Conference Outline

Section 1: Commercial Opportunities on Particular Areas

Topic 1: Bright Prospect for Strobilurin Fungicides in China

-Development of off-patent strobilurin fungicides in China

-China's R&D of strobilurin fungicides

-China's demand for strobilurin fungicides

-Prospect for strobilurin fungicides in the future

Topic 2: Market Situation and Future Trend of Bio-pesticides in China

-Current market situation of bio-pesticide

-Bio-pesticide R&D in China

-Drivers for bio-pesticide’s fast development

-Prospect of bio-pesticide development

Topic 3: Attractiveness of Foliar Fertilizer Market in China

-Balance fertilization: the mechanism and benefits of folia fertilizers;

-Similarities and differences between aggressing and foliar fertilizers on field performance;

-Marketing methodsof marketing foliarfertilizers in China

Topic 4: 21^st Century of Fluorine-containing Pesticides

-Features of Fluorine Chemistry

-Introduction of Fluorine-containing Pesticides and Their Intermediates

-Introduction of SINOFLUORO Company and Its Technology

Topic 5: Market Situation and Opportunity of Non-crop Products in China

-Global perspective of global non-crop markets

-Segments and market size of non-crop markets in China

-Experience in marketing of non-crop products in China

Topic 6: Status of Indian Agrochemical Industry and Development Trends
-China – India cooperation and collaboration
-Current Indian Agrochemical Market, from the aspects of distribution, changing product portfolio, use, consumption, OECD GLP status, contract manufacturing, financial performance, etc.
-Status and SWOT analysis of Indian agrochemical companies
-R&D environment and activities in India
-Environment protection in Indian agrochemical companies
-Developing effective competitive strategies for Indian agrochemical companies
-Pesticide registrations in India
-Case studies of a few Indian agrochemical companies
-Future outlook of agrochemical industry in India

Section 2: Latest Dynamic and Challenges

Topic 7: Identify the Latest EC Formulations Policy

-Market situation of EC formulations in China

-New EC formulations policy from MIIT and MOA

-How it is going to work on the development of EC formulations

-R&D of substitutes and development of eco-friendly solvents for EC formulations

Topic 8: China's Pesticide Export and Import 2011

-Overview of pesticide export and import situation in 2011

-New feature of China’s pesticide import and export

-Projection of China's pesticide export and import in 2012

Topic 9: Advance of Waste Treatment Technology for Organophosphorus Pesticides

-Market situation of organophosphorus pesticides in China

-Advance of waste treatment technology for organophosphorus pesticides

-Problems and possible solutions 

Topic 10: Current Situation and Governmental Solution of Agricultural Environment in China

-Current Situation of Agricultural Environment in China

-Regulations and Standards of Agricultural Environment in China

-Protective Solution and Measure of Agricultural Environment

Topic 11: China's Food Security and Its Future Trend of Agriculture

-Current status and challenges of food security in China
-Potential of increasing grain production in China
-Over-reliance on chemical fertilizers and pesticides unsustainable
-Will genetically modified products lead the future of China’s agriculture industry?
-Future of ecological agriculture

Topic 12: What is Relationship Marketing? How do Chinese Agriculture Input Retailers Build Guanxi with Farmers?

-What are the different categories of relationship between agricultural input retailers and farmers?

-What are the solutions to the present and future challenges from agricultural input retailer's perspectives?

-How to conduct Relationship Marketing at a short or long term solution to meet the major challenges for retailing businesses in the Chinese agricultural input market?

