We sprinkled pesticide to bug the potatoes.
我们喷撒杀虫剂给马铃薯除虫。
All services are aimed at pesticide enterprises to expand the international market.
所有服务都是针对农药企业拓展国际市场的。
The method conforms to the pesticide residue detection standard.
该方法符合农药残留检测标准。
Justin Gong, co-founder of XAG, said agricultural drones have been widely used for spraying pesticides, sprinkling fertilizers and sowing seeds to help farmers improve efficiency and reduce costs.
XAG联合创始人Justin Gong表示，农业无人机已被广泛用于喷洒农药、喷洒化肥和播种，以帮助农民提高效率并降低成本。
So far, the healthcare business of Hengdian, mainly operated by Apeloa Pharmaceutical, which was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, covers active pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates, pesticides, medical devices and medical services.
Due to a shortage of smart agricultural equipment, most farmers in Ecuador still rely on manpower to seed, fertilize and spray pesticides on their land.
However, sudden outbreaks of epidemics, natural disasters and industry changes can still have a negative impact on the placement of agricultural inputs such as seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, agricultural machinery and diesel, as well as on agricultural production, which directly or indirectly threatens China's agricultural production and food security.
Key agricultural producing provinces should be selected to set up a reserve of agricultural inputs including seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, specific agricultural machinery, and diesel, Feng said, adding that its operating mechanism should be a combination of market-oriented operations and emergency response deployment.
Temasek's management team in China led investments in some high-tech companies such as EAVision, which is known for its intelligent agricultural unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, that can deliver pesticides to targeted spots in small amounts; Abiochem Biotechnology Co Ltd in Shanghai, a promoter of green chemistry that employs biocatalysts in place of traditional chemical catalysis; and Momenta, whose autonomous driving software can promote carbon emission reduction through driverless travel.
To prepare for the upcoming busy spring plowing season, Quzhou Bangnongfeng Agricultural Products－a dealer of fertilizers, pesticides, agriculture equipment and chemical raw materials－resumed operations on Feb 13.
In less than two weeks, the company has delivered and stored up a total of 900 metric tons of fertilizers and 950 tons of pesticides for the local market.
Finlays also provides tea plantation training, such as integrated pest management without applying pesticides, yield and cost management, and the use of smart mobile technologies for local farmers.
The tea produced locally will be packed with a quick response code, and consumers can scan the code to track the producers, natural environment of origin and the condition of the use of pesticides.
For instance, it sells over 80 percent of the total sold in China of 100-day cereal-fed chilled beef imported from Australia; and it sells only those imported cherries with fruit diameter above 28 millimeters and strawberries that have passed 94 pesticide residue testing processes, according to the company.
“It’s totally under control and ensures safety, as it does not need pesticide at all,” said Chen.
That encouraged me to say no to chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides during the initial years," said Li.
In the Yangtze River basin, the ADB is supporting specific agricultural projects that are reducing the amount of pesticides and fertilizers that are going into the river and is looking at ways that can modernize industries in the area.
China has taken substantial steps to deliver on its green commitments, including targets to achieve zero growth in the use of pesticides and fertilizers, and through encouraging resource-efficient, soil conservation and eco-friendly farming systems.
In growing seasons, they sell seeds, fertilizers and pesticides on credit to growers, and then buy the cotton after harvest time.
Avoiding the abuse of pesticides and fertilizers is essential to food safety. "
"That is really smart," he smiled, after being told how to group-buy fertilizers and pesticides online to save money.
About 10 Chinese companies participated in the exhibition in order to promote their products or services including e-commerce platform, tractors, biological pesticides and irrigation systems.
They include cold chain traceability and compliance, product traceability and transparency, economically motivated adulteration management and mitigation, rapid testing technologies, training in good agricultural practices to reduce the use of pesticides and veterinary drugs, and materials and delivery tools for consumer education.
"After the acquisition, ChemChina is now equipped with the world's leading research and development ability in seeds and pesticides.
