China's fungicides Imp. & Exp. analysis in H1 2013

China's import of fungicides witnessed a growth in the first half of 2013–import volume rising on one hand and import value climbing on the other. According to the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China (China Customs), China's import volume of fungicides reached about 15,184 tonnes from Jan. to June 2013, up by 12.37% over the same period of last year. In detail, the import volume of retail packing fungicides hit around 760 tonnes in H1 2013, up by 4.11% over H1 2012. In addition, the non-retail packing variety climbed to about 14,424 tonnes in the meantime, up by 12.84% year on year.  

As for the import value of fungicide products, it amounted to USD171.13 million in H1 2013, up by 15.71% compared with that in H1 2012, owing to the growth in the total import volume of fungicides and the increasing average import price. It can be seen from the above data that the average price of imported fungicides in H1 2013 rose by 2.98% year on year to about USD11,270/t.

By export volume of fungicides to China, Germany still maintained the No. 1 place in H1 2013. Specifically, China imported about 3,243 tonnes of fungicide products from Germany, followed by India, France, Columbia, Japan, etc. It's worth noting that Thailand rose from No. 14 in H1 2012 to No. 8 in H1 2013 by export volume of fungicides to China. Moreover, the import volume of fungicides from the top 10 origins accounted for 80.62% of China's total in H1 2013.

In H1 2013, China's export business of fungicides also enjoyed a rise in export volume, value and price to varying degrees. Statistics from China Customs show that China exported about 37,034 tonnes of fungicides to overseas markets.

The news was sourced from CCM’s August issue, Fungicides China News 1308.

Table Contents of Fungicides China News 1308:

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

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

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

Lianhe Technology achieves good performance in H1 2013

Domestic export volume of flutriafol rises in 2012

Methiadinil: new fungicide with independent intellectual property rights obtains registration in China

China's fungicides Imp. & Exp. analysis in H1 2013

Two thifluzamide TC registrations approved in China in July 2013

Sinochem Agro to expand pesticide business overseas through its proprietary products

Output of pesticides in China tops 1.5 million tonnes in H1 2013

Middle-late rice diseases to enter high-incidence season in China

Diseases to strike 2 million ha. of fields in the mid-later growth stage of cotton

Stricken extent of corn diseases to be less than last year

Spring potato late blight to seriously strike northern China

PHMG's preservative obtains its national invention patent

Bayer and Xinjiang Corps in cooperation to promote modern agricultural technology

Huifeng Agrochemical's net profit up 54.52% year on year in H1 2013

Lier Chemical enjoys double-digit rise in revenue and net profit in H1 2013

First zoxamide formulation approved in China

Lanfeng Biochemical to establish an import and export company

Output of domestic mancozeb technical increases in May 2013

Monsanto plans to develop a broad-spectrum fungicide in cooperation with Nimbus

Third batch of merged agrochemical companies released in China in 2013

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Fungicide application in early rice planting in three regions of Hunan in 2012

In terms of the results of a pesticide survey lately conducted by CCM, Jingangmycin, isoprothiolane and propiconazole•difenoconazole 30% EC (Brand name: Armure) were the mainstream rice fungicides in the early rice planting of Hengyang, Yueyang and Changde of Hunan Province in 2012.

CCM has recently completed a survey of pesticide application for 2012 early rice planting in Hengyang City (Hengyang), Yueyang City (Yueyang) and Changde City (Changde) of Hunan Province. In the survey, a total of 900 farmers in these three regions were interviewed. The survey covered 69 pesticides, including 34 insecticides, 19 herbicides, 14 fungicides, 1 rodenticide and 1 molluscicide. In this issue, Fungicides China News 1305, CCM focuses on the application of fungicides in these three key rice planting regions of Hunan.

According to the survey, the market value of fungicide products was the highest in the early rice planting of Hengyang in 2012 among the three regions, amounting to about USD22.74 million (RMB140 million), accounting for 18.7% of the total (pesticides' market value in the region). Though the market value of fungicide products was the lowest in the early rice planting of Yueyang, around USD11.37 million (RMB70 million), the region's application proportion of fungicides in the total pesticides ranked No. 2, reaching 15.9%. As for Changde, the application proportion of its fungicides in early rice planting was only 15.4%, lower than those of the other two regions.

