FMC Corporation pledges 7 oxygen pressure swing adsorption plants for COVID-19 relief in India
• FMC to donate PSA plants across five states - Delhi NCR, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Gujarat
• Commits to rural awareness campaign for COVID-19
FMC India launches Science Leaders Scholarship Program to promote agricultural research
50 percent of scholarships to be allocated to female candidates
National, 08 April 2021: FMC today announced that it will launch a multi-year scholarship program to major agricultural schools across eight states in India in April 2021. The FMC Science Leaders Scholarship Program is aimed at creating greater opportunities for aspiring scientists to develop their aptitude in agricultural research.
DENMARK, May 3, 2021 – FMC Corporation, a leading agricultural sciences company, and Technical University of Denmark (DTU), an institutional leader in biotechnology research, received a 26 million Danish kroner grant from the Danish Innovation Funds for their Smarter AgroBiological Screening
(SABS) project. The grant provides funds to improve technologies for discovering and developing microbe-based biological crop protection solutions.
Currently, there is no universally accepted definition of what constitutes an illegal pesticide. However, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Best Practice Guidance (BPG) to Identify Illegal Trade of Pesticides has attempted to define an illegal pesticide as "any pesticide product that is not legal in the country where it is placed on the market.”
Such a broad definition would generally include: