Month: April 2018

The Brazilian agrochemical market has been increasing its concentration on large international companies, to a point that it would transform into something worse than an “oligopoly”. This is the assessment of the executive-director of the Brazilian Association of Generic Pesticides, agronomist Tulio Teixeira de Oliveira. “When the market is dominated by few competitors, we denominate… Continue reading Brazilian market expands concentration of large agrochemical companies

Keywords: tomato A wild tomato species from the Galapagos Islands has been discovered by scientists from Wageningen University & Research to be resistant to a wide range of pest insects. This species is closely related to the cultivated tomato, making the resilience easier to interbreed into the latter and ultimately making it resistant to many… Continue reading Scientists discovered a wild tomato which resistant to many insects

Keywords: wheat Early this month, a new genetic directory launched will enable researchers and breeders to scan the genomes of wild relatives of modern wheat to find disease-fighting properties lost to domestication. The time-travelling trawl is possible following the launch of Open Wild Wheat, a directory which includes the genetic sequences of 150 wild wheats… Continue reading New genomic tool searches wheat’s wild past to improve crops of the future

Next month (May 2018), Midwest Seed Coating will begin production in New Albany, Indiana. This facility will focus on custom seed coatings for forages, turf and forage legumes. Bill Talley, Midwest Seed Coating president, says increased demand for high quality seed coatings is behind this state-of-the-art production facility. This particular location will allow us to… Continue reading Midwest Seed Coating to open New Seed Coating Facility

Keywords: maize A new maize variety is expected to combat food scarcity in Geita, Tanzania where pests and drought ravage crops. Geita District Agriculture officer John Kengele says the plan in 2016/17 was to cultivate 91,045 hectares of cereal crops and 38,500 hectares of leguminous plants. But only 83,862 hectares of cereal crops were grown and… Continue reading Tanzania: New maize seeds impress farmers as yields improve

Keywords: corn, soybean Drought conditions in Argentina are putting severe stress on corn and soybean crops, which are in the critical development stages. “We saw a high variability on the aspects of the crops associated with rain distribution, plots management, soil quality and previous crops,” said Ignacio Greco, broker and agronomist at Mercoplate S.A., a… Continue reading Drought severely stresses Argentina corn, soybeans

It was learned from the Central Branch of the People’s Bank of China in Zhengzhou that since the beginning of this year, the bank has issued guidance on how to perform financial services for spring plowing and seeding, in order to promote the tilt of financial resources to rural areas, build a diversified spring land… Continue reading Henan Province Disbursed 4.704 Billion Spring Lodging Ready Loans

Keywords: GM crop, maize Insects can be both helpful and harmful to farmers growing crops. In the case of the highly invasive Fall Armyworm, they’re devastating and destructive. With no effective natural predators, this pest rapidly reproduces and causes significant crop damage, reducing the yields needed to meet a growing demand for food, fuel and… Continue reading Bt Technology helps protect crops from fall armyworm

Keywords: agriculture On 28 March, USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue announced that “USDA does not regulate or have any plans to regulate plants that could otherwise have been developed through traditional breeding techniques as long as they are not plant pests or developed using plant pests.” This is a big deal and a very good thing. While it… Continue reading Why the USDA decided not to over-regulate CRISPR crops—and what it means for agriculture’s future

As a cotton cultivation area, Aksu District plans to reduce the cotton planting area in 2018. By optimizing the regional layout and variety structure of cotton, it will continue to increase the structural reforms on the agricultural supply side, realize the quality improvement of the cotton industry, increase the income of cotton farmers, and consolidate… Continue reading Akesu region plans to compress 700,000 acres of cotton planting area in 2018