Import volume increased by 22.42% while export volume declined by 6.46% in Sept.

Although the expansion of domestic titanium feedstock production capacity has reduced the domestic market's reliance on imports, domestic TiO2 producers will still use imported titanium feedstock to mix with domestic titanium feedstock in order to meet quality requirements, according to Titanium China Monthly Report issued by CCM in October.

Both the domestic TiO2 price and titanium feedstock price kept stable during mid-Oct. to mid-Nov. and is likely to remain steady throughout the rest of 2013.

Although the TiO2 shipment volume and the market condition of domestic TiO2 improved during Q3 2013 compared with Q2, the domestic TiO2 price is not likely to rise rapidly in Q4. Also, TiO2 enterprises' full year financial performances are predicted to be disappointing.

The domestic TiO2 price will inevitably edge down following the end of the traditional selling season because the downstream demand remains weak. However, technological breakthroughs in new application fields should bring about new opportunities for growth in China's TiO2 industry.

Henan Billions is entering into the upstream TiO2 industry by constructing a titanium slag production facility. The facility will not only guarantee its raw materials supply, but will also reduce the cyclical fluctuations in its profits.

 In the China Titanium Week 2013, associations from Sichuan and Yunnan Province introduced the condition of local titanium industry, deputation of Vietnam invited Chinese partners to invest Vietnamese titanium industry, delegates considered the sluggish market status would last to the end of 2013.

The recovery of the wind power industry will provide opportunities to upstream industries, including the heavy duty coating industry. This will stimulate the demand for TiO2 as it is applied in heavy duty coating manufacturing.

CPI Yuanda has acquired 100% of its SCR TiO2 supplier Puyuan Chemical. This acquisition helps CPI Yuanda achieve vertical integration and will make the competition in the SCR TiO2 market even more intense.

"Double 11" shopping festival did not bring the expected sales to the coating industry. E-commerce penetration for coating products still faces many problems.

Table of Contents of TiO2 China Monthly Report 1311:

Import volume increased by 22.42% while export volume declined by 6.46% in Sept.

Domestic titanium feedstock supply increased in Sept. as domestic capacity expanded

Domestic TiO2 price kept stable from mid-Oct. to mid-Nov.

Domestic TiO2 market is improving as profitability improved and inventories fell in Q3

Domestic TiO2 price may edge down after the traditional selling season

Henan Billions to raise capital for its titanium slag project

The China Titanium Week 2013: sluggish market status would last to the end of 2013

Wind power industry to bring recovering demand for heavy duty coating

CPI Yuanda acquires upstream SCR TiO2 supplier

China's "Double 11" online shopping festival fails to live up to expectations for the coating industry

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Fuan Pharmaceutical terminates the fluorite mine investment project

1. About three weeks after Fuan Pharmaceutical's fluorite mine investment announcemet, Fuan Pharmaceutical terminated this investment project, mainly because of Mr. Huang Hua and Zuoxuan Mining's incomplete performance of the contract.

2. HNFG achieved a great technical breakthrough of recycling fluorite tailings in March 2013. However, the HNFG's fluorite tailings utilization project has made little progress by now.

3. Recently, the first domestic automatic production line of metallurgical-grade fluorite ball was put into trial production successfully in Guangde County, Anhui Province.

4. The new HCFC usage quotas of 2013 for China were approved and issued by FECO in Oct. 2013.

5. Zibo Haihui has developed a new production technology of cryolite recently, which will help producers cut down almost a half of production cost.

6. Do-Fluoride has released its Q3 report recently, showing its poor business performance. It's estimated that its performance will exhibit a sign of rebound in Q4 2013.

7. After years of efforts, Xiangxiang Fluoride's project of recycling AlF3 atmospheric condensate has broken the technological bottleneck and made achievements in production recently.

8. Recently, Juhua released its Q3 report, indicating that the company's business performance has stopped declining. In addition, Juhua announced that its chemical production equipments have been under annual systemic overhaul since mid-October, which will last for three months.

