Interests: Corn, Cotton, Peanuts, Soybeans, Dairy, Irrigation, Marketing
Business Title: Sinoherb Agrochem Co., Ltd
Job Title: Ag Investor, Precision Agriculture Specialist
Interests:
Sustainable Agriculture
Job Title: Ag Investor
Interests:
Organic Specialty Crops
Business Title: Suzhou Dora Agri-Tech Co., Ltd
Interests:
Corn, Cotton, Peanuts, Soybeans, Wheat, Rice, Cover Crops, Organic Row Crops, Marketing, Agribusiness
Interests: Cover Crops, Ag Policy, Precision Agriculture, Organic Row Crops, Irrigation, Timber, Marketing, Agribusiness
Interests: Corn, Soybeans, Beef, Swine, Cover Crops, Marketing, Agribusiness
Interests: Corn, Cotton, Peanuts, Soybeans, Dairy, Irrigation, Marketing
Business Title: Sinoherb Agrochem Co., Ltd
Job Title: Ag Investor, Precision Agriculture Specialist
Interests:
Sustainable Agriculture
Job Title: Ag Investor
Interests:
Organic Specialty Crops
Business Title: Suzhou Dora Agri-Tech Co., Ltd
Interests:
Corn, Cotton, Peanuts, Soybeans, Wheat, Rice, Cover Crops, Organic Row Crops, Marketing, Agribusiness
Interests: Cover Crops, Ag Policy, Precision Agriculture, Organic Row Crops, Irrigation, Timber, Marketing, Agribusiness
Interests: Corn, Soybeans, Beef, Swine, Cover Crops, Marketing, Agribusiness
By Jenny Hoo
Published Sep 13, 2019
Pineapple pineapple cultivation Of late, the talk of the town seems to be revolving around the planting of MD2 pineapple. The questions is, why is this MD2 pineapple so popular?Pineapple is known to contain highest amount of vitamin C among all various types of fruits. It also contains a fair amount of magnesium, calcium, potassium and iron and develops a bromelin, of which is a type of enzyme... Currently, the main producers for pineapples are Thailand, the Phillipines, Brazil, China and Mexico... Due to the demand surge, lately Malaysia is also aggressively promoting the plantation of MD2 pineapple and DSTE Capital Limited is on the pace to be the largest MD2 pineapple planter in Malaysia, serving the rising demand from China and other countries...
Categories: Agribusiness, Organic Row Crops, Vegetables
Updated Oct 24, 2020
Though most of the organic cotton in the world comes from Asia, Texas in the USA is also a major producer. Although specific growing methods may vary based on region and farm size, there are general principles that can be applied throughout the world when it comes to growing organic cottonEconomicsThere are many reasons to grow cotton organically. The market share of organic cotton has grown from 1% in 2008 to 21% in 2018. Half of this is grown in India, with China (17%), Kyrgyzstan (7%), and Turkey (7%) being the next major producers. It takes three years for farmers to convert to organic farming, as this is the time required for soil to become free of chemical fertilizers and pesticides...
Categories: Cotton, Organic Specialty Crops, Sustainable Agriculture
Published Apr 4, 2018
From there, most of the soy is transported to China who is the number one importer and consumer of Brazilian grown soy... Will Improving the Brazilian Economy Kill the Rainforest?Fearnside states that Brazil’s explosive growth and exportation of soy to China is helping the Brazilian economy dig itself out of a financial hole but with dire consequences. According an article published by the Guardian, soy exports to China have increased 10,685% since 1995. In 2017, China purchased 50... The second largest supplier of soy to China is the U...
By Darren Chan
Published Mar 1, 2019
Nowadays, the rate of China’s fertilizer utilization is relatively low, a large number of the fertilizer is loss or solidified in the soil. This situation has led to many soil problems, such as salinization, hardening and acidification conditions. Why trichoderma can help soil build good conditionTrichoderma can improve soil structure. The hyphae and other substance reproduced by trichoderma can be used as a cementing material to help soil build a stable granular structure, which is porous & full of nutrition. Soil aggregate structure can balance the contradiction between water and nutrients...