The group earned a profit of 10.4 billion yuan ($1.57 billion) between January and August, hitting a record high, thanks to its fast-growing businesses in fertilizer, seeds, pesticides, new materials and other chemical products in both the domestic and global markets.
Zhang said the group will further enlarge exports including pesticide and rubber to the economies involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, especially in Southeast Asia and Africa.
"The completion of this deal will help ChemChina become one of the world's largest suppliers of pesticides and other crop-care chemicals," said Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the rural development institute of the Beijing-based Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The sustainable agriculture project, by training the farmers in soil, water and pesticide management, will help 30,000 local farmers upgrade the quality of their tea products, meet Western market standards, and thereby increase their exports and incomes.
"The completion of this deal will help ChemChina become one of the world's largest suppliers of pesticides and other crop-care chemicals," said Ding Lixin, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing.
"China's pesticide industry is riddled with low profitability and only global scale can improve that.
The two companies' dominance in pesticides, weed killer and several other products will likely increase after the consolidation of their marketing power and R&D division, which will dampen the rise of competitors, negatively impact technological advancement, and hurt downstream dealers.
[Photo/Agencies]Brussels/Washington － China National Chemical Corp won the European Union's antitrust approval for its $43 billion takeover of Swiss pesticide maker Syngenta AG, a day after the US gave its blessing, bringing China's largest foreign acquisition closer to the finish line.
ChemChina's offer to divest some pesticides and other agricultural products will remove "problematic overlaps" and allow EU regulators to clear the deal, the European Commission said in an emailed statement.
The US required the companies to divest three types of pesticides as a condition for completing the deal.
If the deal is completed, ChemChina Chairman Ren Jianxin would become the head of a chemicals giant that sells products as varied as rubber tires, pesticides and genetically modified crop seeds.
Liu Hongsheng, president of Syngenta Group China, a seeds and pesticides manufacturer, said that China's large consumer base offers considerable market opportunities for agricultural products, positioning the country as a key market in the global agricultural supply chain.
It finds extensive applications in industries like pharmaceuticals, food, feed and pesticides.
It finds extensive applications in fields such as food, feed, pesticides and pharmaceuticals.
Since last year, Customs authorities on the mainland have repeatedly detected quarantine pests, such as plant matter that could negatively affect the mainland market if it were not controlled, as well as excessive amounts of the chemical pesticides fenthion and dimethoate in citrus fruit shipped to the mainland from Taiwan.
"We are a company focusing on commercial UAV applications, and DJI drones are our first-pick when dealing with spraying pesticides on crops," said Dexter Tangocci, director and co-founder of Integrated Aerial Systems in South Africa.
The park also has a testing room for checking the level of heavy metal and pesticide residue in products and works with third-party testing institutions for more sophisticated tests.
"The cooperative provides seeds and technical training, and purchases fertilizer and pesticide for us members," Chen said.
Capacity of chemical downstream, including pesticides, fertilizers, coatings and other fine chemicals account for more than 80 percent in number and capacity, it said.
Each orchard has a special page recording its basic information such as planting area, the number of trees, the average age of trees, annual harvest, and use of fertilizers and pesticides, according to Jin Yi, who is in charge of the e-commerce department of Xiuwen Guotou Group.
It saves human labor, cuts the growth period by five to 10 days and reduces the use of fertilizers and pesticides," said Chen Fucai, technical director of Guizhou Modern Seed Industry Group Co Ltd, a subsidiary of Guiyang Agricultural Investment Group.
To ensure the natural quality of roses, the base strictly controls every production process, including rose planting, picking and production, and prohibits the use of pesticides, fertilizers, herbicides and other harmful materials.
"But a strict requirement for us is that our fruit has to be safe, which means having no pesticide residues that are harmful," he said.
"If we tend the trees properly, there is no need to use any of the pesticides that are not allowed.
Under such circumstances, carrying out timely and precise fertilization and pesticide applications will not only increase grain production, but also help farmers reduce losses caused by disease and pests, he added.