Topic 13: Understand the Latest Policy for China's Seed Industry

-The latest change for "Production and management Licensing Regulations for seed industry"

-Its impact on domestic seed industry

-How should oversea seed company face the new policy? (Ownership structure especially)

Topic 14: How to Develop Seed Coatings in China

-Current situation of seed coating in China

-Key companies for this market

-Government’s policy and future trend for seed coating

-Strategy for development seed coatings in China

 Section 3: Hotspots in Global Crop Protection Industry   

Topic 15: BioPesticide Industry- Global Challenges and Opportunities

-Current Situation of Global Biopesticide

-Opportunities

-Challenges

Topic 16: Driving Forces that are Changing Crop Protection Markets

Over the past decade the global crop protection market has been going through dramatic transformation brought about by the impact of biotechnology alternatives, changes in regulatory requirements, pest resistances, pest shifts, and other key drivers.  Dramatic change will continue throughout the foreseeable future and our industry will need to learn to anticipate and adapt.  There are several key driving forces that have and will continue to force change throughout all levels of the food and feed production chain.  These driving forces can also provide direction as to the level of innovation and critical attributes that will be required to meet customer demands in the future.  This talk will review some of the key driving forces and how they will shape future customer needs which our industry will need to and can successfully address.

Speakers portfolio

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  Peter Nightingale,Director,Development Chemicals Ltd.(Workshop Leader)

  Peter Nightingale is a process development chemist with over thirty years experience in development, scale up and technology transfer in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical and fine chemical sectors. He is the founder of UK based Synprotec Ltd. Synprotec was a company of process development and optimization for both patented and generic API’s. The Process technology strengths include organometallic chemistry, catalytic hydrogenation, organo fluorine and chlorine chemistry and the development of continuous processing.\u000d\u000a\u000d\u000aDr. Nightingale has a B.Sc in chemistry (First Class) and a Ph.D from the University of Manchester. Post graduate and post doctoral work was in the area of organofluorine chemistry with Prof. R.N. Haszeldine’s group.\u000d\u000a

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  Robert Bryant,Director,Agranova(Workshop Leader)

  Dr. Robert John Bryant, Director, Agranova\u000d\u000aA fine chemical consultant with solid academic, industrial and consulting achievements, who specialises in business development and marketing studies and techno-economic assessment projects for the global fine chemical industry. Author and publisher of specialist publications on the international crop protection and pharmaceutical fine chemical industries. \u000d\u000a\u000d\u000a

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  Roman离职 Macaya,Vice-President,Agroquimica Industrial Rimac, S.A.(Chairman)

  Roman Macaya is a scientist and businessman who has served as President of Costa Rica\u0027s National Chamber of Generic Products, and as President of ALINA, the Latin American Association of National Agrochemical Industries. Dr. Macaya currently serves as Vice-President of AgroCare, the global Association of manufacturers of generic crop protection products based in Brussels, Belgium. All these organizations create awareness of the social and economic benefits generated by the competition of generic crop protection products, and are reference organizations on technical, regulatory and legal matters. \u000d\u000a\u000d\u000aDr. Macaya holds an MBA in Health Care Management from Wharton Business School (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), a doctorate in Biochemistry from UCLA (Los Angeles, California) and a B.A. in Chemistry from Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vermont).

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  Cong Zhang,Professor,College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University(Speaker)

  Graduated from Peking University in 1969, majoring in technical physics, Mr. Zhang is the renowned expert of agricultural environment in China. He has published more than 80 essays and over 10 books regarding environment protection, especially agricultural environment protection. He is now the hired expert of China Environmental Impact Assessment Center, and has insightful idea about agricultural environment protection, environmental impact assessment, environmental regulations and policies, ecological agriculture and environmental analysis, etc.

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  Dayuan Xue,Professor,College of Life and Environmental Science, The Central Universtity For Nationalities(Speaker)

  Dr. Dayuan Xue, graduated from Nanjing Agricultural University in 1982 (for Bachelor) and in 1987 (for M.Sc.) and from Nanjing University in 1997 (for PhD). He conducted a post-doctoral program during 1998-2000, in University of Queensland, Australia. As a leading scientist, during the past 30 years, he has coordinated and conducted a series of national and international projects for biodiversity conservation, biosafety of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) and access and benefit-sharing (ABS) of genetic resources and related traditional knowledge in China. Assigned by the Chinese government, he has been involving in negotiation and implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) and Nagoya Protocol on ABS issue since 1988.\u000d\u000a

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  Di Cheng,Senior Engineer,Shenyang Research Institute of Chemical Industry(Speaker)

  Professor Cheng has been engaged in technology development and project application of highly toxic wastewater treatment in pesticide, dyestuff and organic pigment industry. She has been in charge of developing new technologies of several contaminant treatments in recent years, which have been adopted by hundreds of pesticide, dyestuff and organic pigment enterprises around valleys of Huaihe River, Yangtze River, Yellow river, Taihu Lake and Chaohu Lake, etc. \u000d\u000a\u000d\u000aBecause of her hard work, Professor Cheng has earned remarkable achievements. For example, with the research of “New Technology and Project Application of Wastewater in Pesticide Industry”, she was awarded the first prize winner by China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association in 2010.

