Review of Anhui Huaxing’s performance in H1 2013

Anhui Huaxing, a listed herbicide and insecticide manufacturer in China, achieved a revenue increase of 38.08% YoY in H1 2013, reaching USD115.44 million. According to the company, the revenue growth was mainly due to its product promotion at home and aboard and the product structure adjustment. Another cause was that one of its wholly subsidiaries namely Anhui Linearfull Modern Agriculture Co., Ltd. witnessed an outstanding revenue growth, increasing to USD38.74 million in H1 2013, from USD11.38 million in H1 2012.

 

Meanwhile, Anhui Huaxing's net profit turned loss into gain in the half year. In H1 2012, Anhui Huaxing suffered a loss of USD0.88 million. Owning to the price rise of glyphosate in H1 2013, the company's net profit in the half year turned to be positive—USD2.15 million.

 

Pesticides, as Anhui Huaxing's major business, brought revenue of about USD84.24 million in H1 2013, up 6.77% YoY. The gross profit margin of it increased by 6.79 percentage points YoY as well, reaching 19.44% in the first half year. Among the company's sub-industries of pesticides, fungicides' YoY revenue growth and gross profit margin in H1 2013 were 29.22% and 27.91% respectively, much higher than the others, even though the proportion that fungicide products accounted in the total revenue was less than insecticide and herbicide products accounted.

 

Sales performance of Anhui Huaxing gained improvement in both domestic market and overseas market in H1 2013, with a revenue growth of 29.33% and 24.54% YoY respectively. The revenue at home captured a bigger proportion, reaching USD81.98 million, compared with USD32.81 million from the overseas market.

 

According to Anhui Huaxing, the pesticide projects it invests in currently mainly includes relocation projects of 5,000t/a glyphosate, 6,000t/a monosultap and 6,000t/a bisultap. As of the end of H1 2013, 60.06% of the relocation project process of glyphosate had been completed, and that of monosultap and bisultap had completed 7.69%.

 

Last but not least, it is worth noting that cash inflow on Anhui Huaxing's financial activities in H1 2013 reached USD332.17 million, which was attributed to the additional new stocks issued for CEFC Shanghai Oil Group Co., Ltd. (CEFC Shanghai). Due to the financial activities, Anhui Huaxing's leadership had been adjusted and Anhui Huaxing has become a subsidiary of CEFC Shanghai. As a result, Anhui Huaxing's total assets increased by 98.87% on 30 June, 2013, compared with that in the beginning of 2013, and its total liability dropped 49.70% in the closing balance, compared with that in the opening balance.

Source: Crop Protection China Monthly Report issued by CCM in August.

Table of Contents of Crop Protection China Monthly Report:

The rank of domestic listed pesticide enterprises by different indexes

Jiangsu Changqing

Jiangsu Huifeng

Lianhe Chemical

Hefei Fengle

Sanonda

Qianjiang Biochemical

Noposion

Nanjing Redsun

ABA chemicals

Shandong Shengli

Huapont-Nutrichem

Lier Chemical

Hebei Veyong

Shenghua Biok

Nantong Jiangshan

Zibo Wanchang

Zhejiang Wynca

Anhui Huaxing

Jiangsu Lanfeng

Jiangsu Yangnong

Hunan Haili

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High-toxic insecticide aldicarb involved in food safety scandal

In May 2013, an insecticide namely aldicarb (Brand name in Chinese: Shennongdan) involved in a food scandal which happened in the rural areas of Weifang City, Shandong Province. It has been confirmed that some farmers in the areas had been overusing aldicarb, which is an illegal and highly toxic insecticide to grow gingers, leading to public condemnation. The increasing number of food safety scandals these years in China not only indicates the weakness of pesticide supervision and management, but also reflects farmers' habit of choosing pesticides: pursuit for low price, quick and high efficacy in China, according to CCM’s latest issue of Insecticides China News.

As a highly poisonous carbamate insecticide, just 50 milligrams of aldicarb is enough to kill a person weighing 50kg. According to the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA), aldicarb is only allowed to use on cotton, tobacco, peanuts, roses and sweet potatoes under highly strict rules on application. However, on 4 May, 2013, an investigative report by China Central Television (CCTV) revealed that farmers in Weifang had been using 120-300kg/ha. aldicarb for growing gingers, nearly three to six times above the safe level for targeted crops mentioned above. This is entirely a threat to public health and infringement to the rules of the ICAMA.

