Syngenta AG will lay off 135 full-time employees and another 160 contractors in Houston this year as the company closes its Greens Bayou facility near the Port of Houston, USA.The manufacturing plant produces chlorothalonil, a pesticide that was recently banned in Europe by a European Union decision

Last week, the National Administration decided to raise the Statistic Tax to imports from previous 0.5% to 3.0%, eliminating all the exemptions, for example to temporary imports and imports from Mercosur countries. The Decree 332/2019 was published in the Official Register May 6th and came into forc

The Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Supply (MAPA) released, in April, its new List of Priorities for Registration and Amendment of Agrochemicals. According to MAPA, the objective is to prioritize the registration of agrochemicals for the control of crop plagues listed as having great

UPL Limited declared the new leadership appointments for the merged entity yesterday. The appointments will be effective upon the completion of the proposed transaction. The completion of the proposed transaction is subject to obtaining various regulatory approvals and the satisfaction of other cust

We can agree that healthy soil is essential for sustainable and productive agriculture. While we have a general understanding of what soil health means, it can be difficult to define and even more difficult to agree on the best was to measure it. A definition certainly includes aspects of physical,