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...advised life sciences company Bayer on the use of drones to collect data on farms in south-east Asia, which can help farmers target their pesticide spraying and improve soil quality — thereby increasing crop...
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...Erik Fyrwald, chief executive of Syngenta Crop Protection, said: “Agriculture has to be part of the solution to climate change.”...
...China’s food security has plummeted over the past three decades as its population has grown and agricultural land usage has shifted from grains to more lucrative crops....
...These developments pose a direct challenge to the traditional dominance of chemical companies, such as Bayer and Syngenta, and to a chemical crop protection market that is estimated to be worth more than...
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...Last week they delivered 219,000 public comments to the Environmental Protection Agency demanding a ban....
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...In 2015 China’s crop protection market was the world’s third-largest, valued at $5.4bn, but it was also incredibly fragmented....
...Saori Dubourg, the BASF board member overseeing crop protection, said the deal was not driven by cost synergies but top-line growth and adding value with a new line of business....
...BASF is the sector’s last large, fully-integrated conglomerate, with operations ranging from oil and gas exploration to basic chemicals, food chemicals, plastics and crop protection....
...“It will be a strategic complement to BASF’s well-established and successful crop protection business as well as to our own activities in biotechnology.” Image source: Reuters...
...The Dow-Dupont merger was approved in March after the company agreed to sell Dupont’s research department to assuage concerns the deal would cut innovation in crop protection chemicals....
...The agriculture ministry also renewed approvals for the import of 14 other kinds of GM crop, including Syngenta’s Duracade corn, a Monsanto sugar beet and three Bayer rapeseed products....
...ChemChina sold a large part of its European generic crop chemical business to gain EU clearance for its purchase of Syngenta....
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...The commission said it was worried about higher prices or less choice for crop protection products – which are chemicals that regulate plant growth and kill pests – as ChemChina would own both Syngenta and...
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