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The Council's negotiating position on the Omnibus X package allows unlimited approval only for low-risk substances and sets 15 years for first approvals and 25 for renewals, ahead of talks with Parliament.
AgrotechNorth Dakota State University engineers built a robot whose three independently controlled sweeps follow the ground by RTK-GPS and force sensors, cutting soil disturbance by 48.7% in field trials.
The Jaipur company, whose machines cost Rs 10,000 to Rs 1 lakh, will expand manufacturing, move into southern India and develop power weeders and battery sprayers with IoT features.
AgrotechSENASA will answer within 90 days and can grant temporary authorisations of up to two years where no registered product exists for a small crop or a new application method.
CropsThe EPA rule, requested by UPL, ends the need for yearly emergency exemptions for the broadleaf weed herbicide in sugar beet.
CropsThe farm ministry granted an emergency exemption against grass weeds that its own safety agency twice refused; environmental groups are going to court.
AgrotechTessera, a foundation model, turns a year of satellite images of each 10-metre patch into a compact summary, so crops can be classified with little ground data.
CropsAscribe Bio's Phytalix switches on the plant's own defences rather than poisoning the fungus, giving growers a new rotation option against resistant diseases; efficacy data are company-reported.
CropsThe Swedish company's arginine-phosphate seed coating was tested by contract researchers in Europe and Brazil; the results are company-released.
CropsThe product pairs fluopicolide and cymoxanil for grapes, potatoes and vegetables, and ADAMA says it will also be launched in Ghana for cacao.
CropsThe Indian agrochemical firm told stock exchanges on 25 September that Fujita targets leaf, nodal and neck blast, while Wetcit Neo is a plant-oil adjuvant for better spray coverage.
CropsThe Department of Agriculture counts 223,214 farmers and 249,028 hectares affected in 14 of 18 regions, and warns losses will rise as a very strong El Nino is forecast from October.
AgrotechUniversity of Göttingen researchers found that the endophyte Flavo98 switches on a root-hair pathway under water stress; treated plants survived drought at about 85%, and the effect held in wheat, rapeseed, camelina and tomato.
