DowDuPont's agriculture business, Corteva Agriscience, expects reported 2019 sales to be nearly flat with the prior year, up 1-2% organically.

BASF Venture Capital is investing $2 million into the US-based seed-stage venture fund, Alchemist Accelerator.

The US technology company, Cibus (San Diego, California), has postponed its plans for an initial public offering (IPO) of shares of its common stock.

Cayman Islands-based investment company Tiger Capital Fund is to join investment company Longhan Investment Management to invest in Chinese agricultural biotechnology company Origin Agritech (Beijing).

Indian company NACL Industries (known as Nagarjuna Agrichem until September 2017) is to raise around Rs 1,150 million ($16.1 million) through the issue of equity and equity warrants to an incoming investor and the existing promoter.

UAP business Arysta LifeScience is launching its ProNutiva programmes, already established in South America, in Italy and other European countries.

Australian seed company Seed Force has opened its “purpose-built” national headquarters at Shepparton in Victoria, New South Wales.

Peru’s Campo Limpio (Clean Field) programme won the national Antonio Brack Egg 2018 environment prize for its programme on disposal and recycling of empty pesticide containers.

South African company Omnia Holdings' Cayman Islands-based biologicals subsidiary business, Oro Agri, is establishing a business in Turkey.

The US technology company, Cibus (San Diego, California), is launching an initial public offering (IPO) of shares of its common stock.

US agricultural inputs company Ag Partners (Albert City, Iowa) is installing a “state-of-the-art” seed treatment system at Morristown, Minnesota.

French co-operative group InVivo’s biologicals business, Bioline, and Spanish biocontrols company Biocolor have launched a joint venture, Bioline Iberia.