Monday, July 30, 2012

China’s Economy & Dairy Industry: Cooling?


The slowdown in China’s economy during H1 has impacted on the dairy industry as expected. According to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), China’s GDP reached USD1.69 trillion (RMB10.8 trillion) in Q1, up 8.1% over Q1 2011. Whilst in theory impressive this was the 5th quarterly slowdown and the slowest rate of growth in almost 3 years. Recent estimates for Q2 tend to range between 7.2-7.5%, according to CCM International’s June issue of Dairy Products China News.

Moreover many economists suggest that in reality a growth rate of about 6% in Q1 is likely to have been a fairer reflection of the situation; this view is supported by various indicators which have proven less positive, such as production volumes of steel and cement, total export values and so on.

Electricity production — a key indicator for economic development — is a prime example: it stood at 1,144.6 billion kwh in Q1, up 7.1% over Q1 2011. However production in May was 389.8 billion kwh, just up 2.7% over May 2011. The June Purchasing Managers Index has slipped and all the figures suggest that the economy is decelerating.

The Dairy Association of China (DAC) has quoted data from NBS giving the dairy industry’s output at 5.47 million tonnes in Q1, up by only 5.8% over Q1 2011. However, this figure is 120,000 tonnes lower than that given for Q1 2011 by the China Economic Monitoring and Analysis Centre (CEMAC) – this organisation, itself part of the NBS – hasn’t released its figures this year, possibly due to the downtrend being seen.

In January-May, the output of domestic dairy products is being given as 9.37 million tonnes, up 7.1% over the same period of 2011 – this represents a slow down, as the growth rate in January-May last year (vs. the same period in 2010) was 12.1%.

Similarly, liquid milk products represented 7.93 million tonnes – up 8.3% over the same period of 2011, compared with a rise of 11.6% in the first five months of 2011.

This situation exerts great pressure on the domestic dairy industry, with some northern provinces now stockpiling milk powder. Some producers have also resorted to culling, and there have been warnings that if the situation deteriorates as in 2009, the industry will be badly hit again.

However, this is a shortsighted perspective. Recently Mr. Zhang, Vice President of School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at the Renmin University of China, noted that China’s economy currently faces a cooling period due to the problems in the real estate and equity markets — the 2 key drivers for the development of China’s economy in the past 10 years. The management rights transfer of rural farmland is expected to be the key driver of China’s next economic cycle. In China, the only way to obtain large amount of rural farmland is to invest in agriculture. At present, the Chinese government has only hinted at its intentions in this respect on CCTV – this is a likely area of policy developments once Mr. Xi Jinping takes over as State President later this year. It is clearly timely for businesses to invest in agriculture now, hence the recent expansion of groups such as COFCO, Modern Dairy, Fonterra and Yihai Kerry in the agricultural sector.

Despite the present economic difficulties, the future dairy market potential is evident. In fact, ongoing food safety concerns seems likely to represent a much more significant problem for the local dairy industry: this is amply highlighted by processors who need to recombine relying on imported milk powder whilst some local milk powder producers are left with capital tied up in stocks!

Source: Dairy Products China News  1206
http://www.cnchemicals.com/Newsletter/NewsletterDetail_22.html

Content of Dairy Products China News 1206:
Further Revision of Standards for Dairy Products Likely
China’s Economy & Dairy Industry: Cooling?
Average Market Prices of Imported WMP & SMP Decrease
Dairy Processors Focus on Largescale Dairy Farms
Government Releases 12th Five-Year Plan for National Food Safety Standards
Government Strengthens Supervision of the Feed Sector
Maiquer Applies for Listing
Flower Cow Milk’s Development Strategy
Fengxing Dairy’s 60th Anniversary
Bright Dairy: Premium Development Strategy
Government Strengthens Livestock Breeding Subsidy
Hongxing Dairy Launches Value Range

Dairy Products China News, a monthly publication issued by CCM International on the 30th/31st of every month, brings you the latest information on new market dynamics, company dynamics, new dairy products and consumption trend, new legislations and policies and raw milk supply dynamics that are shaping the market.


