organic farming in the State. Inaugurating the first edition of the three-day AP AgriTech-Summit (Agri Hackathon) in Visakhapatnam at the APIIC… Continue reading India Andhra Pradesh state plans big to promote organic farming

On November 15, the International Patent Planting Rights Application Platform was launched in China. PRISMA is the online application system of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV), which was completed in January this year. It aims to facilitate breeders applying for variety rights protection in different countries and regions.… Continue reading Plant variety rights international application platform started in our country

Keywords: Monsanto, White maize cultivar, Kenya At the beginning of the year, Monsanto launched DK777, a pest-resistant white maize cultivar, in Kenya. This cultivar was now also being released in Zambia and Malawi. It would be commercialised in Nigeria and Tanzania in 2018, pending their respective national variety listing processes. The cultivar had the potential to… Continue reading New seed variety promises to boost maize production in Africa

Keywords: Kenyan, Striga resistance genes, Sorghum Wild sorghum will soon provide a reservoir for resistance genes against Striga. A research team is lead by Dr. Steven Runo of the Plant Transformation Laboratory (PTL) at Kenyatta University and Professor Michael Timko of University of Virginia. They has identified three wild sorghum accessions resistant to Striga hermonthica (witchweed).… Continue reading Kenyan scientists find new Striga resistance genes in wild sorghum