9. Recently, Arkema Changshu R&D Center has been put into operation in Changshu Arkema site. Moreover, Arkema expressed that a new plant will be built to produce acrylic acid in Asia, and the site of this new plant is likely to be in China.

10. Jiangxi Shilei Fluoro Material is going to construct a new fluorine chemical project with a capacity of 19,000t/a in Huichang County, Jiangxi Province.

11. Jiangsu Jiujiujiu witnessed a poor business performance in the first three quarters of 2013, compared with that in the same period of 2012. However, it is estimated that the company's business performance will rebound gradually in Q4 2013.

Table of Contents of China Fluoride Materials Monthly Report 1311:

1. Fuan Pharmaceutical terminates the fluorite mine investment project

2. HNFG's fluorite tailings utilization project developing slowly

3. A first domestic automatic production line of fluorite ball puts into trial production

4. FECO releases an announcement about HCFC usage quotas of 2013

5. Zibo Haihui develops a new production technology of cryolite

6. Do-Fluoride's business performance to appear a sign of rebound in Q4 2013

7. Xiangxiang Fluoride's recycling project makes a technical breakthrough

8. Juhua releases its Q3 report and enters into overhaul period in mid-Oct. 2013

9. Arkema to increase investment continuously in China

10. Jiangxi Shilei Fluoro Material to construct a new fluorine chemical project

11. Jiangsu Jiujiujiu's business performance to rebound gradually in Q4 2013

12. Import and export analysis of fluoride chemicals in China in Sept. 2013

13. Domestic ex-works prices of most fluoride materials in Oct. 2013

14. Shanghai 3F sees a growth of business performance in Q3 2013

15. Second phase of DuPont China R&D Center puts into operation in Oct. 2013

16. Honeywell to construct its first wholly-owned production base in China

Nantong Jiangshan's operating profit increases by 2,697.38% in Q3 2013

Zhejiang Wynca exhibited paraquat 20% WG and paraquat 40% WG at the 13th AgroChemEx, showing its potential to produce paraquat non-liquid formulations.

Sichuan Hebang has revealed that it plans to construct a 50,000t/a glyphosate production project. In view of Sichuan Hebang's method and cost advantages that it will gain upon the completion of the glyphosate project, Sichuan Hebang is expected to become a top glyphosate manufacturer in China.

Although Monsanto suffered a net loss of USD249 million in Q4 2013 (June 2013-Aug. 2013), it still managed to achieve a net income of USD2,482 million in the 2013 fiscal year (Sept. 2012-Aug. 2013), up by 21% YoY.

ICAMA released the exposure draft of the Advice on the Registration Management of Glyphosate and Its Salt Products on 8 Oct., 2013. From the perspective of positive influence, this registration management advice is expected to be widely accepted by glyphosate companies in China and the clauses in the advice are also expected to be the formal registration clauses of glyphosate.

Because of the thriving market and the rising profitability of glyphosate, Zhejiang Wynca, Nantong Jiangshan and Anhui Huaxing all achieved excellent operating performances and stock performances in the first nine months of 2013.

The total A.I. volume (100% glyphosate acid equivalent) of China's export glyphosate related products in Q3 2013 increased by 46% and 18% compared with Q3 2011 and Q3 2012 respectively. The total export value in Q3 2013 was up by 141% and 60% compared with Q3 2011 and Q3 2012 respectively.

There were nine registrations for glyphosate products approved during Oct. 2013. Five were new registrations, and four were renewed registrations. Thus, China has approved 86 registration certificates of glyphosate products from 1 Jan., 2013 to 31 Oct., 2013, among which 41 were new registrations, and 45 were renewed registrations.

The ex-works prices of glyphosate technical and four glyphosate formulations continued to decline in mid-Nov. 2013.

The Sept. 2013 export volumes, with an exception for PMIDA, suffered MoM declines. The export volumes of glyphosate technical and glyphosate formulations decreased by 16.27% and 2.75% MoM respectively in Sept. 2013. However, the export prices of glyphosate technical, PMIDA and glyphosate formulations all recorded YoY growth in Sept. 2013.