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Unified Management Bothers Traditional Pesticide Sales Model


Since the policy, namely Regulations of Professionally Unified Management on Pest and Disease (Regulations for short), has been carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture of China from 1 Aug., 2011, China has largely promoted unified management on pests and diseases in the whole country. So far, some provinces in China have well implemented the Regulations and achieved good effect on pest and disease management, based on CCM International’s latest issue of Crop Protection China News.

Although the policy has been well implemented and largely supported by peasants in some provinces in the past few months, it, in deed, brought impact to traditional pesticide sales model in these areas.

Take Hunan Province for example, the number of the professional organizations providing unified pest and disease control services reached over 1,313 in 2012. The total management areas in the contract signed by these organizations with peasants for offering services reached 1 million ha., accounting for over 20% of the total crop planting areas in Hunan Province this year.

As the professional team's demand for pesticide is much larger compared with that from single peasant, usually they'd rather choose to directly purchase pesticides from pesticide enterprises than from retailers and dealers. By this means, pesticide purchasing of professional teams avoids paying extra cost not only to retailers, but also to those pesticide dealers in the middle link of traditional pesticide sales model.

Since the large amount of pesticide sales has been suddenly cut off by unified management services, many pesticide retailers suffered great loss in the past few months. It is reported that over 8,000 pesticide retailers have went bankrupt in Hunan Province since the Regulations was carried out.

Actually, not only pesticide retailers and dealers suffered loss in the large promotion of unified management services, but also some of the large pesticide enterprises may confront big challenges.

Shenzhen Noposion Agrochemical Co., Ltd. (Noposion), one of the large pesticide formulation enterprises in China, now owns two different sales models. One is that Noposion directly sells pesticide to county-level distributors. These county-level distributors then sell pesticides to retailers. This kind of sales model contributes to most revenue of Noposion.

In late 2009, Noposion started to build another sales network in consideration of its long term development–selling pesticides directly to retailers. Aiming to build up the new sales model as fast as possible, Noposion continuously added a lot of investment in the past two years which led to a decline in net profit growth year by year.

Although Noposion has disclosed that the construction of the new sales model was still under way, some insiders doubted that the new sales model will not perform as well as the company imagined. And they believed that the pesticide sales model of unified management services which ignores the sales links of pesticide in traditional sales model will become one of the main factors that impact Noposion's new sales model.

Another pesticide enterprise in China, namely Jiangsu Huifeng Agrochemical Co., Ltd. (Jiangsu Huifeng), also considered unified management services as one of the main impact factors of its IPO project, namely the county-level pesticide marketing network construction project.

Considering the difficulties it may face in the process of building up so many retail stores and the impact from unified management services, the company decided to change the raised project into building up Shanghai marketing center.

Aiming to cut down the number of sales links, directly supply pesticides to retailers and decrease the cost of peasants, Jiangsu Huifeng planned to widely promote the new sales model in China, namely Pesticide Direct Supply and Sales, by raising money from IPO (it got listed on 27 Oct., 2010).  The final aim of the new sales model was to build an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) information management system and set up over 20,000 retail stores in county level. 

As China now dedicates itself to developing modernized agriculture, the promotion of unified management is considered to be an irresistible trend. The traditional sales model in China may experience great changes in the first place during the promotion process. Large pesticide dealers in China may make some changes to their pesticide sales model or set up professional management teams to adapt the trend. Laying effort to build up good relationship with large professional unified management companies is also considered to be a good choice.


Background information

Professionally unified management on pest and disease is a kind of socialized, large-scale and intensive pests and disease control services which are led by professional teams with well-trained and experienced technicians. Eyeing the better effect on pest and disease management and lower cost it brings to peasants, it has been successfully promoted in many developed countries in the world. Although China has tried to promote this kind of measure years ago, it failed to wholly promote it to the whole country. The releasing of the Regulations is considered to be Chinese government's first official policy to promote professionally unified management on pest and disease and it also showed the Chinese government's great ambitious of wholly promoting the management measures in China.

