Crop Industry News: Switzerland
02 November 2020

In a new study, researchers from the University of Bern developed an experimental approach that may be used to improve a wide range of organisms that rely on microbial symbionts to control insect...
09 October 2020

The "PaNDiv" experiment, established by researchers of the University of Bern on a 3000 m2 field site, is the largest biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiment in Switzerland and aims to...
09 April 2015

SWITZERLAND – Half of Swiss farm receipts come from farm support measures and major trade barrier reductions should be rolled out to address this....
14 November 2013

SWITZERLAND - A biocontrol and pest management arsenal has been launched as part of an online resource in Basel this week. ...
22 April 2013

SWITZERLAND - European taxpayers and consumers spent between 9.3 and 10.7 billion euros subsidising biofuels in 2011 with relatively small gains for the environment and the economy, according...
15 March 2013

SWITZERLAND - Genetically modified (GM) cotton plants contain a poison that protects them from their most significant enemies. As a result, these plants rely less on their own defence system....
04 March 2013

SWITZERLAND - A Swiss government-protected field site dedicated for use in genetically modified (GM) crop studies could serve as an example to other European countries interested in pursuing...
12 November 2012

SWITZERLAND - DuPont Pioneer recently prevailed in a major European patent challenge to its bacterial strain used in the Pioneer® brand inoculants portfolio. The decision in favor of Pioneer...
06 October 2011

SWITZERLAND - Switzerland's fight to maintain non-genetically modified (GM) crops in the face of a larger pool of world GM seeds has been given a boost by researchers at the ACW (Agroscope Changins-Wädenswil)...
26 September 2011

SWITZERLAND - What research is needed to eradicate hunger? Is Switzerland on the right track? These questions were the focus of a public event organised by SWISSAID and the Centre for Development...
20 April 2011

SWITZERLAND - Sales in the first quarter of 2011 increased by 13 per cent at constant exchange rates. Volume expanded by 14 per cent, representing the fourth consecutive quarter of double digit...
03 December 2010

SWITZERLAND - The US Grains Council built on its long-standing presence at the Global Grains Conference to promote US sorghum and distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS) to almost 900...
11 June 2010

SWITZERLAND – Researchers at a Swiss university have discovered a microscopic fungus that may be able to speed up the growth of rice by five times, a French news agency has reported....
12 August 2009

SWITZERLAND - Work has begun to expand Switzerland's biggest wind farm and quadruple the amount of power generated....
17 June 2009

SWITZERLAND - Romande Energie, acting through its subsidiary Romande Energie Renouvelable, and ewz, the electricity utility in Zurich, have formed a consortium to launch a wind-farm project in...
08 May 2009

SWITZERLAND - Switzerland is planning the country's first sugar cane ethanol plant....
08 April 2009

SWITZERLAND - GATE Global Alternative Energy International, part of Swiss private equity holding Fortune Management Inc has sold its biodiesel operation GATE Global Alternative Energy Holding...
26 September 2008

INDIA - Syngenta has received the 2008 World Business and Development Award (WBDA) for the development and successful introduction of a new sugar beet that can be grown under tropical climate...
10 September 2008

SWITZERLAND - The battle for sustainability must be won in the cities, suburbs and slums as much as in the forests, lakes and seas, WWF Director General James Leape will tell a key "One Planet...
24 July 2008

SWITZERLAND - Brazil has called for better market access for exports of ethanol to the United States and Europe as part of global trade talks....
24 April 2008

SWITZERLAND - Heated debate on bioenergy: Can it really cover our energy needs? Is it really so ecological? Are the farmers using it to guarantee more governmental support? What does the WTO...