The laws establishing the Agency gave it powers to control and regulate the manufacture, importation, exportation, distribution, advertisement, sale and use of food, drugs, cosmetics, chemicals, detergents, all drinks, including packaged water and medical devices. The laws establishing the Agency gave it powers to control and regulate the manufacture, importation, exportation, distribution, advertisement, sale and use of food, drugs, cosmetics, chemicals, detergents, all drinks, including...

Its portfolio includes Insignia fungicide, Emerald fungicide, Curalan fungicide, IprodionePro fungicide, PropiconazolePro fungicide and Trinity fungicide, Pendulum AquaCap herbicide, Image herbicide, Drive herbicide, Basagran herbicide and Sahara herbicide and Amdro insecticide. BASF s growth for Turf & Ornamentals includes a rich product pipeline that will expand our portfolio of innovative fungicides, herbicides and insecticides very soon, said Dr. Financial operations, forecasting and...

government after the melamine breaches, Beijing has pledged to act on food safety and announced an industry clean-up that would bring inspections for fertilizer, pesticides and additives in livestock feed. HONG KONG (Reuters) - Foreign buyers of Chinese food are asking for safety tests following the melamine pet food debacle, threatening the country's competitive position in a wide range of markets, including organic ingredients. The new rules require checks for nearly 300 pesticides and...

Department of Agriculture expects about 90 million acres of corn to be planted this year, a 12 million acre increase over last year. Our North American urea margins were a near record $84 per tonne in the first quarter and are expected to be significantly higher in the second quarter. The plant will consist of two ammonia and urea trains with a combined capacity of 1.3 million tonnes of urea and 100,000 tonnes of net ammonia. Inventories decreased $121-million primarily as a result of...

Atamurat Abdukadyrov, assistant governor of the Pakhtakor district, denies that local authorities beat farmers but says that the governor sometimes swears at them. On a wet morning in mid-April, a group of farmers in this region of central Uzbekistan were standing outside a meeting house. The International Crisis Group, a nonprofit, conflict-resolution organization, considers Central Asia's cotton industry a contributor "to political repression, economic stagnation, widespread poverty, and...