Source: Crop Protection China News 1213

Content of Crop Protection China News 1213:
Unified management bothers traditional pesticide sales model
HS Code classification of paraquat TK raises dispute between enterprises and GAC
Total import volume of corn increases sharply from Jan. to May 2012
Use of abamectin ointment may be legalized
China accelerates integration of pesticide industry
Anhui Huaxing to relaunch reorganization
Jiangsu Yangnong may see good performance in 2012
More and more pesticide manufacturers set foot in fertilizer industry
Sipcam Agro China to put pesticides into Chinese market

Crop Protection China News, a semimonthly publication issued by CCM International on 15th and 30th(31st) of every month, aims to gain a deep insight into Chinese market, supply the latest market data and strategy support, analyze the newest legislation and policy and grasp the future market trend.


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ICAMA Implements Paraquat Restriction


Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture, P.R. China (ICAMA) issued new regulations on paraquat registration in early June, 2012, in a move to follow the official decision to restrict paraquat SL in China, according to CCM International’s July issue of Herbicides China News.

On April 24, 2012, three Chinese governmental departments—the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) jointly proclaimed an announcement to restrict paraquat SL in consideration of "human safety in agricultural production". According to one term of the new regulations, all current product labels as well as all current registrations and production permits of paraquat SL products must be modified before Jan. 1, 2013, otherwise they will be cancelled as a result. (Herbicides China News 1205: China takes restriction on paraquat)

Specializing in nationwide pesticide registration and administration with the main responsibilities for registration, quality control, bioassay and residue monitoring of pesticides, supervision of pesticide markets, information-sharing, international cooperation and other services, in terms of paraquat registration, ICAMA drew up detailed administrative regulations as below:

1. All provincial institutes for the control of agrochemicals should immediately stop administrative acceptance and sanction on the field experiments and the application for registration of paraquat TK and paraquat SL (including single SL and mixed SL).

2. Paraquat SL manufacturers in China should update relevant registration certificates and permit labels before Oct. 31, 2012:
a) Paraquat SL manufacturers should provide the original registration certificate, the original label specimen, the substance label, as well as new label specimen, origin proof of TK, illustration of product composition, 24-hour first aid hotline, etc., when they apply the modification of paraquat registration;

b) Safety warning slogan should be featured in new paraquat SL label specimen with intense color contrast or large character size;

c) New label specimen should also include 24-hour first aid hotline. And the specialized 24-hour service of paraquat first aid should be provided by experienced medical personnel in the general hospital.


3. Those unmodified or unsanctioned paraquat labels will be cancelled and new paraquat products without new label will be forbidden to come on the market in China after Jan. 1, 2013.


4. Emetic, odor agents and colorant should be added into the paraquat TK products. And those paraquat TK manufacturers who want to own paraquat SL export qualification should apply for the paraquat SL export registration by modifying current SL registrations with their active TK and SL registration certificates and production permits after July 1, 2014, when all current registrations and production permits of paraquat SL and mixed paraquat SL will be cancelled in China except the export ones.


5. Others:
a) Paraquat TK source of SL manufacturers should be relatively stable, and must be checked by ICAMA if the TK source changes;

b) Paraquat SL manufacturers should ensure that current old-labelled paraquat will be withdrawn from circulation in China after Dec. 31, 2013, and new-labelled paraquat will also be withdrawn from Chinese market after July 1, 2016, when all products of paraquat SL are forbidden to sell and apply in China. The SL products are recommended to be packed in plastic bottles with thin bottleneck in the future so that the liquid outflow time can be prolonged. It's necessary to make a record of material purchase, production and sales, and the finished paraquat SL should be companied with instruction, first aid booklet and active carbon;

c) Provincial institutes for the control of agrochemicals should aggressively promote and implement the decision about paraquat restriction. And examinations and checks will be implemented by ICAMA and relevant governmental departments in the future.