This reduces the use of pesticides and energy, and protects the environment.
For roses, it checks on the glossiness of the flowers, if there is any physical damage during processing and if there are any pests or pesticide residue.
The effect of GM corn varieties on the fall army worm, a major threat to crops, reached 85 to 95 percent without the use of pesticides, Li said.
"The decreased use of pesticides on GM corn boosts ecological and environmental safety," Liu said, adding that using the same herbicide on GM soybean and corn can help intercropping and rotation of the two crops.
He uses aerial drones to spray pesticides and machines to pick the cotton.
Chemical fertilizers and pesticides are forbidden.
In addition, the region has little pollution, vegetables barely need any pesticides and fields are irrigated with mountain spring water.
In a statement on Tuesday, the ministry said one of the products is full-cost insurance covering various costs of agricultural production, including that of seeds, pesticides, fertilizers, land, labor, and losses from natural disasters, plant diseases and pests, among others.
A total of 22 robots are working in the greenhouse to help identify diseases, spray pesticides and transport goods.
Each member of the Party committee is responsible for some greenhouse production oversight such as whether farmers use authorized pesticides.
In addition to buying equipment to test pesticides on their own, officials from the Customs and agricultural and rural affairs authorities come to our village every half year to get samples from our greenhouses and bring them back to their labs for testing, said Li, adding that the color peppers grown in the village have never tested positive for pesticide residue.
If any farmer is found to be using prohibited pesticides, he will be prohibited from growing color peppers for three years, according to the cooperative regulations.
Experts said the BCI's current technical requirements, such as banning the use of certain pesticides that were prohibited in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region more than 30 years ago, are pretty low, and they mainly concern controlling cotton resources instead of certifying quality cotton.
HEFEI/HARBIN－Luo Yingdi, 50, has been busy spraying pesticide in wheat fields for over a month, covering about 67 hectares of land per day with the help of his agricultural spraying tractors.
"I have six agricultural sprayers and two drones to spray pesticides and herbicides.
The meta-Cresol is widely used in the fields of medicine, pesticides and antioxidants, among others.
Sowing seeds, spreading fertilizers and pesticides increasingly done remotelyAerial drones appeared one recent early morning above the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces in Southwest China's Yunnan province in an area where the elderly form the backbone of local agricultural cultivation.
Drone operators who use T30 drones equipped with updated barrier-avoidance radar systems and dual cameras can spray pesticides over about 16 hectares of farmland an hour, 33 percent more compared to the previous generation of aerial drones.
As the spring ploughing season approaches, CRC also enhanced the organization of transport in fertilizers, pesticides and other agricultural supplies, with 6.53 million tons delivered last month, up 40 percent compared to February.
Hipp said the organic farms of the company do not use chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and they artificially remove weeds and pests using the natural ecological chain.
It has registered negative growth in the use of fertilizer and pesticide, and seen high-level utilization and recycling of farm waste, the CAAS said in a report.
Drone operators who use such drones can spray pesticides on about 10 hectares of farmland an hour.
On the anvil are technological upgrades and organic farming to overcome concerns like residue of pesticides and traces of chrome in processed tea leaves, which should help comply with stringent Chinese standards.
It was also revealed that China had adopted more sets of standards covering the use of pesticides and veterinary drugs.
Still, the report also listed problems ranging from farmland pollution, use of substandard pesticides, to weak enforcement in agricultural products inspection.
The standards require lower levels of pollutants and residual pesticides than the national standards.
Drones have become a new source of income for many farmers, who use them to seed, sprinkle fertilizers and spray pesticides.
His firm now hires more than 10 staff members, and is now going all out to promote the use of drones in spraying pesticides.
The Shenzhen-based company has been devoting a great deal of attention to farming sector drones in hopes of helping farmers improve the efficiency of sowing seeds and spraying fertilizers and pesticides, as well as increasing the use ratio of intelligent agricultural equipment.
