Article Issue: May 2019

AlgaEnergy's wholly-owned subsidiary in India, MicroAlgae Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. (MASI), and Krishi Rasayan Export Pvt Ltd's (KREPL) sister concern, Agrolife Sciences Corporation (ALSC), have formed […]

Symborg has opened a new subsidiary in France. The company previously opened subsidiaries in China, Turkey, Chile, Mexico and the United States. The new subsidiary […]

India’s Rashtriya Kamdhenu Aayog (National Cow Commission) will suggest the India government make it mandatory for companies such as KRIBHCO and IFFCO to manufacture 10 […]

Houston-based Sigma Agriscience, a manufacturer of granular biofertilizers and biostimulants, will begin offering new performance-based fertilizer blends in partnership with Heliae Agriculture. According to a […]

Dr. Patrick Doyle joins PlantResponse Biotech, Inc. as the Product Development Director and will work from the PlantResponse Biotech U.S. headquarters in Research Triangle Park. […]

Bob McNally, Director of the Biopesticides and Polution Prevention Division of the US EPA provided comments on the recently released draft “Guidance for Plant Regulator […]

Jessica Vanhoy joins Vestaron as Chief Financial Officer. Vanhoy has 20 years’ experience in accounting and finance, most recently as Director of Financial Planning and […]

OmniLytics, Inc. in coordination with Certis USA, released AgriPhage-Fire Blight for targeted use on apple and pear crops in U.S. states Washington, New York, Pennsylvania […]

AlgaEnergy has appointed Debabrata Sarkar as Vice President - Asia Pacific, and Dr. Lokesh Singh as India Country Manager. Sarkar is an agricultural graduate with […]

Bionema Ltd., a biotech company, announces the completion of £180,000 equity investment, led by private investors with co-investment from the Development Bank of Wales. The […]

Ho Chi Minh City-based Que Lam Group has opened its bioorganic fertilizer plant, built at a cost of 500 billion VND (21.54 million USD), in […]

Joyn Bio has signed a long-term lease within Bayer’s Vegetable Seed Facility in Woodland, California. The space will become home to Joyn’s plant sciences team, […]

Incotec has opened Innovation Center, in the Des Moines, Iowa, suburb of Urbandale to provide market focused agriculture products and solutions. The Innovation Center houses […]

Marrone Bio Innovations reported revenue of US$8.7 million for 1Q2019, a record quarterly sales and an increase of 102% versus 1Q2018. Gross profit for the […]

Chilean company Biosur has launched INSIDER, a new biological insecticide for the control of whitefly, formulated with spores of the entomopathogenic fungus Verticillium lecanii, a […]

STK bio-ag technologies has partnered with Summit Agro USA, which will become the exclusive distributor of STK products in the United States. Currently registered STK […]

Groundwork BioAg, Ltd. has launched DYNAMYC premium mycorrhizal inoculants, formulated for cannabis cultivation. DYNAMYC products contain up to two species of endomycorrhizal fungi to improve […]

Marrone Bio Innovations Inc. (MBI) has appointed TerraLink Horticulture, Inc. as a distributor of the Regalia Maxx Biofungicide in Western Canada. TerraLink, based in Abbotsford, […]

Since its beginning in 1998, Ecoflora has focused on botanical extracts. What led to the decision for this strategic focus? Ecoflora Agro is one of […]

Koppert has acquired Oecos, a British company focused on the development and production of trapping systems for agriculture and horticulture. The acquisition of Oecos includes […]

Miranda Hart, who teaches biology at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, says despite a decades-long practice, there could be environmental consequences of adding […]

Brazilian company Sinagro Group joins Australian AgBiTech, a specialist in biological control of caterpillars, to bring to Brazil a portfolio of solutions of biological origin […]

The Association of Fruit and Vegetable Producers’ Organizations of Almeria (COEXPHAL) has investigated the role of different species of biological control agents to control Tuta […]

In January, Bioline Agrosciences and the company Biocolor (Spain) announced the creation of a new company, Bioline Iberia. On May 7, 2019, a new biomanufacturing […]

New technology has been developed by the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF), Pakistan, and Jaffer Agro Services (Private) Limited, for application of bioherbicide to control […]

Axter Agroscience Inc. has signed an exclusive agreement for Canadian distribution of products manufactured by Dutch company Aminocore. Aminocore develops and produces amino acid-based fertilizers […]

Michigan State University (U.S.) scientists have developed synthetic biology tools to co-produce high-value compounds – terpenoids – in plants. Terpenoids form the largest class of […]