French crop protection company De Sangosse (Agen) and Czech biopesticide firm Biopreparáty (Prague) have agreed an exclusive deal for the development and distribution of the Czech company’s biofungicide, Polyversum (Pythium oligandrum M1). De Sangosse will be the exclusive distributor for the product in France, Germany and the UK, where it will develop, register and market it. The company’s marketing director, Christophe Maquin, says that the product will be developed for use on various crops, ...

DuPont has granted Syngenta a global licence to develop products based on DuPont’s new fungicide, oxathiapiprolin, while Syngenta has awarded DuPont exclusive access to its fungicide, benzovindiflupyr (trade-marked as Solatenol), for use in mixtures with DuPont’s fungicide, picoxystrobin, on soybeans and other crops in Brazil. Syngenta gains exclusive rights for foliar and soil uses of oxathiapiprolin on all crops in North America and for lawn and garden uses globally. It also secures ...

Arysta LifeScience and US-based, UK-listed bioproducts company Plant Health Care (PHC – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) have agreed a product development and licence agreement for use of PHC’s proprietary Harpin αβ technology. Arysta will develop and commercialise the technology in several crops and markets in combination with a number of its foliar products. Sales of the first combination product are anticipated in the US following registration in time for the 2014 use season. The companies cite ...

Bayer CropScience and Dutch agricultural biotechnology company, KeyGene (Wageningen), have signed a multi-year research co-operation agreement to develop crops with improved traits. KeyGene is to identify genes associated with key traits such as drought tolerance in wheat through its KeySeeQ trait discovery technology. Candidate genes will then be improved using the Dutch company’s proprietary KeyPoint high-throughput mutagenesis method. Bayer will transfer improved candidate genes into new ...

One cannot help but notice the informality and openness among Makhteshim-Agan Industries’ (MAI) top management. The simplicity that is an intrinsic part of the company philosophy of “creating simplicity in agriculture” is also quite evident in interactions with president and chief executive officer Erez Vigodman. ChemChina’s acquisition of a 60% stake in MAI in October last year occupied quite a bit of space in Agrow’s news coverage and I decided to meet the company’s management to get an ...

Agro-Kanesho (Japan) purchased the site of Bayer CropScience’s Yuki Research Center in Japan. US biopesticide company AgraQuest entered into Latin American distribution deals for its biofungicide, Sonata (Bacillus pumilus strain QST 2808), with Guatemalan distributor DuWest and Ecuadorean company Interoc. Belgian agrochemical company Agriphar agreed to acquire Spanish pesticide distributor Laboratorios-Alcotán. American Vanguard appointed Mitsui & Co subsidiary Certis Europe as the primary ...

The UK agrochemical development company, Eden Research (Finstock, Oxfordshire), has entered into a regional licensing agreement with Environmental Solutions North Africa (ESNA) for Eden’s terpene-based pesticides. The deal covers professional applications in Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. ESNA has agreed to pay Eden £170,000 ($255,000) plus royalty payments once sales begin. ESNA will bear the cost of obtaining product registrations, which will benefit ...