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Strong year end for Dow AgroSciences
04 February 2010

Dow AgroSciences recorded “double-digit” agrochemical sales growth in the fourth quarter of 2009. That was partly due to a resumption of crop planting in Brazil after a pause in the prior quarter. ...

Brazil agchem dollar sales down 8% in 2009...
More new ais to go on EU Annex I...
Insecticides boost DuPont's fourth quarter
28 January 2010

Increased demand for insecticides in Latin America and the Asia/Pacific region boosted DuPont ’s crop protection volume sales by 5% in the fourth quarter of 2009. Revenues increased “modestly” due to ...

Monsanto wins first round of DuPont dispute
19 January 2010

A US court has ruled that DuPont and its seed subsidiary, Pioneer Hi-Bred International , are not licensed to stack their Optimum GAT trait with Monsanto’s Roundup Ready trait in genetically modified ...

BASF gets first Initium approval
12 January 2010

BASF has been granted the first approval for its fungicide, Initium (ametoctradin). Romania granted the approval in record time, BASF says. The triazolopyrimidine fungicide is to be sold as Enervin ...

 
Sumitomo expands Olyset Net output
05 February 2010

Sumitomo Chemical has expanded annual production capacity of its permethrin insecticide-impregnated Olyset Net mosquito nets at a contract manufacturer in Vietnam. Capacity has been increased by 5.5 ...

Glyphosate crash causes dip in Monsanto's growth plans - upd...
Exceptional growth for agrochemical majors in 2008...
Valent USA sets up biorational business unit
05 February 2010

Sumitomo Chemical’s US subsidiary, Valent USA Corporation (Walnut Creek, California), has established a biorational business unit. The move is aimed at meeting customer needs for traditional ...

MAI issues profit warning
05 February 2010

Makhteshim-Agan Industries (MAI) expects a net loss of $30 million for the final quarter of 2009, compared with net income of $8.7 million in the same period a year earlier. Preliminary results show ...

Strong year end for Dow AgroSciences
04 February 2010

Dow AgroSciences recorded “double-digit” agrochemical sales growth in the fourth quarter of 2009. That was partly due to a resumption of crop planting in Brazil after a pause in the prior quarter. ...

 
EU proposes to maintain duty relief on glyphosate imports
08 February 2010

The European Commission has proposed to extend the current suspension of anti-dumping measures on imports of the herbicide, glyphosate, from China for one year. The Commission originally suspended ...

MAI Q3 sales plunge by a third...
EU extends suspension of napropamide phase-out...
Australia cuts carbendazim use
08 February 2010

The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) has suspended the use of the fungicide, carbendazim, on turf and several horticultural crops because of concerns to human health. ...

US EUP request from Fine Agrochemicals
08 February 2010

The US EPA has received an application for an experimental use permit (EUP) from UK plant growth regulator (PGR) specialist Fine Agrochemicals (Worcester). The company wants to test the PGR, ...

Sumitomo expands Olyset Net output
05 February 2010

Sumitomo Chemical has expanded annual production capacity of its permethrin insecticide-impregnated Olyset Net mosquito nets at a contract manufacturer in Vietnam. Capacity has been increased by 5.5 ...

 
Brazil ratifies BASF/Embrapa GM soy
08 February 2010

Brazil has confirmed the approval of the “first Brazilian” genetically modified crop. BASF and Brazilian agricultural research corporation, the Embrapa, jointly developed the imidazolinone ...

South Americans warm to BASF Brazil GMO...
GMOs dominate in major Brazilian states...
Ukraine to limit GMO labelling
05 February 2010

The Ukraine government has proposed that only food products containing genetically modified organisms should carry labelling on the issue, noting its content, the English language Ukraine newspaper, ...

Brazil sorts stored soy for GMO royalties
05 February 2010

Brazilian farmers will not be liable for royalty payments for conventional soybeans stored in the same silo as genetically modified varieties. Two farmer federations, the Famasul and the CNA, have ...

EFSA rejects Madeira GMO-free bid
03 February 2010

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has concluded that no new scientific evidence was presented to justify a bid by the Portuguese autonomous region, Madeira, to declare itself free of ...

 
Pioneer Hi-Bred International DuPont seed subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred International has appointed Dr Jerry Flint as senior ...
Valent USA Corporation Sumitomo Chemical’s US subsidiary, Valent USA Corporation (Walnut Creek, California), has appointed ...
Biobest Belgian biological pest control company Biobest (Westerlo) has appointed Dr Felix Wäckers as its ...
 
Annual review Latin America - Smooth sailing for GMOs in a turbulent year
15 January 2010
Robert Birkett

Declining sales hit Latin America’s crop protection market in the face of the world’s financial meltdown, dented agricultural commodity prices, currency factors and severe weather conditions. Credit fears in Brazil were largely overcome but currency weakness there and drought in Argentina impacted ...

Annual review: Company mergers, acquisitions and deals in 2009
15 January 2010
Andy Beer

Agform (UK) and Rotam (China) signed an exclusive deal for Rotam to distribute Agform’s products. Arysta LifeScience entered into a 20-year global licensing deal for Plant Impact’s (UK) essential oil-based insecticide, BugOil. Arysta LifeScience licensed its cereal herbicide, ...

Annual review Europe - Emergence of a new regulatory landscape
15 January 2010
Sanjiv Rana

The long debated, much dreaded new EU rules governing the registration and use of agrochemicals finally fell into place in 2009. The development of the new registration Regulation has been quite tortuous over the last few years, but unlike 2008, the debate over the sagacity of the rules in 2009 was ...

Annual review North America: US industry fears over regulatory process
15 January 2010
Andy Beer

The new EPA administrator’s commitment to “transparency, sound science and the rule of law” failed to ease industry fears about the Obama administration’s stance on pesticides. A series of actions by the Agency throughout the year were denounced by industry representatives as failing to meet those ...

 
 
 
Syngenta tackles the China challenge
18 November 2009
Duncan Poupard

China has 22% of the world's population and only 7% of its agricultural land. The increasing urbanisation and higher demand for calories means that China has a real need for new technologies to improve yields. Syngenta China general manager Stephan Titze sees Syngenta's role in China as making a contribution to supplying those needs, by finding where its technologies fit into the market, adding value for farmers, while reducing the environmental impact of farming and improving farm ...

 

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