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  • India’s uneven monsoon rainfall leads to about 9% lower summer cereal sowing area year-on-year
    Post time: Jul-18-2022

    Due to the uneven distribution of monsoon rainfall, India’s sowing of key summer crops such as rice, corn and soybeans is lagging behind. Indian farmers plant summer grain crops during the monsoon season in June and July for harvest in October. Monsoon rains could reach 94 to 106 percent of...Read more »

  • Smart agriculture is on the rise – reports from some countries
    Post time: Jul-15-2022

    With the wide application of digital technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence in the field of agriculture, smart agriculture is emerging in many countries. The Netherlands, France, Japan and other countries are actively using digital technology to manage their farmland scientific...Read more »

  • IHARA Launches Biofungicide Romeo (Cerevisane) in Brazil
    Post time: Jul-14-2022

    World Agrochemical Network reports: IHARA recently launched its new biofungicide Romeo in Brazil, which contains the active substance Cerevisane, a specific product isolated from brewer’s yeast. This innovative technology has performed well when applied to soybean crops, with an average yie...Read more »

  • Global wheat markets enter a critical time
    Post time: Jul-13-2022

    Foreign news, July 5: July is a key month of the year for wheat markets as the pace of exports accelerates as the Northern Hemisphere harvests wheat. With exports from Ukraine still stalled, market attention turns to how the Russia-Ukraine conflict will affect exports in 2022/23 and how other cou...Read more »

  • What time should tomatoes be fertilized?
    Post time: Jul-12-2022

    Tomato fertilization can be based on the characteristics of tomato fertilizer needs, tomato fertilization under the premise of cultivating strong seedlings, based on the base fertilizer, combined with land preparation 5 ~ 7 tons of high-quality organic fertilizer per mu, and with phosphorus ferti...Read more »

  • India’s rice sown area slips on slow monsoon rains
    Post time: Jul-11-2022

    According to data from the Indian Ministry of Agriculture, as of July 5, India’s rice sown area was 27% lower than a year earlier due to poor monsoon rainfall progress in June, while the total summer grain sown area was 5% lower than a year earlier. The cumulative rainfall for the period Ju...Read more »

  • Andromeda launches biopesticide containing three microorganisms
    Post time: Jul-08-2022

    Andromeda has launched Protege, a fungicide/nematicide for soybean and sugarcane crops, in Brazil. The product contains three microorganisms, Bacillus thuringiensis, Bacillus belleus and Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, which use different mechanisms of action to control nematodes and protect producti...Read more »

  • New Zealand kiwi production declines
    Post time: Jul-07-2022

    According to Radio New Zealand (RNZ) and the New Zealand Herald, this year’s New Zealand kiwi harvest is almost complete, with the total harvest volume lower than last year’s record of 177 million boxes. Recently both New Zealand kiwi marketer Zespri and grower Seeka said that they ex...Read more »

  • Tanzanian government officials call for faster pace of cotton cultivation
    Post time: Jul-06-2022

    Tanzanian mainstream media “The Guardian” reported on June 23, the governor of Tanzania’s Xinyangga province, Mjima announced at a public meeting on June 20, the Hassan government to increase the income of cotton farmers, significantly increased the guide price of cotton, from t...Read more »

  • Brazil’s agricultural GDP down 0.8% in the first quarter of the year
    Post time: Jul-05-2022

    The Brazilian newspaper “Valores Económicos” (June 21) calculates that in the first quarter of this year, Brazil’s agricultural GDP fell by 0.8% year-on-year, with the agricultural sector down 0.75% and the livestock sector down 0.96%, mainly due to higher prices for fertilizers...Read more »

  • U.S. rice sown area revised down to 2.34 million acres in 2022
    Post time: Jul-04-2022

    The U.S. Department of Agriculture released seeded acreage data showing that 2.34 million acres of U.S. rice were sown this year, down from the March 31 forecast of 2.452 million acres, down from 2.53 million acres the previous year and down from analysts’ expectations of 2.454 million acre...Read more »

  • Indonesian Palm Growers Ask Government to Cancel Domestic Matching Sales Policy
    Post time: Jul-01-2022

    Indonesian farmers want the government to cancel the palm oil ancillary sales policy implemented since May 23 in order to expand exports and raise domestic purchase prices for fresh fruit bunches, Indonesian officials said. The ban on palm oil exports was implemented by the world’s top palm...Read more »