Syngenta AG News

Monsanto's Bt corn was supposed to reduce pesticide use. The Environmental Protection Agency said as much when the corn, which is genetically modified to resist the crop-ravaging rootworm, debuted in 2003.

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Syngenta and DuPont today announced technology licensing agreements that will broaden each company's crop protection product portfolio and enable both to bring new products to market more efficiently.

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Basel, Switzerland, - -Syngenta today acknowledged that European Union Member States for the second time failed to agree on the European Commission's proposal for a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides.

The European Union will ban three of the world's most widely-used pesticides for two years because of fears they are linked to a plunge in the population of bees critical to the production of crops.

Syngenta Hawaii said it is moving the research portion of its Kunia Research Station from Oahu to its facility on Kauai by the end of the second quarter While some of the 70 workers at Kunia will transfer to the Kekaha station on Kauai, the move will result in the loss of 20 to 25 jobs, a spokesman for Syngenta's U.S. operations said.

THE European Commission will impose the world's first continent-wide ban on three pesticides which environmentalists say are killing the bees that pollinate Europe's crops.

For the second time EU Member States have failed to agree on a proposal for a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides.

The European Union will ban three of the world's most widely-used pesticides for two years because of fears they are linked to a plunge in the population of bees critical to the production of crops.