In general, the use volume of jingangmycin, one of the conventional rice fungicides, was the largest in the early rice planting of Hengyang, Yueyang and Changde of Hunan in 2012, thanks to its sound performance-to-price ratio and widespread application. It is followed by isoprothiolane, a product mainly used to control rice blast, one of the most serious rice diseases, and propiconazole•difenoconazole 30% EC (Brand name: Armure) produced by Syngenta, a world-leading crop protection company. In addition, tricyclazole, mancozeb, iprobenfos, carbendazim, kasugamycin, etc., have a certain market share in the early rice planting of the three major rice production regions of Hunan last year.

Specifically, the application of isoprothiolane was the highest in the early rice planting of Yueyang in 2012, accounting for 30.0% of the total (rice fungicides). It is particularly worth noting that in the early rice planting of Changde, jingangmycin's application proportion reached as high as 53.2% last year, far above the levels in Hengyang and Yueyang. And Armure, the most popular brand of rice fungicides, received much favorable comments from the local rice growers in Hunan, owing to its excellent prevention and control efficacy on rice diseases, especially rice sheath blight; the application proportions of this fungicide in the early rice planting of Hengyang, Yueyang and Changde in 2012 were 16.5%, 20.6% and 9.2% respectively.

As a matter of fact, most rice growers in Hengyang, Yueyang and Changde have almost no brand awareness in choosing a pesticide. Thus, only a few rice fungicide brands were mentioned in this survey, and the top three ones in terms of mentioned times in the survey were Armure, Nativo (trifloxystrobin•tebuconazole 75% WDG) and Horizon (tebuconazole 430g/L SC). The latter two belong to Bayer, one of the well-known multinational companies. Worse still, many farmers in Hengyang, Yueyang and Changde know little about preventing and controlling rice diseases by good rice fungicide brands from domestic agrochemical companies.

Hunan is one of the major rice producing provinces in China, with a large market for rice fungicides. To capture more market shares, not only multinational companies but also domestic agrochemical ones need to continuously strengthen the training of fungicide-using level for the local farmers and help them build a good brand awareness.

Survey founds glyphosate and paraquat were Hunan's major herbicides for early rice in 2012

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.

The news above was sourced from CCM’s latest issue, Herbicide China News 1305.

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 15^th, 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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Dow AgroSciences’ overview for South America

The company has reported worldwide outstanding results for 2012, with an increase of 13% (vs 2011) for total sales (compared to 11% average for agricultural (AG) market) that includes seed sales with 27% growth (vs 14% average of AG market) plus crop protection sales showing 10% growth (vs 9% average of AG market). The EBITDA increase was 7%, according to CCM’s latest monthly report, Crop Protection South America Monthly Report issued in March.

A key player for this growth certainly was South America (the second largest worldwide market of sales, behind North America). In the tropical and subtropical climate of this region are grown soybeans, corn, sugarcane, wheat, fruits, vegetables, sunflower oil seed and rice and the company offers a variety of crops protection and seeds to achieve the maximum yields and health protection, as well as for livestock through pasture’s products.

A wide selection of herbicides, insecticides and fungicides to meet customers' needs, as well as trait technologies such as HERCULEX® and POWERCORE™ in corn and WideStrike™ Insect Protection technology in cotton, is available.

The company is deploying the South American market strategy aimed to the following countries and main related products, as follows:

Argentina: 

- Seeds (Hybrids and GMO) for corn, sunflower and sorghum.

- Herbicides for chemical fallow, 2-4 D products and glyphosate products (e.g Panzer Gold).

- Fungicides (e.g Planet X-tra for soybean diseases).

- Insecticides / Omega 9 oils / Pastures (weed’s control).

Brazil:

        - Herbicides, insecticides and pastures.

        - Sentricon: products for controlling termites eliminating the core of the colonies.

