According
to Insecticides China
News 1309 issued by CCM, Recently, Syngenta is busy with the
promotion of its thiamethoxam–based seed treatment
product (Cruiser), by holding two Cruiser Vigor Forum in Guangdong and
Shandong. The product's excellent performance and Syngenta's professional
promotion work are very impressive. However, Syngenta will face intense
competition from Chinese companies in its thiamethoxam business.
Besides
thiamethoxam technical, many Chinese pesticide companies are actively
registering thiamethoxam formulation products. By 16 July 2013, 48 thiamethoxam
registrations had been approved in China, including 34 of formulations. Among
the formulations registrations, 13 are from domestic companies.
The
thiamethoxam formulations' registration at present is only the tip of the
iceberg. It will soar in the coming one to two years. According to data from
the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture
(ICAMA), pesticide companies had filed 448 registration applications for
thiamethoxam formulations in China, by 16 July 2013.
Before
2010, registration application of thiamethoxam formulations in China was very
small, usually less than ten each year. However, the application jumped to 72
in 2010 and 74 in 2011. In 2012, the application times even hit 151, up 104%
year on year. This trend continued in 2013. By 16 July 2013, the application
times had hit 110.
It
is very easy to understand the boom of registration application since 2010.
Syngenta’s patent for thiamethoxam in China expires in 2013 and it takes two to
three years for a company to register a pesticide formulation in China. As a
result, many domestic companies started to file their registration applications
in 2010, so that they may launch their thiamethoxam formulation products in
2013 or 2014.
The
application for registrations of thiamethoxam formulations include 34 kinds of
products. Thiamethoxam–single formulation is the most popular one, with the
application times of 303, accounting for 67.63% of the total. Besides, the
registration applications of some mixed formulations, such as
thiamethoxam+pymetrozine, thiamethoxam+abamectin and
thiamethoxam+lambda-cyhalothrin are also very popular. For other mixed
formulations, their application times are less than ten.
Most
registration applications of the thiamethoxam formulations are targeted on many
crops, but most of them are focusing on rice for the control of plant hopper.
These
registration applications of thiamethoxam formulations come from 209 companies.
Almost all the big domestic pesticide formulations companies have filed
registration application of thiamethoxam formulations. Five companies'
registration application times exceed ten and the total registration
application times of these companies hit 77, accounting for 17.19% of the
total.
Shaanxi
Meibang Group is the most active company, with the registration application
times of 21. The company tries to register thiamethoxam targeted on many kinds
of crops, such as rice, wheat, corn, cotton, tea, vegetable and horticultural
crops.
With
so many registration applications, it is believed that thiamethoxam
formulations products will witness a blowout in domestic market in the coming
two to three years. The potential for market disruptions of thiamethoxam
formulations in domestic market is very high.
However,
even for those companies that have filed registration applications, there are
two opposite opinions.
"We
filed the registration application for thiamethoxam formulations in 2012, but
we are not optimistic about the future of this product. The registration is
just for the expansion of our product portfolio, and to meet more customers'
needs," said an insider from Shanghai Lianbao Cropsciences Co., Ltd
(Shanghai Lianbao).
In
fact, like Shanghai Lianbao, many companies are not optimistic about the future
of these products, but they still try to register it. Many companies are just
following others blindly. They register products that others are
registering.
But
some companies' expectation for this product is very high. In their minds, the
sales revenue of thiamethoxam is very huge and the application field is still
expanding, so it is not hard to get a slice of cake. Besides, they believe that
the Chinese government will not ban thiamethoxam easily like EU.
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