Drone operators who use T50 drones can spray pesticides over about 21 hectares of farmland per hour.
As a result, the use of pesticides can be greatly reduced, and earnings can increase substantially, Liu said.
While Chinese consumers and society are increasingly paying attention to food quality and safety, improving the quality and nutrition of crops becomes equally important with agricultural product consumption confidence, which means teaching farmers how to maintain yields without overusing fertilizer and pesticides.
This is why building a modern agricultural ecosystem is important and where digital and technological platform can make a huge difference, one example being that we can now provide information on local weather patterns, and weed and insect threats, to enable farmers to confidently increase yields and reduce pesticide use.
These transformations are already taking place and will help Chinese farmers quickly leapfrog into modern, highly efficient agricultural techniques, while also reducing the use of fertilizers, pesticides and save water.
The company has launched an unmanned ground vehicle and three types of agricultural drones that are used for seeding, fertilizing and spraying pesticides.
Taking Fu as an example, he needs to leave at 6 am to drive to the fields, prepare pesticides and guide his drones over large territories.
This year, for example, the weather was so fickle that pesticide spraying needed to be finished in less than one week at the peak time for plant pests and disease.
Moreover, precise spraying with drones can also help farmers use 20 percent less pesticides and fertilizer and increase results by 95 percent, he added.
Li said the charge is about the same compared to the cost on water, fertilizers, and pesticides in past years when the family was in charge of farming activities.
China is looking beyond familiar recourses like fertilizers, pesticides, scientific techniques for higher yields, and imports to make farm produce not only adequate and economy-stabilizing but profitable for farmers, they said.
Farm drones are widely used for seeding, spraying fertilizers and pesticides.
In China, XAG's drones are widely used for seeding, sprinkling fertilizers and spraying pesticides.
Chen Shengdou, director of the China Agro-tech Extension Association, said China has more than 50,000 units of agricultural drones in operation, topping the world's list, with an area of 30 million to 33 million hectares of crops that have been sprayed with pesticides and fertilizers by such drones.
DJI, the world's largest commercial drone manufacturer by market share, is also devoting a great deal of attention to agricultural drones, with the goal of helping farmers improve the efficiency of spraying pesticides and increasing the usage ratio of intelligent agricultural equipment.
Drone operators who use such drones can spray pesticides on about 12 hectares of farmland an hour, up 20 percent compared to the previous generation of aerial vehicles.
As of November 2019, its agriculture drones had completed spraying pesticide on 500 million mu (33.3 million hectares) farmland in all.
XAG forecasts domestic sales volumes to rise to 50,000 drones in 2020 from about 25,000 this year, said Justin Gong, co-founder of the Guangzhou-based company, adding the drones are used for seeding, fertilizing and spraying pesticides.
DJI, the world's largest commercial drone manufacturer by market share, is also devoting a great deal of attention to agricultural drones, with the goal of helping farmers improve the efficiency of spraying pesticides and increasing the use ratio of intelligent agricultural equipment.
It is understood that this loan will be mainly used to purchase seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and other agricultural production materials to improve greenhouse facilities and enhance planting efficiency.
Appropriate subsidies will be applied to purchases of agricultural materials such as seeds, seedlings, fertilizers, pesticides and operational services to resume agricultural production, and to repairs of damaged agricultural production facilities, according to the finance ministry.
They will be used to purchase pesticides and other tools needed for the prevention and control of crop pests and diseases, the MOF said, adding that the funds will also help subsidize related operations and services.
The chemical, papermaking and pesticide industries have been undergoing structural changes in response to the country's environmental protection policies.
The shortfall is due to a range of factors, such as the use of less-developed wheat varieties, insufficient application of fertilizers and pesticides, and a lack of mechanized farming, they added.
Specifically, the Finance Ministry has allocated 2.4 billion yuan in subsidies for fertilizers, pesticides and other agricultural sprays to improve the yields of autumn grains such as corn and soybeans, while strengthening their resistance to detrimental environmental factors.