Researchers at Kao Corporation’s Personal Health Care Products Research Laboratory and Material Science Research Laboratory have developed a surfactant spray that neutralises mosquitoes’ water-repellent capabilities without the use of insecticides, Intelligent Living wrote.

Malaysian publicly-owned government company Sirim Berhad, Japanese packaging producer Fujimori Kogyo Co – known as Zacros – and the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) are working together on a project to produce polyhydroxy alkanoates (PHA) from waste vegetable cooking oil.

The EU-27 is likely to harvest less rapeseed due to drought conditions in the region earlier in the year, dropping below Canada to become the second largest global rapeseed producer, Germany’s Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants (UFOP) wrote.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has promised free grain supplies to six African countries following the collapse of the Black Sea Grain Initiative (BSGI), The Guardian reported.

Global agribusiness giant ADM has reported a drop in oilseed profits but strong performances in food oil and biodiesel in its second quarter results.

US agricultural bioscience company Yield10 Bioscience has filed a request for a regulatory status review (RSR) of its camelina varieties containing genes to produce the eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) component of omega-3 oil.

German chemical giant the Bayer Group has adjusted its full-year outlook mainly due to a further decline in sales of glyphosate-based products.

Bulgaria’s oilseed production in 2023/24 is expected to remain steady due to average forecasts for rapeseed and sunflowerseed yields, according to a report by the United Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS).

A Russian drone strike has hit port facilities in the Odessa region of Ukraine including the inland port of Izmail across the Danube River from NATO member Romania, the BBC reported on 2 August.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has revised its forecast for Argentina’s drought-hit soyabean crop downwards to 21.25M tonnes for the 2022/23 marketing year in its latest Global Agricultural Information Network (GAIN) report.

Russian multinational energy corporation company Lukoil has been testing algae-based biodiesel at its refinery in Bulgaria.

Chinese imports of soyabeans are expected to increase due to the country’s rising demand for soyabean meal and soyabean oil, according to a report by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Portuguese oil company Galp’s plan for an industrial-scale plant to produce biodiesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from waste materials has been approved by Portugal’s environment agency, Reuters reported.