What's more shocking is that ginger farmers actually did recognize aldicarb's toxicity. One interviewee said that she was aware of the high toxicity of the product and dared not to use it in fields where gingers are grown for export and her family, her aldicarb-contaminated gingers were sold on the domestic markets. Another respondent said he had been using aldicarb for more than 20 years since it was first introduced to the market, as it has a stronger control effect on insect pests and nematodes and a lower price than other products.

There are multiple reasons for the emergence of aldicarb-contaminated gingers and other food safety scandals in China during the past years. Firstly, most farmers choose and apply pesticides based on the price of pesticides and their experiences. They used to purchase cheaper pesticides with quick effect but high toxicity instead of eco-friendly products with low toxicity. While spraying pesticides, they usually ignored the introductions on package, undereducated and unaware that they should comply with the introductions.

Secondly, the food safety scandals witness weak supervision on pesticide management and food safety. As mentioned above, the farmers in Weifang had already used aldicarb on gingers with a volume exceeding safe level for a long time, but what is surprising is that the circulation and application of aldicarb have not been inspected by authorities in these years; aldicarb-contaminated gingers were not identified during food safety inspections until they were marketed across China.

Besides, the lack of legal and effective insecticides is another reason for the ginger scandal. Like other minor crops in China, ginger doesn't draw enough attention of agrochemical enterprises for R&D or registration of applicable corresponding insecticides, as the economic return generated from investment in pesticides on minor crops is reckoned to be less than that in major crops. According to the ICAMA, there's only one valid registration of insecticide for ginger–98% methyl bromide GA–in China as of 13 May, 2013. This is far from enough to fulfill the demand of controlling ginger insect pests.

Along with more and more food safety scandals exposed by media these years, Chinese authorities would have to tighten its inspection on both pesticide management and food safety and be more accountable to improve the overall supervision mechanism in the future. Enhancing the ability and efficiency of law enforcement is considered to be primarily imperative. Meanwhile, boosting the development of eco-friendly pesticides and improving farmers' technological knowledge of pesticide application are required in the long run. Furthermore, it is advised that the government should strongly support the pesticide registration for minor crops, such as providing financial subsidies, just like Zhejiang Province did (please refer to Insecticide China News Volume 06 Issue 02 on Page Nine, Water bamboo receives pesticide registration subsidy in Zhejiang Province).

Different from China, some of other countries and regions in the world have washed out aldicarb. In 2010, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Bayer agreed to carry out an entire ban on aldicarb use in the US: all remaining aldicarb uses will end no later than August 2018, as a new risk assessment conducted by the EPA indicated that aldicarb no longer met food safety standards. In 2012, both Brazil and Peru repealed the registrations of aldicarb and started to forbid the product for sale.

Table of Contents of Insecticides China News 1306:

Will EU-wide ban on three neonicotinoids affect China?

High-toxic insecticide aldicarb involved in food safety scandal

Dow to introduce sulfoxaflor to China

Hunan Huinong's tea saponin biopesticide to come out in H2 2013

Doramectin to be applied as insecticide in China

Remarkable growth of pymetrozine registrations continues

Qiheng Agro-chemical to receive investment from listed household chemical company

Redsun Biochemical to shut down compulsively required by government

Jiangsu Changqing to enhance wastewaster treatment and warehouse management

Anhui Futian to set foot in insecticide production

Agrochemical multinationals actively invest in China's pesticide industry

Hunan Haili intends to produce thiodicarb TC (4,000t/a) for export

Bifenthrin export 2012: rises in TC export volume but declines in value

Monthly ex-works prices of main insecticides in China, June 2013

Monthly port prices of main insecticides in China, June 2013

Monthly FOB prices of main insecticides in China, June 2013

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Bio-pesticide to Have a Bright Future in China

Bio-pesticides are certain types of pesticides derived from such natural materials as animals, plants, bacteria, and certain minerals. With people’s rising awareness of environmental protection and food safety, more and more attention have been paid to bio-pesticide, which enjoys advantages of no pollution, no residue, and high efficiency.

There are huge opportunities in China’s bio-pesticide market. The biological resources in China are abundant and the research success rate is high with low research cost. And the international community is calling for environmental protection and the state government has been providing support to China’s  bio-pesticide industry. Additionally, scientific research team of bio-pesticides is growing stronger and stronger with its increasing technology strength in China. What’s more, with the prohibition of highly toxic chemical pesticides, there is broad space that has been left for bio-pesticides. So bio-pesticides will have a bright market outlook in the future.