Source: Glyphosate China Monthly Report issued by CCM in November.

Table of Contents of Glyphsoate China Monthly Report 1311:

Nantong Jiangshan's operating profit increases by 2,697.38% in Q3 2013

Zhejiang Wynca to introduce paraquat 20% WG and paraquat 40% WG

Sichuan Hebang expected to become top glyphosate manufacturer

Monsanto's net income increases by 21% in fiscal year 2013

China to strengthen glyphosate registration management

Operating performance comparison among Zhejiang Wynca, Nantong Jiangshan and Anhui Huaxing in Q1-Q3 2013

Review of Chinese glyphosate exports in Q3 2013

Nine glyphosate registrations in Oct. 2013

Glyphosate technical price keeps decreasing in Nov. 2013

Export volume of glyphosate technical decreases by 16.27% in Sept. 2013

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China to import large quantity of GM corn from Brazil

In Sept. 2013, the total import value of corn products in China witnessed a MoM decrease of 41% while the total export value increased sharply by 171% MoM.

              

According to China Customs, in the first nine months of 2013, China's furfural export value was just USD17.0 million, down 47.4% year on year, due to decreases in both the export volume and the export price of the product in this period.

The ex-works price of MSG in China has witnessed a downtrend since Sept. 2013, due to oversupply, weak demand and insufficient cost support.

According to data from CCM, the ex-works price of DDGS in China declined remarkably in Oct. 2013, mainly due to the decreasing demand from downstream industries and the increasing supply of DDGS.

On Oct. 11, 2013, Baolingbao announced that the company had obtained a new patent——a preparation method for the co-production of high purity IMO and alcohol, with a 20-year validity period.For every tonne of IMO produced by this technology, the total production cost will be reduced by 10%.

Recently, Longlive Bio-technology has been committed to developing cellulosic ethanol. On Nov. 13, 2013, the company's project on processing 200,000t/a of straw was approved to be established in Dezhou, Shandong Province, which is mainly to produce cellulosic ethanol with a capacity of 30,000t/a. As early as Oct. 2013, the company decided to build a subsidiary in Denmark to improve its R&D of cellulosic ethanol.

On Oct. 24, 2013, the US Department of Commerce (USDC) announced that it would start anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations on MSG from China and Indonesia, aiming to define whether these products have threatened the MSG industry in the US.

The domestic market price of corn oil remained low during Aug.-Oct., 2013, and is estimated to continue its decline in the near future.    

According to CCM's data, the domestic market price of furfural has enjoyed an uptrend during Aug.-Oct. 2013, mainly due to tight supply, increasing demand and increasing costs.    

The People's Government of Jilin Province decided to start in advance the government's corn purchase for temporary reserve in Songyuan City, Jilin Province from Nov. 8, 2013, which prevented the market price of corn in Songyuan from decreasing.    

China's total import quota for sucrose will remain 1.945 million tonnes in 2014. However, it remains unknown whether the sucrose import volume continues to be large in 2014 as in the current year.

Source: Corn Products China News issued by CCM in November.

Table of Contents of Corn Products China News 1311:

China to import large quantity of GM corn from Brazil

Chinese corn products Imp. & Exp., Sept. 2013

China's furfural export value declines by 47.4% YoY, Jan.-Sept. 2013

Ex-works price of MSG witnesses a downtrend since Sept. 2013

Ex-works price of DDGS declines recently

Baolingbao obtains new patent for IMO production, Oct. 2013

Longlive Bio-technology commits to developing cellulosic ethanol

USDC's anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations on MSG native to China and Indonesia

Market price of corn oil maintains at a low level, Aug.-Oct. 2013

Market price of furfural enjoys uptrend, Aug.-Oct. 2013

Government purchase of corn for temporary reserve starts in Jilin Province in advance

China's import quota for sucrose remains 1.945 million tonnes in 2014

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Phosphorus enterprises have mixed feelings on Off-Season Reserves for 2013/2014

The national call for bids for the Commercial Reserves of Chemical Fertilizers during the Off-Season (Off-Season Reserves) was closed at the end of Oct., and the local call for birds is open. However, enterprises are hesitant to participate, according to CCM’s Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report 1311.

