Sentences with phrase «crop protection at»

Commissioner Margrethe Vestager, in charge of competition policy, said: «The livelihood of farmers depends on access to seeds and crop protection at competitive prices.

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Research at the Azienda Agraria Sperimentale Stuard includes techniques of fertilization, crop rotation, integrated pest management, protection and balance of nutrients in the soil as well as organic cultivation.

Upon graduating in 1993 with a Ph.D. in entomology with an emphasis on integrated crop protection, Chiasson won a postdoctoral industrial fellowship from the National Sciences and Engineering Rearch Council of Canada to work at a Quebec - based bioagricultural company that specializes in pesticide research and development.

Kongming Wu, director of the Institute for Plant Protection at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing said, «This review paper will be very helpful for understanding insect resistance in agricultural systems and improving strategies to sustain the effectiveness of Bt crops.»

Now a research team led by Sean Cutler, a plant cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside, has found a new drought - protecting chemical that shows high potential for becoming a powerful tool for crop protection in the new world of extreme weather.

«Crop protection products such as fungicides help farmers grow quality crops free of disease and achieve better yields, which keeps prices low for consumers,» said Mike Leggett, senior director of environmental policy at CropLife America.

Despite the vast resources spent each year on crop protection applications, crop damage is estimated at 37 percent due to plant pests and diseases occurring to a large extent because of loss of pesticide efficacy related to pesticide clumping, drying and run off.

Prior to arriving in Toronto, Tuckett was corporate counsel at DuPont's headquarters in Wilmington, serving as commercial counsel supporting its crop protection business platform.