What kind of challenges and opportunities are there in this industry? How will China’s bio-pesticide market go in the future? What is the supply, demand, consumption, import, export situation? How about the technology development?

In order to provide you the most comprehensive overview of China’s bio-pesticide industry, CCM International has released 2 reports, namely The Survey of Bio-pesticide Industry in China and Market Analysis of Bio-pesticide Industry in China. With these two reports, readers may learn how to penetrate into the ever-increasing China market and how to seize the maximum commercial opportunities.

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In addition, it is investigated by CCM International that abamectin is the largest bio-pesticide with market value of USD213 million in 2010. The company can also offer the 2012 data of abamectin in China, including output, capacity, price, consumption, import, export, producer profile etc. Regarding other kinds of bio-pesticides, CCM International can provide customized service to meet your needs as well. For more products and services about China’s bio-pesticide industry, please contact us at econtact@cnchemicals.com.

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Zhejiang Wynca Finally Wins the Long-run Glyphosate Anti-dumping Case

Zhejiang Wynca Chemical Industry Group Co., Ltd. (Zhejiang Wynca), a leading glyphosate producer in China, announced on 24 July, 2012 that it has finally won the glyphosate anti-dumping case accused by the Council of the European Union (the CEU) since 2000. Thus Zhejiang Wynca becomes the first domestic company to challenge the unfair trade remedy investigation initiated by the CEU and gained two trials' victory, according to CCM International’s latest issue of Crop Protection China News.

The winning of the glyphosate anti-dumping case has greatly cheered up domestic glyphosate production enterprises, especially Zhejiang Wynca. The company now believes that it is worth laying 12 years' effort to cope with the anti-dumping case because the winning has made a good demonstration effect to all of domestic glyphosate producers who may face anti-dumping investigation in the future and it has also helped domestic glyphosate producers set up confidence in exploring market in the EU.

Even so, Zhejiang Wynca has still paid great price on the anti-dumping case because of the long-run lawsuit which has made it almost lose the glyphosate market shares in the EU in the past few years. According to the financial report of Zhejiang Wynca in 2011, although its revenue in overseas market in this period reached USD286.38 million, accounting for nearly 40% of its total revenue, its revenue of glyphosate exported to the EU accounted for a very tiny part of the revenue in overseas market. Now, as the company has won the anti-dumping case, it believed that its market expansion of glyphosate in the EU will be much smoother.

However, the market exploring in the EU may not be as easy as what Zhejiang Wynca believes. It is heard that the CEU is not resigned to give up but still preparing launching trade remedy investigations by itself.

In the past decade, domestic glyphosate has been facing anti-dumping investigations in overseas markets. Owing to the lower cost of the production of domestic glyphosate, the more competitive price of domestic glyphosate compared to those products in some other countries has threatened the local producers. In addition to the EU, Brazil and Australia have ever levied anti-dumping duties on Chinese glyphosate. In a bid to protect domestic glyphosate industry, most countries would set up trade barrier with the name of anti-dumping to charge extra duties on the glyphosate originated from China. It is becoming a usual measure for these countries used to protect local glyphosate industry. Eyeing the intensive competition in overseas markets, this kind of protection measure will be used much more frequently in the future.

Events review

In Feb. 2000, the European Union (the EU) started to levy 48% anti-dumping duty over glyphosate originating from China.

In Feb. 2003, the EU initiated merger investigation towards Chinese glyphosate. Zhejiang Wynca, as the representative of domestic glyphosate industry, responded to the prosecution exclusively.

In Sept. 2004, the EU decided to levy 29.9% of anti-dumping duty over Chinese glyphosate.

In Dec. 2004, Zhejiang Wynca claimed that it appealed against the decision of the EU and decided to prosecute to the decision to the European Court of First Instance.

In May 2009, the EU claimed to suspend levying anti-dumping duty over Chinese glyphosate for a period of nine months.

On 17 June, 2009, the European Court of First Instance made a judgment to cancel levying final anti-dumping duties over the glyphosate from Zhejiang Wynca.

In Aug. 2009, the CEU sued the verdict of the European Court of First Instance to the European High Court of Justice.

