STAR ADVERTISER / August 31, 2016 / Syngenta, a Swiss agribusiness behemoth, announced a decision Tuesday to seek a buyer for its Hawaii operations, which include nearly 6,000 acres of land it l ...
INDUSTRY NEWS
Why Do Farmers Use Pesticides?
PUTTING PESTICIDES IN PERSPECTIVE / Aug 30, 2016 / Why do farmers treat their crops with pesticides? The simple answer is because of pests – a wide range of organisms that eat, infect, rot, co ...
INFOGRAPHIC: How Do GMOs Help Preserve H2O?
GMO ANSWERS / August 30, 2016 / How do GMOs help preserve H2O? GM crops can decrease the rate at which water is lost through transpiration, while improving yield in drought conditions with crops ...
Water For Sustainable Growth: How Biotechnology Crops Are One Solution
FORBES / August 30, 2016 / Over the weekend, more than 2,500 of the world’s experts, practitioners, policymakers and business innovators began to gather in Sweden to advance thinking and devel ...
Syngenta’s Statement on Selling Hawaii Operations
SYNGENTA / August 30, 2016 / Syngenta announced today plans to sell its two operations in the State, on Oahu and Kauai, in order to pursue a different operating model and will seek to contract c ...
Priorities
HAWAIIFARMERSDAUGHTER / August 29, 2016 / In just a few days, the World Conservation Congress will be convening in Hawaii to talk about the environment. President Obama will also fly here and m ...
Kekaha Syngenta Helps Louisiana
THE GARDEN ISLAND / August 27, 2016 / Forty-five Syngenta employees in Louisiana were displaced due to flooding in the area, said Beth Tokioka of Syngenta. This motivated a fundraising effort ...
Shrinking Syngenta?
THE GARDEN ISLAND / August 27, 2016 / There could be more land available for diversified agriculture on Kauai’s Westside if a Syngenta request to withdraw 847 acres of land from what they leas ...
China Moves to Buy Syngenta
THE GARDEN ISLAND / August 24, 2016 / A potential $43 billion buy-out of Syngenta by China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) was approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the Un ...
Hilo High Grad Makes CRISPR 'Discovery of the Century'
HAMAKUA SPRINGS / August 24, 2016 / Are you familiar with CRISPr gene-editing technology? It’s been called the discovery of the century, but it’s not well known yet outside of science circle ...
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