(Relative background and details about the official decision of paraquat restriction in China were mentioned in Herbicides China News 1205: China takes restriction on paraquat; other relative discussions were reported in Herbicides China News 1202, 1206.)

Source: Herbicides China News 1207
http://www.cnchemicals.com/Newsletter/NewsletterDetail_11.html

Content of Herbicides China News 1207:
ICAMA implements paraquat restriction
Key regulations for pesticide industrial integration in China
Great expectation on Yangnong Chemical in 2012
Lier Chemical confirms relocation of Jiangsu Kuaida
Hisun Chemical plans new pesticide plant
Shangyu Nutrichem boosts its pesticide productivity
Semi-annual review of herbicide industry in China
Chinese acetochlor export remains unaffected by the EU restriction
Metolachlor should meet nice prospect in China
Tianyi Agrochemical runs pilot production of HGE herbicide
… …

Herbicides China News, a monthly publication issued by CCM International on 15th of every month, provides you with the latest occurrences, exclusive analysis on the market trend as well as professional reviews on competitiveness of companies, products and relative industries in China’s herbicide industry.


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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

China to Become Main Force for Global DAP Market from June


Although China is weaker than the US in pricing power for DAP in the international market (Note: According to the previous situation, China’s DAP producers or DAP traders were apt to follow the contract price set by the US-based Phosphate Chemicals Export Association, Inc. (PCEA) and India’s purchasers), China is still to become the main force in global DAP market from June to September, 2012, according to CCM International’s July issue of Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report.

China and the US are the top two exporters of DAP worldwide—accounting for 70% of the international market; while India is the biggest importer of DAP in the world. In 2011, China and the US respectively exported 4.02 million tonnes and 3.97 million tonnes of DAP. Amongst the exports, most were exported to India, respectively reaching 2.103 million tonnes and 2.41 tonnes.
 
In general, China’s DAP producers and traders would export proper export volumes of DAP according to the export policy each year —increasing export volumes in low export tax season (the details of China’s export tariff for DAP in recent three years could be seen in page 6 issue 1, Vol.2: CTCSC continues to restrain export of phosphate fertilizer, and in page 6 issue 2, Vol.1: Export tariff curbs urea and DAP export in H1 2011).
 
Therefore, with the opening of the window for DAP’s low tariff in China from June to September of 2012, China is bound to export large amounts of DAP during this period. Based on the export situation during the previous year, nearly 64% of total was exported (Note: There’s no change in the definition of peak season and slack season between 2011 and 2012).

Relatively speaking, the current supply of DAP in Russian Federation and the US was tighter than that in the previous year.
 
Firstly, the yield of DAP in Russian Federation and the US decreased relatively. During the first quarter of 2012, the US-based and Russia-based DAP producers—The Mosaic Company and PhosAgro both cut their production.
 
Secondly, the US was seeing a surge in domestic consumption of DAP, which will weaken its international supply ability. According to the data from The Fertilizer Institute (TFI), the strong demand for DAP in the US led to a low inventory in May 2012, which has decreased by 27% month on month to 251,000 tonnes.
 
Contrary to Russian Federation and the US, China is expected to contribute more force to the international market of DAP. In 2012, there’re nearly more productivity excess of DAP in China, because of the release of 1,000,000t/a new capacity during the first half of 2012.

As for the international demand for DAP, it mainly depends on the prime purchaser—India which consumes over 50% of the exported DAP worldwide.
 
It’s predicted that India’s import volume of DAP won’t be less than that of last year, and is expected to remain around 7 million tonnes according to the previous data.

