Agri-Business

UK: WBF urges regulatory reform over biologicals

The UK Government’s revised National Action Plan (NAP) for the Sustainable Use of Pesticides (2025) was published to reduce pesticide risk and promote more sustainable crop protection practices. However, for the World BioProtection Forum (WBF)—the voice of the biologicals industry—this plan represents a…

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Co-op: Profit and membership growth

Birthday Bonanza: Aldi set to treat shoppers who share its birthdayAldi reported: “Aldi is celebrating its 35th anniversary in the UK with a unique giveaway for shoppers who share the same birthday. Britain’s fourth-largest supermarket, which opened its first UK store on 5th April 1990, is inviting…

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“Fair Trade produce is on fire”

Bananas. Berries. Tomatoes. What do these three produce items have in common? Paul Rice knows. As the founder of Fair Trade USA and author of the new book, Every Purchase Matters, available starting April 8, he knows that in produce, these three are the top Fair Trade produce items. “Fair Trade produce last year in the U.S.…

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China: Using AI tov harvest a smarter future

“After integrating with the DeepSeek large model, our team trained the robots through tens of thousands of images to improve their pest identification accuracy, which has exceeded 80 percent,” said Wu Yuanqing, the robots’ developer. Once the accuracy is improved, these robots can help farmers increase…

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