In order to stabilize fertilizer prices between peak season and off-season, China implemented the off-season commercial storage system of fertilizers in 2004. On Sept. 6, 2013, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China (MOF) started the Off-Season Reserves bidding process for 2013/2014, with a pre-qualification of the enterprises. According to the NDRC, the reserves will total 18 million tonnes for 2013/2014 (17.3 million tonnes of Off-Season Reserves and 0.7 million tonnes of phosphate fertilizer special Off-Season Reserves), of which 3.7 to 5.2 million tonnes are estimated to be of phosphate fertilizers. The figure includes the phosphate fertilizer special Off-Season Reserves, which comprise mainly high concentration fertilizers such as DAP. The effect of Off-Season Reserves on DAP was especially significant compared with the effects on other kinds of fertilizers, because the phosphate fertilizer Off-Season Reserves account for about 30% of the annual phosphate fertilizer consumption.

Most of the Off-Season Reserves are allocated to provinces in Northeast and Central China.

Some enterprises are quite willing to take part in the Off-season Reserves, for multiple reasons.

The first advantage are the abundant low-interest loans offered to participants by the Chinese government for six months (from Oct. 2013 to March. 2014), coupled with the low price of phosphate fertilizers in the end of Oct. Considering the current difficulties in getting low-interest loans and some enterprises' estimation of a slight decline in phosphate fertilizer prices, taking part in the Off-Season Reserves will possibly bring high profits.

The second is the support of the increasing prices of downstream agricultural products in recent years. In 2004, China first implemented the Price Floor Policy for Key Grain Varieties (for example, wheat and rice). In 2014, the price floor for wheat will be raised by around 2 cents/kg, to USD0.385/kg. Following the uptrend of past years, the rice price floor will also be raised.

The third is the low inventory of distributors. Given the continuously decreasing prices of phosphate fertilizers in 2013, fertilizer distributors maintained their inventory at low levels. This is an incentive for fertilizer manufacturers to develop Off-Season Reserves, since the demand for the first high season of 2014 (beginning in March) will be higher than the demand for the same period in 2013, when distributors' warehouses were fuller.

There is, however, a number of phosphate fertilizer producers unwilling to develop Off-Season Reserves due to continually decreasing prices. Between improving their relationship with local governments in order to enjoy privileges, and not participating in the Off-season Reserves to avoid large potential losses, some manufacturers, especially small ones, are likely to choose the latter.

Given the absolute surplus of phosphate fertilizers, the fluctuation of prices between off-season and high season will not be substantial. In addition, in an industry already crippled by overcapacity, the Off-Season Reserves end up providing a respite to manufacturers still operating obsolete production lines. This can only be damaging to the fertilizer business as a whole, since it aggravates the surplus and hinders the overall technological development of the industry. Some specialists have suggested replacing the Off-Season Reserves with more effective governmental subsidy mechanisms.

Upon the whole, most of the eligible manufacturers are quite eager to undertake the 2013/2014 Off-Season Reserves.

Table of Contents of Phosphorus Industry China Monthly Report 1311:

MOFCOM launches the 2014 phosphorus ore export quota application procedure

A brief analysis of different production methods of phosphoric acid

Phosphorus enterprises have mixed feelings on Off-Season Reserves for 2013/2014

Shindoo starts production in two plants and aims to go into phosphorus mining

India postpones sunset review of anti-dumping duties on Chinese phosphoric acid imports

Wengfu-Dazhou and Blue Sword Chemical set up JV to produce fine phosphorus chemicals