Source: Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report 1207

Content of Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report 1207:
Phosphorus Ore
Company Dynamics: Wengfu Group strives for improvement of self-sufficiency
Industry Dynamics: Rare earth accompanying resources to boost value of phosphorus ore  
Global Sight: Battle for phosphorus resources grows in Russia
Yellow Phosphorus
Policy & Legislation: Kaiyang's subsidy for yellow phosphorus producer to face challenge 
Phosphate Fertilizer
Policy & Legislation: Declined export guarantee money for DAP to relieve traders' pressure
Company Dynamics: China BlueChemical to rank among forefront of phosphate industry 
International Market Dynamics: China to become main force for global DAP market from June
Policy & Legislation: Role of phosphate fertilizer reserve stratagem is changing
Fine Phosphate Chemical
Industry Dynamics: APP attracts investment from medium phosphorus enterprises   
Company Dynamics: Hubei Xingfa appreciates development of food-grade phosphate chemicals 
… …

Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report, a monthly publication issued by CCM International on 15th of every month, provides you the latest information on company dynamic, industry dynamic, factors impacting the price fluctuation, technology improvement, supply & demand of China's phosphorus industry.


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Enterprises Appeal for Policy Support for Pesticide Formulation Export


On 7 June, 2012, the 18th Conference of the 5th Council of China Crop Protection Industry Association was successfully held in Nanchang City of Jiangxi Province, participated by nearly 200 experts from pesticide R&D, production and management departments. A large number of domestic enterprises appealed for policy support for pesticide formulation export at the meeting, according to CCM International’s July issue of Fungicides China News.

It is well known that China is one of the big countries of pesticide production with over 260 technical and 3,000 formulations. Data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS) show that the total output of pesticides has reached about 2.65 million tonnes in China in 2011.
 
Besides, China is also one of the biggest pesticide export countries all over the world. For instance, China exported pesticides to over 180 foreign countries and regions, reaching the highest level in history in 2011; the total export volume witnessed a sound growth last year, hitting around 1.41 million tonnes, up 15.65% compared with that in 2010. 

Before 2011, Chinese export volume of pesticide technical has been larger than that of pesticide formulations. As hoped, this situation eventually changed in the previous year. In detail, China's export volume of pesticide formulations in 2011 was about 0.75 million tonnes, up 26.66% year on year, while that of pesticide technical was about 0.66 million tonnes, only up 5.10% year on year.
 
As formulations exceed technical by export volume, Chinese pesticide industry will play an increasingly important role worldwide. However, some related policies are no good for the development of domestic pesticide formulation industry, which negatively impacts the adjustment of pesticide industrial structure to a certain extent.
 
Specifically, Chinese export tax rebate rate of pesticide technical is usually 9%, while that of pesticide formulations is only 5%. As a result, this topsy-turvy phenomenon of export tax rebate rate can hardly raise the enthusiasm of pesticide enterprises to extend their industrial chain with higher additional value products–pesticide formulations. 

Under the circumstances, most enterprises prefer to export pesticide technical in consideration of the higher export tax rebate rate. However, these domestic enterprises that produce pesticide technical still act as "outsources" in the chain of international pesticide trade. Meanwhile, the pollution caused by producing pesticide technical in significant quantities is very serious in China, which goes against environmental protection to a great extent.
 
To better promote the adjustment of China's pesticide industrial structure and thus facilitate its own brand products to enter into international terminal market, domestic enterprises hope that relevant state departments give policy support to domestic pesticide formulation export–increasing the export tax rebate of pesticide formulations and change the topsy-turvy phenomenon between pesticide technical and formulations. 

Although the export tax rebate policy is important, enterprises should not focus on policy support. On the contrary, they ought to constantly strengthen product innovation to firmly occupy international market. Only in this way can China be a more powerful country in global pesticide industry in the future. 

