Sentences with word «agrochemicals»

This guide explores issues relating to 100 % fruit juices including the welfare of fruit growers, the use of agrochemicals in the fruit growing industry, and the climate impact of packaging and shipping.

As agrochemical use is strictly regulated, the most dangerous pesticides are prohibited, and farmers use mechanical and biological pest controls whenever possible.

The ones that come from Central America grow in soils with a lot of agrochemicals in them.

Meanwhile, the United States EPA is considering an application by agrochemical giant Syngenta to dramatically escalate the use of the harmful neonicotinoid pesticide, thiamethoxam.

In both the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries, there's a worldwide demand for new substances.

Speaking from the ongoing Organic World Congress in Istanbul, Turkey, Dr. Medina claimed that only the giant agrochemical companies benefit from the profits of GMO seeds and chemical inputs, while leaving the smallholder and family farmers poorer and hungrier.

«We believe that Golden Rice, whose research has been hijacked by agrochemical company Syngenta, is meant to gain control over our rice and agriculture.»

Governments are increasingly concerned about the impacts of inappropriate practices on the health of the natural environment, especially from soil erosion, contamination from agrochemicals, and inefficient use of water resources.

One of the fruits with consistently low levels of agrochemical contamination is the pineapple, because of its thick protective husk, and pineapple is an excellent source of vitamin C and the anti-inflammatory enzyme bromelain.

For agrochemicals, co-crystallizing liquid products should offer greater control over how they are delivered onto farmlands, possibly helping to curtail their inadvertent release into the environment.

They've looked at aphid - resistant wheat, which wouldn't need to be sprayed with agrochemicals.

A new study about the harmful effects of Glyphosate is lending weight to 2012 Goldman Prize recipient Sofia Gatica's campaign to stop the indiscriminate spraying of toxic agrochemicals in Argentina and... Read More

We are currently carrying out further studies to generate new compounds that can rapidly and reversibly control plant growth without causing harm to humans and bacteria in the surrounding environment, which can potentially work as agrochemicals,» they speak.

Golden Rice is said to be a Trojan Horse that will further open our agricultural sector to seeds and inputs owned by huge agrochemical transnational corporations, including Syngenta and ChemChina.

Neonicotinoids exhibit a toxicity that can be amplified by various other agrochemicals and they synergistically reinforce infectious agents such as Nosema ceranae which together can produce colony collapse.

They're concerned with factors like safe working conditions, giving back to the communities, worker education, lowering agrochemical use, waste management, wildlife protection and ecosystem and water conservation.

Legitimate agrochemical businesses need to ensure customers can clearly recognize the legal products.

Monsanto, a US - based company is now the biggest agrochemical giant in the world controlling almost a quarter of the global proprietary seed market, including GMOs.

For example, while Rainforest Alliance certification requires the phasing out of dangerous pesticides, farms must provide extensive safety training, protective gear, and washing stations to workers handling agrochemicals while they are in use to prevent workers — and their families and communities — from being exposed.

Her research involves the impact of pesticides and agrochemicals on bee health.

Co-ops must recognize conservation and buffer areas and not cultivate within them or apply agrochemicals.

It could still be a few years before farmers in the US start growing the maize, made by agrochemical firms Monsanto and Dow.

Syngenta (# 17), the world's largest agrochemical company, said it will invest $ 500 million in Africa, from which it expects to reap $ 1 billion in revenues over the next decade.

The first outbreak in Britain of the bee disease varroasis, now taking a hold in southwest England, has prompted the government to waive its lengthy vetting arrangements for the licensing of new agrochemicals.

The increase in acne nutrients is not substantial, but it's a welcome bonus on top of the main goal of avoiding inflammatory agrochemical contamination.

The organic nature of many urban agriculture projects helps decrease reliance on oil based agrochemicals, improve soil quality and reduce contamination.

Organic Agriculture reduces non-renewable energy use by decreasing agrochemical needs (these require high quantities of fossil fuel to be produced).

Not for nothing are major agrochemicals and biotechnology companies investing heavily in developing such transgenic crops.

ChemChina's own presence in global agriculture is wide but paper - thin; it mostly sells low - profit commodity agrochemicals.

A series of proposed megamergers in the global agrochemicals and seed industries — capped by Bayer's record $ 66 billion cash bid for Monsanto — raise fears of a pricing monopoly in the farm - supply industry and threat to the global food supply.

Monsanto is no. 1 in biotech seed sales controlling 27 % of GMO seed sales and no. 4 in agrochemical sales controlling 10 % of global sales.

The SAN standards cover ecosystem conservation, worker rights and safety, wildlife protection, water and soil conservation, agrochemical reduction and education for farm children.

Pesticide - impregnated plastic bags, which farms use to protect bananas as they grow, littered riverbanks and beaches near banana farms, while agrochemical runoff and erosion clogged rivers, choked the region's stunning coral reefs and killed marine life.

Organic farming methods are at the cutting edge of the future of sustainable farming, delivering foods consumers are demanding and shining light on a farming pathway ahead without reliance on synthetic agrochemicals or GM technology.

Through this process, more than 150,000 tons of agrochemical empty plastic bottles have been collected from the field since 2002, saving an estimated 374,000 barrels of crude oil and more than 160,000 tons of CO2 equivalents that were not belched into the atmosphere.

Agribusiness Virtuous Cycle: Full Cycle Recycling System Transforms Plastic Bottles Waste for High - Value Plastic Products, Greif / Cimplast Embalagens and Cimflex — Brazil The Virtuous Cycle is a complete cycle approach that enables used multilayer agrochemical bottles to be diverted from landfills and remade into high - value products.

Instead, the certification emphasizes reduced agrochemical use, better waste management, and water conservation.

The benefits of organic farming include the guardianship of our natural land resources, native plants, wildlife, insects, and birds, the development and conservation of natural ecosystems and a reduction in the nitrate and agrochemical pollution of our countryside and water courses.

It has also been found that the quality of water is better in organic rice cultivations (in terms of dissolved nutrients and presence of residual agrochemicals), so organic agriculture is beneficial not only to the rice system, but to all living species and habitats present in the Ebro Delta.