Peruvian municipalities in Satipo and Nauta have granted legal rights to native stingless bees. These tiny pollinators are now recognized a...

The pesticide industry is calling for stricter government rules on online sales of crop protection products. They want mandatory authorizat...

India's agriculture sector closed 2025 with record foodgrain output projections. GST reforms provided significant input cost relief for far...

The Indian agrochemical industry has established advanced world-class manufacturing facilities to cater to the domestic and global demands.

If the bill that was introduced in the Rajya Sabha on March 23, 2020, to replace The Insecticides Act, 1968, is passed in the current form,...

Manufacturers, farmers and academicians want the government to change the bill to make it more effective, make the registration committee a...

“Framing of rules is in final stages. As per the proposed guidelines, biostimulants will have to be first registered with government and ha...

An agro-chemicals industry body has opposed penal provisions in the new Pesticides Management Bill, saying these do not differentiate betwe...

“In many cases, pesticide manufacturers are unwilling to register their products in high potential markets as they find the process costly ...

The Pesticide Management Bill that will replace the Insecticides Act, 1968 seeks to regulate the pesticide sector by fixing prices and sett...

The new law will be in line with the international norms being practised by global leaders.

“With a focus to protect farmers and promote safe use of pesticide, we will finalise the Pesticide Management Bill very soon,” said B Rajen...

As many as 47 private members bills, including one demanding formation of separate Vidarbha state, were introduced in the Lok Sabha.

"There is need for holistic green revolution in the country and our motto should be less chemicals-more crops," Kumar said.

Minister of State for Agriculture Sanjeev Kumar Balyan, while speaking on Private Member's Bill said even now use of pesticide had been ban...

The govt has proposed an increase in monopoly period enjoyed by pesticide manufacturers over test data, used to support claims for efficacy...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has decided to oppose the Pesticides Management Bill, 2008, on the ground that that certain clauses had b...