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  Dr. B. Saha,Senior Vice President,NACL Industries Limited (Nagarjuna Agrichem Limited)(Speaker)

  Dr.B.Saha, Senior Vice President of Nagarjuna Agrichem Limited, has rich work experiences in India agrochemical industry. He has served in Pfizer, Monsanto, Lalbhai Group and Gharda Chemicals Limited after he finished his post-doctoral research in Canada and USA. He was also a Principal Investigator and member of the India government sponsored \u0022New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership Initiative Project\u0022. \u000d\u000a\u000d\u000aDr. B. Saha’s research papers have been published in International Journals and he’s also a reputed speaker in various international seminars and conferences.

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  Dr. Venkatesh Devanur,Managing Director,SOM Phytopharma (India) Limited,SOM Phytopharma (India) Limited(Speaker)

  Born in 1957, after B Sc (Agricultural Sciences) from University of Agricultural Sciences and MBA from Punjab Agricultural University, Ph D from Intercultural Open University. Since 1993 he is Managing Director of SOM Phytopharma (India) Limited. In 2003, he founded Agri Life, where he started manufacturing BioPesticides, BioFertilizers and Bio-Agri Inputs. Agri Life headed by Devanur is a premier BioPesticide company and exporting BioPesticides and BioFertilizers to many countries. As he has devoted his career to BioPesticides and BioFertilizers industry, he is Secretary of BIPA (Bio-Agri Inputs Producers Association of India for last 6 years. Because of his efforts and foresight BIPA is now one of the leading Associations of BioPesticide Industry.

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  Fuliang Chen,Professor,Plant Protection Institute of CAAS(Speaker)

  Dr. Fuliang Chen, Committee member of Pesticide Committee to China Society of Plant Protection. He has been engaging in pesticide formulation research in Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences since 1995. Mr. Chen mainly focuses on research of pesticide formulation, pesticide bioassay and inert ingredient. He participated in many research projects and won many awards. Being responsible for the new varieties development of pesticide formulations, he has developed tens of pesticide mixtures and single microemulsion formulations, seven of which are even the first microemulsion varieties in China. Mr. Chen also researched deeply in the stabilization of pesticide microemulsion. He is the expert of pesticide formulation. He cooperated with tens of enterprises in China, and more than 10 pesticide formulations were industrialized in those enterprises. What’s more, he set the criterions for more than 10 pesticides and helped them achieve pesticide registrations.

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  Gregory A. Hanger,New Business Development Leader,Dow AgroSciences LLC(Speaker)

  As New Business Development Leader for Ag Chem Platform, Gregory is currently responsible for beyond 10-year vision and global crop protection goals, in addition to work with Discovery teams and leadership to bring new technologies forward into the DAS pipeline. He led the development of Quintec？ fungicide in the Americas in the 90’s, defined market opportunity that led to spinetoram (Delegate？ and Radiant？) insecticide launched in 2008 and defined critical success factors for new sap feeding insecticides, which led to sulfoxaflor insecticide (launching in 2012). Mr. Hanger brought greater focus to DAS Ag Chem Discovery Research Goals by clearly defining critical driving forces and their impact on long-term market opportunities. He also co-authored a publication, entitled The Benefits of Pesticides… A Story Worth Telling.

