Aiming
to establish the key market indicators of China's rice industry, CCM has carried out a
syndicated research project, namely Syndicated Research Project of Hunan Rice
Panel Data & Analysis Model, on rice production in Hunan Province——one of
the largest rice production provinces in China, by conducting panel data
investigations around basic information which include pesticides, seeds,
fertilizers, diseases, pests and weeds, meteorology and agricultural products.
The survey of pesticide's application features has been conducted in Hengyang
City (Hengyang), Yueyang City (Yueyang) and Changde City (Changde) of Hunan Province
and a total of 900 farmers in these three regions were interviewed.
In
those three districts, the demand for pesticides from early rice planting was
similar. The findings are arranged by descending order of input value: insecticides,
herbicides, fungicides and others. As predicted by CCM, in those three
districts, in 2012, the total market value of herbicide products was USD88
million (RMB540 million) for the rice planting-including early season rice,
mid-season rice and late season rice. Among the three districts, Hengyang's
market value of herbicide products was the highest, reaching USD42 million
(RM260 million).
In
terms of herbicide categories used, out of 900 farmers interviewed in those
three districts, 813 mentioned 19 kinds of herbicides. Among them, glyphosate
and paraquat were most frequently mentioned, far ahead of other herbicides,
accounting for about 30% and 15% respectively. It's noteworthy that in Yueyang,
many interviewees, 34.1%, had no awareness of the kind of herbicides they were
using, compared with Hengyang's 3.3% and Changde's 9.1%.
As
for brands, over half of farmers (about 64%) in Hunan Province had no awareness
of them. According to the herbicide brand survey from 510 farmers, 22
herbicides brands and four pesticides companies were mentioned. However, those
mentioned brands are almost all from multinationals: 49.3% was Monsanto's
Roundup (glyphosate formulation), 28.9% was Dow AgroSciences' Daojie
(penoxsulam formualtion) and 5.6% was Dow AgroSciences' Daoxi
(cyhalofop-butyl•penoxsulam formulation).
Retail
stores of agricultural products are the main pesticides purchase channels in
these three districts. Farmers usually buy pesticides by experience, and rarely
accept recommendations from merchants, friends and governments.
Rice
is one of the most important crops in China, and Hunan Province is a large rice
producing province, with a planting area of more than four million hectares. It
ranked first in rice-sowing area and rice output in China in the past few
years. Changde, Yueyang and Hengyang are the three important rice planting
cities in Hunan Province. According to CCM's survey, about 50% farmers plant
rice twice annually (early season rice and late season rice) and about 40%
farmers choose single mid-season rice annually.
Table of Contents of Herbicide
China News 1305:
Survey
founds glyphosate and paraquat were Hunan's major herbicides for early rice in
2012
Lier
Chemical: both revenue and net profit achieved a double-digit growth in Q1 2013
Anhui
Huaxing constructing projects with a total capacity of 417,000t/a
Jiangsu
Dongbao bought a bio-herbicide from Nanjing Agricultural University
Sluggish
acetochlor production in China in 2012
Ex-works
price of nicosulfuron 95% TC soared in late April
Glufosinate-ammonium
arouses interest in China
Paraquat
still in short supply in late April 2013
Diquat
production stays weak in early 2013
Difficult
promotion for biological pesticides
Atrazine
TC export volume surged but formulation fell in 2012
Chinese
herbicides Imp. & Exp. witnessed increases in Q1 2013
15
herbicides TC registered in Australia from Jan. to March 2013
New
registrations of herbicide technical in China in March and April 2013
Herbicides China News, a
monthly publication issued by CCM on 15th, 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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