BASF has increased the combined peak annual sales potential of its range of new active ingredients by €400 million ($518 million at the current rate) to €2,800 million ($3,625 million). The upward ...
Bayer CropScience has filed another US lawsuit against Dow AgroSciences over alleged patent infringement involving herbicide tolerance in genetically modified crops. The latest suit accuses Dow of ...
BASF is to shift the headquarters of its plant biotechnology operations to the US and cease commercialisation of genetically modified crops aimed specifically at the European market. The move ...
The EPA has proposed the first US registrations of Kumiai Chemical’s herbicide, pyroxasulfone, for use on maize and non-crop areas. The original registration application included use on soybeans and ...
United Phosphorus recorded an increase of 63.1% in agrochemical sales to Rs 17,013 million ($333 million at the current rate) in its third quarter ended December 31st 2011. Agrochemicals accounted ...
Syngenta has decided not to commercialise Canadian company Innovotech’s (Edmonton, Alberta) bactericidal seed treatment, Agress (oxysilver nitrate). Syngenta agreed to conduct North American trials ...
Indian agrochemical company Excel Crop Care (Mumbai) was able to stem the decline suffered in the first two quarters of its current fiscal year by recording an 8.4% rise in revenues to Rs 1,669.8 ...
The US EPA has established a tolerance exemption for the biofungicide, Trichoderma virens strain G-41, for all food commodities. The Agency proposed the approval of two products from biopesticide ...
Brazilian orange juice exporters have called on the Ministry of Agriculture to request the US authorities to agree a phase-out of use of carbendazim on oranges destined for export to the country. ...
The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) has extended its suspension of short-chain ester forms of the phenoxy herbicide, 2,4-D, until January 31st 2013. Under the ...
Researchers at the US University of Nebraska (Lincoln) have confirmed the presence of glyphosate-resistant kochia (Kochia scoparia) in the state. Field reports in 2011 indicated that there might be ...
Brazilian import authorities have disqualified Argentine agrochemical company Atanor’s (Buenos Aires) certificate of origin for imports of its glyphosate herbicide. Brazil and Mercosur customs union ...
The latest version of proposals to allow national bans on the cultivation of EU-approved genetically modified crops suggests that deals could be reached with companies to exclude countries from their ...
The European Commission is free to go ahead with its proposed approvals of four genetically modified soybean lines after an appeal committee in January failed to agree on whether to accept or reject ...
Researchers have reported successful field trials of genetically modified virus-resistant potatoes in Argentina. They are resistant to potato virus Y, transmitted by insects, Argentine biotechnology ...
Monsanto has declared that it does not intendto market genetically modified insect-resistant MON810 maize seed in France so long as the country does not have a regulatory approach based on science, ...