Traditional phosphorus exporting countries under pressure from MENA competitors

WUT and Hubei Yihua co-develop advanced phosphogypsum-based cementing materials

Brazil stops probing into China's sodium acid pyrophosphate

International trade of phosphate chemicals in Sept. 2013

Market review of prime phosphate chemicals in Oct. 2013

Price monitoring of some phosphate chemicals in Oct. 2013

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Government Strengthens Supervision of Imported Infant Formula

According to Dairy Products China News issued by CCM in November 2013, In order to support the work of central government in promoting the safety and quality of infant formula, on 27 September, China’s Administration for Quality Supervision and Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) issued a notice − Strengthening Supervision of Imported Infant Formula. Requirements for imported infant formula are announced as follows:

• Foreign infant formula processors exporting to China are required to register locally in line with the Administrative Measures for Import and Export Dairy Products’ Inspection, Quarantine and Supervision (please see Dairy Products China News, Vol.6 March issue, p7) and Administrative Regulation of Register for Foreign Food Producers Exporting to China. Unregistered foreign infant formula processors will be prohibited from exporting to China from 1 May, 2014.

• The imported infant formula’s shelf life must be more than 3 months from the date of inspection

• Imported infant formula must be pre-packaged for retail to avoid repacking and redistribution

• From 1 April 2014, imported infant formula packs must have pre-printed Chinese labels. Any such formula without Chinese labels or with labels that fail to meet Chinese laws will be returned or destroyed

These measures can be seen as part of the wider change governmental direction in several aspects:

• Increasing supervision by government and society, with emphasis on dairy enterprises showing self-discipline. The consistent theme of the governmental policies and regulations is to increase supervision and to encourage consumers to participate in this process. Alongside this the government has also established an enterprise credit system, aiming to make food enterprises more transparent and hence more disciplined in their operations − especially the infant formula manufacturers

• Stricter and more detailed standards for infant formula products and manufacturers. Compared with the previous versions, the latest standards for infant formula products and their manufacturers are stricter and more specific, providing more details and practical measures for the government

• Promoting the restructuring of the industry. The government has taken many actions to promote this, the latest report about restructuring the country’s infant formula production being just one of these

• Supporting the domestic industry. The government has taken actions such as strengthening supervision of import/export trade in dairy products, online sales of dairy products, and the anti-monopoly investigation. It is clear that the main beneficiaries of such efforts will be the leading domestic dairy companies

A number of the impacts from the changed governmental direction may be summarized as follows:

• Improved consumer confidence and demand. Undoubtedly, the governmental moves have gone some way to rebuild consumer confidence, thus boosting demand.

• Increasing dairy imports of dairy ingredients. Stronger demand and some of the changes in local milk supply have led to increasing demand for imported dairy ingredients and some finished products, a trend which will last for the foreseeable future.

• Fiercer competition. The increased focus on restructuring the industry – and especially the 128 local infant formula manufacturers – has combined with more and more domestic and multinational players entering the market to make competition still more intense, especially amongst domestic companies.

• More cooperation. The fiercer competition will also facilitate greater cooperation between domestic and multinational companies as they position themselves for a rationalized industry in the future.

• Price. Two main pricing trends are evident, as premium products are priced ever higher whilst mid-market and low-end products remain relatively stable. Overall, though, price levels will increase due to the increasing costs caused by the stricter standards and the impact this has on the raw materials used.

Table of Contents of Dairy Products China News 1310:

Raw Milk Shortage Continues

Overview of Dairy Industry in January-August

Heilongjiang Dairy Industry Development

Market Situation and Trend of Organic Milk

Government Strengthens Supervision of Imported Infant Formula

Government Focuses Further on Infant Formula Supervision

Want Want China Launches New Project in Hunan

Treasure of Plateau’s Infant Formula Development Plan

Meiji Dairies to Suspend China’s Infant Formula Business

Royal Dairy to End Distribution Network Expansion Project outside Guangxi

Yasheng to Target Dairy Farming

CALuckyCow Infant Formula Launches

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China's captan export soars by 54.36% in H1 2013

According to Fungicide China News 1311, in H1 2013, the total export volume of captan technical and formulations in China witnessed an increase of 54.36% year on year to about 742 tonnes, according to the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China (China Customs) and CCM.

