6/11/13: Pest and disease control at heart of Adjuvants Market

The 'Adjuvants Market' which encompasses part of the agrochemical market and includes areas such as drift control agents, ammonium fertilisers and water conditioners, is one of the fastest growing sectors in agriculture.

Over the next five years it is expected to raise almost 30 percent from US$2173 million to almost US$3000 million worldwide, reflecting an ongoing rapid growth the sector has seen in recent years. 

Adjuvants are revitalising the agrochemical sector and are proving useful ways for farmers to improve their chemical applications, facilitate dosages and achieve more cost-effective and better targeted pest control.

The agriculture adjuvants market is mostly focused on North America and Europe where high tech agriculture practices are dominant.

Crop Spraying against pests and /or diseases. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

22/10/13: Event: Myanmar Agribusiness Summit

With high growth and development potential, Myanmar is quickly building prominence, attracting the attention of international investors aiming to draw profits from the country's vast natural resources.

While oil, gas and coal mining, hydropower projects and logging have featured most prominently to date in terms of investments in Myanmar, agribusiness has emerged at the forefront of recent government development policies. The political transformations that Myanmar is undergoing are a golden opportunity for the country to engage in agribusiness to achieve economic growth with sustainable and rights-based outcomes.

The Myanmar Agribusiness Investment Summit 2014 is designed to provide a platform for the international agribusiness industry players and potential investors to gather in Yangon; providing updated on the market potential and development plan of the agribusiness in Myanmar; implication of new economic regulations arising from latest parliamentary decision for the agribusiness sectors.

 MAIS 2013 aims to:

- focus on the trade and investment opportunities of the Myanmar Agribusiness sector

- review Myanmar’s agribusinesses modernisation plan and investment opportunities

- bring together high level government authorities and regulators to discuss on policies and initiatives

- provide unlimited formal and informal networking opportunities through a hive of activities throughout the two day event

- provide unparalleled opportunities to explore investment potentials with the government and local industry players

- bridge partnerships via customised business matching programs

The Summit takes place from 21-22 January 2014  at the Inya Lake Hotel, Yangon, Myanmar.

For more information, a copy of the summit program and conference registration details, visit the event website. 

Myanmar Agribusiness Investment Summit 2014

19/09/2013: Algeria's first US grain imports; ag giants kept out of India; Adisseo wins IT Innovation Award

The U.S. Grains Council (USGC) recently announced positive international developments with regard to the importation of dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) in Algeria and plans by Taiwan to purchase U.S. grains products. 

This positive development comes a year after USGC and USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service announced that a three and a half year effort to convince Algeria to remove a value added tax and custom tax on all feed imports to Algeria. 

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Controls are discouraging the agricultural trading giants from investing in the country's storage sector despite a huge potential for elevator production in a country where US$3.5bn of grain is written off every year.

While India is the second-ranked rice and wheat producing country after China, agricultural trading houses have been reluctant to invest in the country thanks to the degree of government control over the sector.

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Adisseo has been named the winner of the 2013 Information Technology Innovation Award for its web-based platform, Precise Nutrition Evaluation (PNE). The award acknowledges technological advancements in the feed and food industry to meet the demand of a growing population.

PNE which was launched in September 2012, combines an internet-accessible database with near infrared spectroscopy technology, analysis of ingredients for the determination of apparent metabolizable energy (AME) and digestible amino acids (DAA), and ISO-certified wet chemistry methods that are both stringent and high quality. 

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English: India. Area controlled by India in dark green; Claimed but uncontrolled territories in light green. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)