Source: Fungicides China News 1207

Main content of Fungicides China News 1207:
Acquisition promotes Huifeng Agrochemcial's performance in Q1 2012
Anhui Huilong successfully acquires 60% share of HAMP 
Sichuan Guoguang's application for IPO at initial audit stage 
Lier Chemical: H1 performance to exceed forecast  
Epoxiconazole wins approval of more and more rice growers in China 
Bismerthiazol greets a favorable return
Traditional pesticide sales system may be subverted in Hunan
Yancheng Limin's relocation projects start trial production
Weier Chemical to build 200t/a fluazinam production line
SCCESCUT successfully develops methane dithiocyanate 10% SC
Rice diseases and insect pests spreading rapidly
… …

Fungicides China News, a monthly publication issued by CCM International on 10th of every month, provides a wealth of exclusive information and analysis, research and development dynamics of domestic competitors, analysis on import and export of key products, cooperative opportunities with domestic and foreign companies, and market information of foreign patent-expired products.


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Botanical Insecticide Production Base Settles in Henan


On 9 June, 2012, the foundation-laying ceremony of a botanical insecticide production base was held in Sheqi County, a key tobacco planting region in Henan Province. By extracting nicotine and solanesol from tobacco and other plants, the production base aims to supply low-toxic and inexpensive biological insecticides to domestic farmers, according to CCM International’s July issue of Insecticides China News.
 
After being put into operation in 2013, the production base will be able to process 70,000 tonnes of plant raw materials each year, outputting 300 tonnes of 98% botanical nicotine with purity over 98% and 420 tonnes of botanical solanesol with purity over 90%. Eventually, about 40,000 tonnes of biological insecticides and 50,000 tonnes of bio-organic fertilizers would be produced with a maximum capacity annually.
 
The production base totally covers an area of 27 ha., with total investment of nearly USD95.24 million (RMB600 million) from Henan Boyi Investment Co., Ltd. (Henan Boyi, a prominent high-tech biological investor in Henan Province). It is expected that an annual revenue of USD439.60 million (RMB2.8 billion) would be generated after the formal launch.
 
According to Liu Gang, President of Henan Boyi, the sub-critical fluid extraction technology will be applied to extract nicotine and solanesol from tobacco leaf and other plant materials. Compared with conventional extraction methods, this technology owns multiple advantages, such as environmentally friendly, perfectly maintaining the activity of extracts, energy saving, low operation cost, etc. Mr. Liu also revealed that botanical pesticides will be developed and produced relied on the effective compounding of target products extracted from plant materials. 
 
The biological insecticide production project of Henan Boyi reveives strong support from governments for its merits of energy-conservative and eco-friendly. Delegates from the Ministry of Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences and local government took part in the foundation-laying ceremony. 

Botanical insecticides are a hot field of research at present. Several botanical insecticides have been applied by domestic farmers at present, such as matrine, nicotine, rotenone, pyrethrins and azadirachtin.
 
Eco-friendliness, easy degradation, low residue and low resistance generated by pests make botanical pesticides well recognized, which are superior to chemical pesticides. Botanical pesticides are embracing a great development chance, said Director Zhang Xing from Northwest A&F University.
 
Highly toxic pesticides are banned one after another in China, while eco-friendly pesticides, like botanical insecticides, are enjoying a steadily increasing demand. As mentioned in the Decision on Speeding up Cultivation and Development of Strategic Infant Industry promulgated by the State Council, the Chinese government will "pay attention to cultivate biological breeding industry and promote green agricultural biological products to stimulate the development of biological agriculture" in the future. 

Source: Insecticides China News 1207

Main content of Insecticides China News 1207:
Where is the way out of abamectin ointment?
Huayang Group to transfer shares in Huayang Technology
Jiangsu Taisong finishes relocating technical production lines of diazinon, pyridaben
Jiangsu Sword expands nitenpyram technical capacity to 1,000t/a 
China's imidacloprid export volume rises in Jan.-April
Botanical insecticide production base settles in Henan
Mosquito repellents generally contain DEET and BAAPE
Zhejiang Dongfeng opens up Egypt's pesticide market
… …

Insecticides China News, a monthly publication issued by CCM International on 10th of every month, provides the latest and influential analysis on insecticide industry for you, including company dynamics, supply and demand, price analysis, policy, raw material and intermediate.

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