Categories: Agribusiness, Corn, Organic Row Crops
Published May 5
What is the Importing Business?Imports are the goods and services imported from other countries. International trade is carried out through these transactions, including exports and imports. Importing is important for the economy of a country because it provides its people with goods and services that may be scarce, high cost, or low quality in their own country. Moreover, foreign companies usually choose to export their products so they can earn a stable profit margin and also increase sales of their goods and services... For example, fresh produce grown in China does not usually meet the quality standards of American citizens, which is why their items are often held back at customs and not allowed to proceed further...
Categories: Agribusiness
By Isla Miller
Published May 27
Recently, new progress has been made in the cloning and evolution of cold tolerance genes at the booting stage of rice completed by the Institute of Grain Making, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences in cooperation with China Agricultural University and other units, and the research result article Stepwise selection of natural variations at CTB2 and CTB4a improves cold duration adaptation domestication of japonica rice was published online in full in New phytologist (IF: 8. 51)... It was found that cold tolerance japonica rice originated in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China... , 2017), and this study analyzed and found that wild rice does not contain functional variants of CTB4a, and its cold tolerance alleles are new variants domesticated in cold environments, mainly distributed in high altitude and high latitude regions; while CTB2 has four haplotypes, one of the dominant haplotype SNPs (A) showing strong cold tolerance, which originates from common wild rice in China and has been significantly artificially selected during the cold adaptation domestication of japonica rice, gradually spreads to high latitudes, and finally enhances the cold tolerance of rice together with newly produced local CTB4a variants. It makes the planting area of rice extend from low altitude to high altitude, and finally to northeast China at high latitude, which plays an important role in the development of rice in cold areas...
Categories: Crop Protection, Rice
Updated Sep 10, 2020
The weed control measures used in soybean production need to be overhauled. The development of resistance in weeds has made current technology and management increasingly expensive and comes accompanied with heavy yield losses. Precision management solutions can reduce chemical use in several ways. Current Weed Management in SoybeansSoybean is important for the global economy as it is used as a source for oil and protein (for people and livestock) and as biodiesel. Soybean is the crop with the largest monoculture in the world and with 90% of it grown in Argentina, Brazil, the United States, China, and India...
Categories: Precision Agriculture, Soybeans
Updated Aug 9, 2020
Artificial Intelligence or AI is perhaps one of the most popular topics in the 21st century. To simply state, AI is the process wherein the computers perform complex tasks instead of humans to save time, energy, and labor. AI has had a profound impact on all walks of life, making everyday life less demanding. Agriculture is one such industry that has been continuously benefited by AI... Many nations such as the US, Australia, and China employ AI in their regular farming activities...
Categories: Precision Agriculture, Soybeans
By Angie Setzer
Published Aug 3, 2018
This Week In Agriculture:A Mixed Bag of Information from the Week that Was: August 3, 2018· Production adjustments, trade developments and rumors from a Facebook post all had an important role in this week’s trade. At the close we saw corn up 8, November beans 19 higher, with September wheat up 28... · It is nearly impossible to keep up with the back and forth when it comes to China/US trade relations as what is stated as fact in the morning one day can be completely turned around by that afternoon. The soybean market rallied aggressively Tuesday on word that China was ready to negotiate before turning abruptly lower that night after the Trump administration said it will not only press on with additional tariffs they would be 25% versus the 10% initially floated... Today we saw China announce a new list of products it would apply retaliatory tariffs to, first prompting the bean market to be 15 lower before recovering and finishing 6 higher...
By Angie Setzer
Published Jan 25, 2019
This Week in Agriculture:A Mixed Bag of Information from the Week that Was: January 25, 2019· The government shutdown is now working into its second month creating a Ground Hog Day type feel across commodity markets. The lack of official information has opened the door to rumors and uncertainty over what is really taking place when it comes to fund positions, export sales and supply availability as a whole. As a result, markets remain locked in a trading range... The markets being closed Monday gave traders time to break down what exactly a package like that would look like, and what it would take to make it happen, coming to the conclusion that though China is working towards a resolution by purchasing large amounts of agricultural or energy supplies something of that magnitude is probably not likely to happen... Considering China is holding on to over 50% of the world’s wheat this would definitely be an interesting development...
Categories: Agribusiness
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