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Netrokona graduate builds organic-minded farm on mulch film and sticky traps
History graduate Mohidul Hasan Munna runs vegetables, fruit, cows and fish with mulch film, pheromone traps and biogas, and sells organic inputs online.
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AgrotechEU approval delays push Dutch biological crop protection firms abroad, report says
Invest-NL says approvals can take eight to ten years, so companies launch in Brazil, the US and the UK first, and warns the Netherlands could lose its lead.
AgrotechDanish start-up Yngvi Bio builds protein carriers that aim pesticide at one pest
Building on University of Copenhagen research, Yngvi Bio packs biopesticides into bacterial protein containers whose binding legs choose the target insect; its first product is aimed at white grubs in New Zealand grassland.
AgrotechNew Asia Biologicals Foundation to build the field evidence farm biologicals lack
Launched at the Asia Biologicals Summit in Singapore, the non-profit will build shared, independent trials of biological crop products, starting with rice, cassava and cocoa.
AgribusinessCorteva builds Brazil into its global base for biological crop protection
Corteva expects biological products to take up to a third of the world crop protection market within a decade, and is using Brazil, where 65% of growers already use them, to develop and export them.
OrganicBrazil's regulator says biopesticide reviews take six months as bioinputs decree waits
Ibama says it reviews bioinput dossiers in about half the time the law allows and has almost no backlog, while farm groups fear the pending decree under Brazil's Bioinputs Law will slow approvals.
AgrotechBioConsortia raises $15 million for microbial seed coatings that fix nitrogen in non-legume crops
The Davis, California company will use the money to launch Always N, a nitrogen-fixing seed treatment, and Zaffre, a biostimulant, and to fund biological fungicides, nematicides and insecticides.
AgrotechSenseUP bets microbe-wrapped RNAi sprays can become mainstream pest control
German startup SenseUP packs double-stranded RNA inside bacterial cells so its gene-silencing biopesticides keep for 18 months at room temperature, cost less to make and can target several pests at once.
AgrotechMolagri raises $5.8m for "updatable" biopesticides that spare pollinators
Toronto startup Molagri has raised $5.8 million to build precision biopesticides from engineered virus-like particles that target one pest and can be redesigned as insects develop resistance.
CropsPesticides top Asia's toxic threats; China's drones and smart traps show a way
A report by ID Capital ranks pesticides as the most urgent source of toxic exposure in Asia. Founder Isabelle Decitre says cuts must protect farmers' yields, and points to China's targets, professional spray services, drones and IoT pest forecasting.
CropsBrazil puts bioinputs rules ahead of pesticide decree, and industry asks for faster registrations
Brazil's agriculture ministry is concentrating on the decree that will put its 2024 bioinputs law into practice, even if work on the pesticides law's decree slows, and the bioinputs industry association backs the choice while asking for simpler, digital procedures.
AgrotechBioWorks launches a microbial inoculant to help crops cope with water stress
BioWorks has launched BioRain Ax, a liquid mix of three beneficial soil bacteria meant to improve water retention around roots; in a company watermelon trial treated plants gave fruit 14.5 percent heavier.
AgribusinessUS farm inputs maker BRANDT buys Mexico's Altiara to expand in Latin America
BRANDT has bought all the shares of Altiara, a Mexican maker of crop nutrition, organic bio-solutions and adjuvants, giving it a plant in Mexico to supply Central America and the Caribbean.