Wyma Solutions announced recently that it has won the 2021 Kordia Champion Producer/Manufacturer award in New Zealand. The award is a recognition of Wyma’s ongoing commitment to meeting the challenges and needs of the industry and the company’s customers, and is one of the Westpac Champion Business Awards. The Westpac Champion Business Awards recognise and celebrate the excellence, innovation, and success […]
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Weed pressure was low this year and damage from nematodes was not too bad. Next year, the roles may be reversed again, and then it is important to take a good look at the nematode problem. The time of year has come to reflect on the past season. 2021 Will go down in the books as a […]
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Mack Farms is a member of Fresh Solutions Network, which has helped not only to expand the reach of their business, but to share with others in the potato industry the pioneering spirit that has made them so successful. By all accounts, Arnold Mack was a pioneer in the fresh produce industry. After a short […]
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E Green Global Co. Ltd. (EGG) recently announced that it has raised additional equity funding from ADB Ventures, the venture capital arm of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The advanced crop technology company EGG has secured USD15m Series B funding in total, including an investment from the YD-SK-KDB Social Value Fund, to scale its agri-biotech […]
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The revocation of registration granted to the global food giant Pepsico by India’s Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights’ Authority (PPV&FRA) further muddies an already unclear picture for the seed and bio-technology innovation sector in India, writes senior journalist R Srinivasan in an article for The Hindu’s Business Line. Srinivasan says global media reports with headlines like […]
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India proceeded with the revocation of the intellectual protection granted to PepsiCo’s FC5 potato variety, saying that the country’s rules do not allow a patent on seed varieties, in line with an order issued recently by the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights (PPVFR) Authority. The FC5 potato variety was grown exclusively for PepsiCo […]
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