In detail, China's export volume of captan technical was 327.25 tonnes in H1 2013, down by 28.78% over the same period last year. However, the soaring export of captan formulations this year offset the decline of captan technical. In H1 2013, China's export volume of captan formulations hit 414.88 tonnes, while China only exported 21.25 tonnes of captan formulations in H1 2012.

The specifications of captan technical exported in H1 2013 included 92% captan technical, 95% captan technical and 97% captan technical. Of the three specifications of captan technical, the export volume of 95% captan technical was much larger than the others, reaching about 187.25 tonnes and accounting for 57.22% of the total export volume of captan technical.

The specifications of captan formulations exported in H1 2013 included 50% captan WP and 80% captan WDG. In the same period last year, China exported no captan WDG. However, captan WDG has become a major specification for captan formulations exported this year.

In 2012, China's export volume of captan technical and formulations were 888 tonnes and 322 tonnes respectively.

The export price of captan technical was USD5.56/kg in H1 2013, higher than that of USD5.29/kg in H1 2012. As the largest exported specification of captan technical, the export price of 95% captan technical hit USD6.95/kg in Feb. 2013, but it witnessed some decrease in the following months.

The export price of captan formulations was USD6.27/kg in H1 2013, much higher than the USD4.71/kg in H1 2012, mainly boosted by the large export volume of 80% captan WDG (its price was higher than 50% captan WP). The export price of 80% captan WDG remained at USD7.5/kg in early 2013, but it declined to USD5.8/kg in June. The export price of 50% captan WP remained in an uptrend during the first five months of this year and hit USD5.2/kg in May, but it declined to USD4.2/kg in June.

China's major exporters of captan technical in H1 2013 were Zhejiang Zhuji United Chemicals Co., Ltd., Guangzhou Henong Trading Co., Ltd., Sinochem Ningbo Limited, and Nanjing Essence Fine-Chemical Co., Ltd. The export volume of captan technical from these companies accounted for about 80% of the total captan technical exported in this period. The top five export destinations of China's captan technical in H1 2013 were the US, New Zealand, Indonesia, Turkey and Venezuela.

China's major exporters of captan formulations in H1 2013 were Guangzhou Henong Trading Co., Ltd., Shandong Weifang Rainbow Chemical Co., Ltd., Sh-Inform Chemical Co., Ltd., and Shanghai AgroChina International Trade Co., Ltd. The export volume of captan formulations from these companies accounted for about 90% of the total captan formulations exported in this period. The top five export destinations of China's captan formulations in H1 2013 included the US, Guatemala, Uruguay, Ukraine and Mexico.

Table of Contents of Fungicide China News 1311:

Shanghai Port prices of main fungicides in China, Nov. 2013

FOB Shanghai prices of main fungicides in China, Nov. 2013

Ex-factory prices of main fungicides in China, Nov. 2013

China's output of fungicide technical up by 5.8% year on year in Sept. 2013

Sipcam China promotes proposal to deal with potato late blight

Fifth and sixth batch of merged agrochemical companies released in China in 2013

Hunan Crop Protection Association founded in Oct. 2013

Subsidy for large grain producers in pilots allocated by MOF

Lier Chemical’s revenue witnesses year-on-year increase of 19.76% in Q3 2013

Lianhe Chemical's revenue increases by 38.9% year on year in Q3 2013

Lanfeng Biochemical suffers loss in Q3 2013

Noposion retains first among China Top 30 Pesticide Formulation Manufacturers, 2013

List of 2013 China Top 100 Pesticide Manufacturers released

Increasingly severe soil pollution in China draws national attention

Seed treatment for wheat strongly promoted in China

Asparagus brings new opportunities to related pesticide development

(+)-Abscisic acid has broad application prospects in China

China's captan export soars by 54.36% in H1 2013

Huifeng Agrochemical’s revenue maintains high-level growth in Q3 2013

Huapont-Nutrichem makes headway in acquisition

Apple canker becomes serious in China

Application for formal registration of two fungicides approved

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New pest control problems emerge in large-scale cultivation

With the progress of the urbanization and the promotion of land circulation, large-scale cultivation is in rapid development, which simultaneously brings some new problems to the control of diseases and pests, according to Insecticides China News issued by CCM in November.

