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BASF and Embrapa announce a cooperation agreement
Company Information , FOOD SECURITY , Products 06/30 2011 10:31
2011-06-29
P-11-331
-Latest agreement will speed up development and introduction of new technologies and solutions for Brazilian agriculture
-Initial project will bring biological product to sugar cane growers
SÃO PAULO , BRAZIL , June 29th 2011 – BASF Crop Protection and Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA), the leading Brazilian agricultural research institution, signed an ambitious technical cooperation agreement to develop and bring new agriculture technologies and products to Brazilian growers. The cooperation brings together the expertise and know-how of both partners in the search for untapped agricultural solutions in the areas of biotechnology, genetic improvement, soil fertility and mechanization, plant protection, and physiology. The agreement is valid for five years with no limit on the number of projects to be explored. » Read More
BASF and NOD Apiary Products move ahead in effort to bring new product for bee health
Company Information , FOOD SECURITY 12/24 2010 09:09
2010-12-17
P-10-531
New product for beekeepers expected to be in European markets by 2012
Independent bee scientists support trials in three European countries
LUDWIGSHAFEN , Germany and ONTARIO, Canada December 17th, 2010 - Progressing with their pledge to bring European beekeepers an effective solution to control the parasitic varroa destructor mite, BASF and NOD Apiary Products announced first results from official registration trials conducted in Europe. Tests conducted with the help of independent bee scientists in Germany, France and the UK were promising. » Read More
BASF Plant Science and Bayer CropScience collaborate to develop higher-yielding hybrid rice
FOOD SECURITY 12/22 2010 08:56
2010-12-16
P-10-512
Global license agreement
Launch of first yield enhanced hybrid rice expected by 2020
Limburgerhof, Monheim, Germany - December 16, 2010 – BASF Plant Science and Bayer CropScience today announced a long-term collaboration agreement to improve rice productivity through plant biotechnology. The companies aim to develop and commercialize hybrid rice seeds with traits enabling yield advances of 10 percent or more over conventional hybrid rice seeds . In this global, non-exclusive agreement, BASF Plant Science licenses yield-increasing technologies to Bayer CropScience for commercialization in Bayer CropScience’s Arize® hybrid rice. The agreement encompasses all major rice growing geographies, with first products expected to be launched by 2020. » Read More
AVEBE and BASF Plant Science start R&D cooperation on genetically optimized amylopectin starch potatoes
FOOD SECURITY 12/20 2010 09:39
2010-12-14
P-10-523
Goal is a more sustainable production of starch potatoes and starch processing
Joint development of fungal resistant amylopectin starch potatoes for European farmers
Foxhol, the Netherlands and Limburgerhof, Germany – December 14, 2010. The potato starch manufacturer AVEBE and the plant biotechnology company BASF Plant Science announced today a research and development alliance in plant biotechnology. T he companies are combining their competencies in biotechnology discovery and genetically modified potato breeding with the aim of bringing farmers modern and fungal resistant starch potato varieties. They will start developing a late blight resistant amylopectin starch potato. Late blight is a serious problem in potato farming in Europe. The companies expect the first varieties to be available on the market by 2019 onwards. Financial details of the collaboration were not disclosed. » Read More
Fifty years of propionic acid manufacturing at BASF
FOOD SECURITY 09/03 2010 11:52
Versatile intermediate
Eco-efficient feed preservative
A rather acidic success story started at BASF 50 years ago: in the summer of 1960, the company brought on stream the first large-scale manufacturing plant for propionic acid at its integrated Ludwigshafen Verbund site. The inauguration of another facility that produces this carboxylic acid followed at the Nanjing site in China in 2005. Having expanded the annual capacity at these sites in 2009, which brought its total annual capacity to 149,000 metric tons, BASF is now one of the world’s major propionic acid manufacturers. This organic acid, which also occurs naturally, is valued as a preservative for feedgrain and as a building block for synthesis, for example in the production of pharmaceuticals, crop protection products and plastics. BASF has to date produced about 2.4 million metric tons of propionic acid. » Read More