LAST March, Chancellor Jose Camacho Jr. of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) granted an exclusive license to an agribusiness company, Agri-Specialist Inc. (ASI), to use, produce and sell the biofertilizer trademarked as Bio-N nationwide.
In turn, ASI — a newcomer in the...
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tech.eu
2024.11.20
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BiocSol, a spinout specialized in sustainable crop protection solutions, has raised a €5.2M Seed round.
Agri Investment Fund and VIVES IUF led the round, bringing extensive expertise in agribusiness and biotechnology, alongside Belgian investors, including Invest.BW and IMBC Spinnova SA....
Krishak Jagat
2024.11.18
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CABI is supporting a project to help smallholder farmers fight the sweet potato weevil (SPW) in Antigua and Barbuda, Jamaica, and St Lucia using environmentally friendly biological control agents as part of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) plan.
Dr Belinda Luke, Global Team Leader,...
chinadaily
2024.11.14
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Chinese scientists have discovered a small molecule in plant cells that can trigger immunity.
The molecule, which has been patented, can potentially be developed into a broad-spectrum biopesticide, helping plants such as crops resist diseases.
"Once this biopesticide is put into use, it can...
the cool down
2024.11.06
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Growing a large amount of food that is both safe to eat and profitable to sell is no easy task. To make it easier, many farmers resort to human-made fertilizers that, despite harmful impacts, can often juice up their crop yield.
What if there was a way to safely grow healthy food in large...
A quiet revolution: NBRI’s innovation boosts liquid biofertilizer production in Odisha’s Nabarangpur
thehindu
2024.10.19
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The NBRI has provided its proven, high-efficiency strains of bio-inoculants to Krishna Nayak, an entrepreneur from Uma Shankar Sabuja Dunia Limited (USSDL) in Nabrangpur. With this technical support, Mr. Nayak has set up a biofertilizer production unit with a capacity to produce 1,400 tons per...
The Biologicals Boom: What’s Driving the Market for Biostimulants, Biopesticides and Biofertilizers?
CropLife
2024.10.15
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Death, taxes, and biologicals. With apologies to Benjamin Franklin, the growth of biological products in agriculture seems as inevitable as the first two. In the past few years, both the interest in and use of biological products (primarily biostimulants, biopesticides, biofertilizers) seem to have...
anthropocenemagazine
2024.10.11
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Using eco-friendly fertilizers instead of synthetic chemicals produces high quality tomato crops with competitive yields, a team of Italian scientists has shown.
Their new study considered two groups of fertilizer alternatives: a nutrient-rich algae-infused concoction; and fertilizers made with...