At present, either land circulation or scale cultivation in most places is still in its initial stage, which has two characteristics:

Firstly, different farmers plant the same crop repeatedly in an area. Local government focuses more on policy support on land circulation than on technical support and training for farmers. This pattern of planting (plant the same crop repeatedly) brings more soil-borne pest infestation. With poor technical management and low pest control level, abuse of highly toxic pesticides becomes more severe.

Secondly, the farmland owned by a single farmer is still very small and farmers have weak purchasing power, slowing down the application process of large agricultural machinery. Thus, it is difficult to deal with outbreaks of diseases and pests.

In the promotion and implementation process of large-scale cultivation, the government, agricultural dealers and farmers should pay more attention to ecological risk factors besides the economic benefits, so that the risks can be controlled.

In late June, farmers in Hebei Province suffered a big loss in one production base repeatedly planting radish for many years. The pest caused lots of crooked holes on the surface of radishes, and after 24 hours, they began to rot. The damage rate exceeds 30%. Farmers used more pesticides, but the pest still caused serious yield losses.

According to the Mr. Lei from Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the pest is striped flea beetle, whose larvae feed on the roots of cruciferous crops. It is serious in Southern China such as Guangdong, Fujian, while in Northern China, it is not a major pest. The outbreak of this pest in radish this year is mainly due to the reasons as follows:

For one thing, with continuous years of planting radish repeatedly, a large number of population accumulated in radish residue around the farm. Upon investigation, the longer the radish is cultivated in the same area, the more serious damage of striped flea beetle is. Cleaning up radish residues in field and roadside is not only conducive to the environment protection but also the basic measure for controlling the pest. However, it is not easy to practice for one or two farmers.

For another, the rainy weather in late spring of this year was fertile to the propagation of striped flea beetle. Besides, during the growth of radish, farmers did not know how to control it at all and local farmers usually used little pesticides, there was no timely control for striped flea beetle, resulting in damage to larger area.

In Hebei Province, sweet potato planting area is increasing due to the land transfer contract, while the Pleonomus canaliculatus damage is becoming serious with the expansion and continuation of sweet potato planting area.

In order to maximally guarantee the normal grow and business income of sweet potato, farmers widely used highly toxic pesticides such as terbufos, aldicarb and phorate. Meanwhile, some pesticide dealers does not recommend other pesticides, they try various ways to sell pesticides which farmers want to buy.

The risk of large-scale cultivation is much greater in some cases, when farmers face pest damage; they purchase pesticides that they think are good enough. As pesticide dealers, it is necessary to help farmers solve technical problems.

In August 2012, armyworm in the corn planting area of Northeast China broke out, leading to tremendous influence on the growth of corn. Owing to the large planting area with the corn height of more than 1.5m, how to effectively spray pesticides has become an urgent problem.

Finally, spraying using aircraft and elevated sprayer quickly took control of the armyworm infestation. However, lack of access to improved spraying equipment in some field led to huge losses.

Armyworm are migratory pests, timely control should be assured as soon as strong outbreak, large-scale cultivation of corn needs quick and timely availability of pesticides for the control. The outbreak and control of armyworm in Northeast China indicated that spraying equipment and pests monitoring should match large-scale cultivation.

Development of market economy is driven by market demand, large-scale cultivation in China will inevitably push its agriculture development. Problems emerge during this process are, at the same time, the market demand opportunities. Agricultural manufacturers and distributors at all levels should closely pay attention to such opportunities to grow with the market and strengthen themselves.

This article is written by Zhao Zhanzhou, a senior agronomist from Beijing Zhongbao Lvnong High-tech Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Institute of Plant Protection (IPP) Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS).

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