        - Lorsban chlorpyrifos based insecticide.

Bolivia and Paraguay: Products for pasture’s weed control.

Colombia: Herbicides, insecticides and pastures.

Chile: Natural insecticides for apple, pear and walnut trees.

Table Contents of Crop Protection South America Monthly Report 1303:

Argentina to build a new R&D biotechnology center

Bayer CropScience looking for expanding business in South America

Dow AgroSciences’ overview for South America

Syngenta – Financial results for Latin America

Argentina: Focusing on barley quality issues

Brasil crop overview for 2012/13 season

Brazil is sustaining the biofuel strategy

Paraguay: Transgenic cotton’s high yields require performing three harvests

Bolivia soybean overview

Bolivia crop export overview

Paraguay crops overview

Brazil: Late corn season (milho safrinha) to be tested at Mato Grosso do Sul state

Brazil: Cargo ships port’s logistic jam – status on March 8, 2013

Brazil: Black bean’s price increases 40% in a year

Argentina: Imported glyphosate price is steady after rising 70% last year

Argentina: Lowest chickpea’s export prices since late 2010

Brazilian Superior Court of Justice rejected Monsanto’s appeal for payment of royalties

Argentine province’s labor court halts Monsanto seed’s investment

Paraguayan Environmental Protection Agency boosts biogas generation project

Peruvian women awarded as “protective guardians from Andean quinoa and other grains”

Colombian Agriculture Society calls for dialogue to negotiate

Colombia: Boosting the new agriculture & livestock technical assistance national policy

Chile approved new pesticide

Brazil with a controversial launching for a soybean fungicide

Argentine researchers to study natural plant showing high resistance to drought

Argentina: GMO Product’s approval & launchings

Nidera Argentina – New GMO crops

Argentina weeds resistance

Paraguay: FAO urges to coordinate actions against HLB citric’s plague

Bolivia celebrated the 18th edition from Exposoya exhibition

Uruguay: Opening of national Expoactiva 2013

Brazil projected production gross value

Paraguay – New elected president for CAPPRO

Bolivia late soybean season

Argentina’s Expoagro 2013 – Early initiatives post-exhibition

Crop Protection South America Monthly Report, a monthly publication issued by CCM on 31^st, offers timely update and close follow-up of South America's crop protection industry’s dynamics and the crops’ evolution and trends. This monthly report also features in-depth analysis on market development through abundant facts and figures. 

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Changqing Agrochemical's main strategy in future

Changqing Agrochemical has built a 500t/a fenoxanil technical production line with the total investment of about USD4.95 million, and it is expected to start operation in the first half year of 2012. In line with the sales plan of Changqing Agrochemical, most of its fenoxanil technical is used to process fenoxanil 20% SC, which is mainly for domestic market, and the rest is exported to overseas market.

In addition, Changqing Agrochemical has also been committed to developing triazole fungicides and strobilurin fungicides, such as epoxiconazole, difenoconazole and trifloxystrobin, three popular fungicides in domestic and overseas market. It is estimated that the sales volume of Changqing Agrochemical's fungicides will rise to some extent in 2012 with the launch of new products to the market. Hopefully, with bright market prospect, these fungicides will become the company's new profit growth point in the near future.

China's demand for bio-fungicides for paint use will increase at CAGR of 9% during 2009-2013, with its current consumption accounting for 35% of Asia's total, reaching 3,175 tonnes in 2008, according to Kusumgar, Nerlfi & Growney, a consulting firm.

Pesticide in this report refers to a substance or a mixture of substances used to kill pests, diseases and unwanted plants, including various chemical substances used in agricultural industry, with the forms of technical or formulation. In terms of end-use segment, the major pesticide products mainly include: herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and others, such as rodenticides, anti-sprouting products, plant growth regulators and similar products.

Fungicides China News is a monthly publication released by CCM. It offers timely update and close follow up of China’s various kind of fungicides market dynamics, analyze the market data and trends. Major columns include new legislations, company strategy, investment opportunities, advanced technology and quality fungicides.

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