On 19 July, 2012, European High Court of Justice made the final judgment that Zhejiang Wynca finally won the lawsuit.

Source: Crop Protection China News 1214

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Content of Crop Protection China News 1214:

Chlorantraniliprole: still common as recessive composition in China

Zhejiang Wynca finally wins the long-run glyphosate anti-dumping case

Glyphosate: short supply and continuously rising price

Import of pesticides keeps increasing in H1 2012

China's export volume of pesticides to ASEAN increases

Jiangsu Changqing initiates pesticide expansion

New investor helps Anhui Huaxing to relive

Lianhe Technology enjoys good performance in H1 2012

Lier Chemical's performance exceeds forecast in H1 2012

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Analysis of tomato seed market in Shandong

2012 Alfalfa Construction Project released to boost alfalfa industry

"Shannong 20" operated by Shandong Shengfeng

IPA1 gene applied in rice breeding

Snow lotus GM technique obtains invention patent

Peanut genome sequencing project to boost peanut breeding

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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

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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

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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. 

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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

… …

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Fipronil Detected Using on Vegetables

Fipronil, a kind of phenylpyrazole insecticide, was traced on the vegetables in a vegetable market in Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, in early June of 2012. As China has banned the sales and application of it since Oct. 2009 except for overseas sales, hygienic application and application as seed treatment on some crops, the news suddenly attracted the public in China who are very alert to such kind of food safety event in recent years, based on CCM International’s latest issue of Crop Protection China News.

 

However, different from other banned pesticide products used on agricultural produces which were exposed by media, many insiders in China took an attitude of being inured towards the illegal use of fipronil, and illegally adding fipronil into insecticide products as recessive composition is an open secret in domestic pesticide market. It is believed that this phenomenon may be caused by the incomplete ban on fipronil in China.

As a highly efficient insecticide, fipronil owns an excellent control effect against a wide range of pests on a variety of crops, especially the pests on rice like rice brown plant hopper. However, owing to its high toxicity to aquatic organisms and bees and long-lasting residue in soil and water, the Chinese government planned to ban the use of fipronil to protect the environment.

 

On 25 Feb., 2009, China's Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Ministry of Environmental Protection jointly released a notice to stop the approval of registration and production applications of formulations containing fipronil and to ban the production of related formulations from 1 April, 2009. The use and sales of pesticide formulations containing fipronil were banned from 1 Oct., 2009.

 

However, eyeing the good capacity of fipronil in managing cockroach and soil insects, the Chinese government didn't cancel the registration of fipronil formulation applied for sanitary pests and seed treatment. Besides, the production of fipronil TC for export and as the raw material of fipronil formulations for export were also not banned.

Therefore, there are still many companies that got registration of fipronil in China. According to the information from China Pesticide Information Network, up to 4 June, 2012, 59 kinds of fipronil products from 25 pesticide enterprises in China got production registration, including TC, SE, seed treatment agent, sanitary insecticide, etc.

 

As the production and use of fipronil as sanitary insecticide and seed treatment agent are allowed, it is difficult to ensure that all the pesticide enterprises, dealers and peasants in China will completely obey the banning law. As there is still no high-efficiency product in China to replace fipronil in managing flea beetle and thrips on vegetables, the complete ban on the use of fipronil in vegetable planting areas, especially in southern part of China, is still a very tough problem. Moreover, the regular insecticides from large pesticide enterprises are now facing an increasing insecticide resistance of vegetable insects, adding fipronil as recessive composition in regular insecticides becomes very popular in these areas.

 

Actually, fipronil is also illegally used in rice planting areas in China. Although some high efficient and low toxicity products have been developed and introduced to China, such as chlorantraniliprole and ethiprole, the higher profit of selling fipronil allows it to be illegally and frequently used in many rice planting areas in China.

Source: Crop Protection China News 1211

http://www.cnchemicals.com/Newsletter/NewsletterDetail_16.html

Content of Crop Protection China News 1211:

Fipronil detected using on vegetables

Turbofus still popular in main sugarcane planting areas

New pesticide solvents for EW formulation developed

Mollic decreases sharply in China

Regulations on Agricultural Insurance to be released

ABA Chemicals to firstly involve in pesticide industry

Anhui Huilong to further expand in South China

Nantong Jiangshan to sell subsidiary

Ex-factory price of abamectin 95% TC increases sharply in early June 2012

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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