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Seeds

S&W Seed Company expects $69.8 M core revenue for fiscal 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant negative impact on logistics S&W Seed Company has announced certain unaudited preliminary financial results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021. Preliminary core…

BASF’s vegetable seeds biz in comprehensive partnership with NSIP

The collaboration focuses on four key segments within cucumber, pepper, and tomato breeding programmes to develop and execute breeding work-flows etc BASF’s vegetable seeds business has collaborated with Nature Source…

ICRISAT, PJTSAU releases high-yielding disease-resistant pigeon pea variety in India

ICRISAT and ZARS-Kalaburagi are also using genomics to improve pigeon pea in a first-of-its-kind effort for this crop TDRG 59, a high-yielding variety of pigeon pea resistant to Fusarium wilt…

ICRISAT optimises seed-chip genotyping in groundnut

Single seed chipping proves most advantageous Researchers at ICRISAT have established seed-chip genotyping for groundnut as a significantly faster and cheaper method for genotyping than the oft-used leaf-disc technique. In…

Bayer Crop Science posts 10.6% rise in sales in Q2 FY2021  

The Company registered double-digit percentage gains in Latin America and Asia/Pacific as well as significant growth in North America after adjusting for currency and portfolio effects      The Bayer…

Powerpollen in license agreement with Bayer for innovative corn seed pollination tech

PowerPollen’s Pollination-on-Demand technology will give farmers greater flexibility by allowing them to optimise the timing of pollinations PowerPollen has announced a commercial license agreement with Bayer. The move will help…

Distribution of seed minikit of pulses to boost production: Union Agri Minister

The seed minikits of pulses are distributed to the farmers of major pulse growing states under NFSM   Union Agriculture Minister in a written reply in Lok Sabha mentioned that…

Union Agri Minister lays foundation stone of Plant Authority building

The new building will provide ease to visiting farmers and consumers Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar laid the foundation stone of the Plant Authority building…

MIT researchers device ways to protect seeds from stress of water shortage

According to the researchers, the process is simple and inexpensive, and could be widely deployed in arid regions Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with…

Dhanuka Agritech launches novel herbicide TORNADO

The herbicide will help farmers protect crops from unwanted weeds Dhanuka Agritech has launched a novel herbicide for Indian farmers, TORNADO a comprehensive solution for weeds in oilseeds crops. The…

Seed industry players reach consensus on commercialization framework for new traits

The framework will help to develop superior plant varieties by breeders which will benefit the farmers The seed industry through National Seed Association of India (NSAI) and Federation of Seed…

Solvay completes acquisition of Bayer’s global seed coatings business

The acquisition strengthens Solvay’s existing seed care portfolio in bio-based, seed-applied solutions; enables reinvestment opportunities for Bayer Solvay and Bayer have recently announced the successful closing of Solvay’s previously announced…

Govt of India dedicates climate-resilient special trait crop varieties to nation

The varieties are tolerant to diseases, insects, pests, drought, salinity, and flooding, early maturing and amenable to mechanical harvesting The Government of India has given special attention to providing an…

Bioheuris, GDM partners to develop soybean varieties using gene editing

Through this collaboration, both companies will be engaged to precisely modify soybean genes to obtain elite varieties with a novel crop management system.   Argentina based Bioheuris, an agbiotech start-up…

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