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Published on the 15^th & 31^th every month, Crop Protection China News is a monthly publication released by CCM. It offers timely update and close follow up of China’s various kind of Crop market dynamics, analyze the market data and trends. Major columns include companies' current dynamics and market situation, a close watch of government policies and regional dynamics.

Following are headline news of the latest issue of Crop Protection China News:

New national standard of maximum residue limits for pesticides in food released

New national food safety standard of Maximum Residue Limits for Pesticides in Food is jointly released by Ministry of Agriculture of China and Ministry of Health of China on 6 Dec., 2012 and is planned to be carried out on 1 March, 2013.

No. 1 central document of 2013 again to focus on agricultural issues

No. 1 central document of 2013 is predicted to continue focusing on agricultural issues.

First paraquat SG gains registration in China

Shandong Luba gains provisional registration of 50% paraquat SG on 8 Nov., 2012 and it becomes the first company to register another type of paraquat formulation except paraquat AS in China.

Microcapsule formulations eye bright market prospect in China

Microcapsule pesticide formulations are expected to have a bright market prospect in China in the near future with their attractive advantages and characteristics.

Domestic seed treatment agent industry ready for expanding

The registration of seed treatment agent in China is predicted to double in the next two to three years, exceeding 700.

Anti-dumping investigation shocks pyridine market seriously

Recently, the anti-dumping investigation of pyridine initiated by Chinese government has shocked domestic pyridine market seriously.

Huapont to change name into Huapont-Nutrichem

As the pesticide business in Nutrichem now plays a more and more important role in its main business, Huapont announces to change its name into Huapont-Nutrichem on 30 Nov., 2012.

Jiangsu Yangnong to expand production by setting up pesticide subsidiary

Jiangsu Yangnong announces on 9 Dec., 2012 that it plans to set up a pesticide production subsidiary with total investment of USD28.52 million.

Chinese pesticide Imp. & Exp. analysis in Jan.–Oct. 2012

According to the GAC, Chinese import and export volume and value of pesticides witness increases in Jan.–Oct. 2012 compared with the same period of 2011.

Australia restarts anti-dumping investigation on Chinese glyphosate formulations

Australia restarts anti-dumping investigation on Chinese glyphosate formulations

China cotton planting area in 2012 declines

China cotton planting area in 2012 declines

China grain output in 2012 ups 3.2%

China grain output in 2012 ups 3.2%

First domestic pesticide enterprise gained registration of methoxyfenozide TC

First domestic pesticide enterprise gained registration of methoxyfenozide TC 

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Bayer Sets up Seed Treatment Application Center in China

Bayer CropScience (China) sets up its first Seed Treatment Application Center in China on 10 Nov., 2011 and it is the seventh one of Bayer CropScience in the world, based on CCM’s latest issue of Crop Protection China News.

The application center is located in Haidian District, Beijing City, with the most advanced seed processing equipment and detection measures. It is considered to be a bond between the R&D of new seed processing products, marketing and seed customers, including the services of customer support & training, tailored technical solutions, etc.

As seed treatment agent is one of the most important products in agricultural production, large international pesticide enterprises, such as Syngenta, Bayer and Dow AgroSciences, have got involved in the field since many years ago. The sales revenue of seed treatment in Bayer CropScience in 2010 reached about USD450.19 million, accounting for 8.9% of its total revenue, about USD5,048.95 million.

Eyeing the growing market of seed treatment agent in China, international crop protection giants have continuously entered China's market with high quality products, such as Bayer CropScience's Gaucho (70% imidacloprid), Sygenta's Dividend (difenoconazole) and Celest (fludioxonil).

Some self-developed products by Chinese enterprises have also shown good performance in domestic pesticide market in recent years, such as Yuezhong (60% imidacloprid) from Shenzhen Noposion Agrochemical Co., Ltd. and Fudie (70% imidacloprid) from Hebei Veyong Bio-Chemical Co., Ltd.

So far, there are more than 400 seed treatment agent players in China. The annual increment speed of the total sales volume has reached 10% in recent years, showing the great prospect of seed treatment agent in China.

According to CCM International, the total consumption volume of seed treatment agent in China reached 41,000 tonnes in 2009, valuing USD150 million.

Some insiders in China even predict that seed treatment agent, after herbicide, will account for large share of domestic pesticide market in the next three to five years.

However, problems still lie ahead of domestic seed treatment agent industry, even though it has witnessed rapid development in recent years, such as weak R&D capability, weak market surveillance, etc.

The R&D capability of seed treatment in China is largely lagged behind that of some developed countries due to the late start of domestic research. Although some large pesticide players have realized the prospect of seed treatment agent and put investment R&D in recent years, most of their products' quality don't come close to those of foreign products. As more and more sub-quality products appear in domestic market (there are some good quality products but without good usage instructions, while foreign enterprises do a good job in this terms), peasants prefer foreign seed treatment agent to domestic one.

Domestic market of seed treatment agent also faces the problem of lacking efficient market surveillance, which has led to many illegal productions and sales of seed treatment agent. Highly toxic seed treatment agents which can bring large profit still take up large market share in China.

However, compared with other branches of pesticide industry in China, the situation seems not so serious.

The registration fee of a compound seed treatment agent reaches USD78,740.16 (RMB500,000), which blocks the entering of small-sized pesticide players.

Source: Crop Protection China News 1122

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Content of Crop Protection China News 1122:

Bayer sets up Seed Treatment Application Center in China

Jiangsu Huifeng to change IPO projects

Accident occurs again in Nantong Jiangshan

New tax policy barely benefits small agricultural enterprises

China may largely support the development of agricultural technology

Rhizobium inoculant faces market promotion problems in China

Sumitomo expands the capacity of urea-formaldehyde fertilizer

Plant construction upsurge of chloride pesticide intermediate

10 new AIs registered in Q3 2011

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