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  Jinyu Zhang,Business Manager,BASF.(Speaker)

  Graduated from South China Agricultural University, Dr. Zhang owns a doctoral degree in Insect Toxicology. Having been engaged in pest control industry for nearly 17 years, Dr. Zhang is extremely familiar with domestic and overseas markets of hygienic insecticide, raticide and other non-crop products. As a committee member of Medium Biological Committee to China Precaution Medical Association, he is also a member of editorial board to “China Hygienic Insecticide Medical Instrument Magazine” and “China Medium Biology and Control”.\u000d\u000a

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  Norman Lai,Corporate Advisor,Guangzhou CCM Information Science & Technology Co., Ltd.(Speaker)

  Dr. Norman Kim Hung Lai has served Sinochem Fertilizer, BASF, CK Lifesciences, Sicpa Printing Inks, Zeneca and ICI, etc. companies over the region for more than 20 years in the industries of agrochemicals, fertilizers, and chemicals. \u000d\u000a\u000d\u000aNorman was born in New Territories, Hong Kong. After the high school education, he went to Taiwan for university study, and was conferred a bachelor degree in agricultural engineering by the National Taiwan University. Then he returned to Hong Kong, and worked in several organizations including Agricultural and Fisheries Department as Field Officer responsible for pesticide regulatory enforcement; The Royal Hong Kong Golf Club as Golf Course Superintendent before joining ICI in 1989 to start his crop protection life. He holds a doctorate in business administration from the University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.

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  Qingsong Wang,Vice General Manager,Shanghai Heben-Eastsun Medicaments Co., Ltd.(Speaker)

  Qingsong Wang is an engineer. He was engaged in pesticide detection, analysis and quality tracking in Quality Management Department of Yun-Fat Chemical (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. from 2000 to 2004. Mr. Wang served as a manager of Quality Management Department in Shanghai Heben-Eastsun Medicament Co., Ltd. in 2004. In 2005, he was promoted as the vice general manager of the company, responsible for R&D on production, quality and technology, etc., as well as administration work. Since 2011, Mr. Wang has been in charge of production quality, technology and purchasing work in Shanghai Heben-Eastsun Medicament Co., Ltd.

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  Shicheng Wang,General Manager,Beijing Xinhefeng Agrochemical Co., Ltd.(Speaker)

  Born in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in 1965, Shicheng Wang graduated from Tarim University, majoring in Agricultural Science. He worked as Salesman, Department Manager and General Manager Assistant in China State Farms Agribusiness Import & Export Co., Ltd. from 1986 to 2002. Since 2002, Mr. Wang has worked as General Manager and President in Beijing Xinhefeng Agrochemical Co., Ltd.

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  Wei Zhang,General Manager,Shanghai Sinofluoro Scientific Co., Ltd.(Speaker)

  Majoring in Chemical Engineering and Technology, Mr. Zhang graduated from Tianjin University in 2002, and he also got his master degree of Organic Chemistry there in 2005. Mr. Zhang used to work in iGroup - CAS China Office and many other chemical companies. Since 2008, he has been in charge of different positions in Shanghai Sinofluoro Scientific Co., Ltd., such as General Manager, President, etc. Mr. Zhang focuses on the market research and technical transformation of fluorinated polysiloxane medicine and pesticide intermediates, as well as new materials.

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  Yifa Wang,Professor,Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences(Speaker)

  Winning Special Allowance from State Council, Mr. Wang has devoted himself to corn research. He is the Councilman of China Sweet Corn Association, Director of Corn Center to Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and Vice General Manager of Shanghai Agricultural Science Seed Company.

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  Yonggui Xu,,Anhui Fengle Agrochemical Co., Ltd.(Speaker)

  Majoring in Crop Protection, Yonggui Xu had been studied at Anhui Agricultural University from 2001 – 2005. He owns Master Degree of Insect and Pest Control in Nanjing Agricultural University. After graduation, Mr. Xu has been working in Anhui Fengle Agrochemical Co., Ltd., and he has been dedicated himself into the development of agricultural technology.\u000d\u000a\u000d\u000a

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  Yueli Zhang,Registered Consulting Engineer,China National Chemical Corporation(Speaker)

  Graduated from Beijing University of Chemical Technology in 1992, Ms. Zhang has been Chief Editor of “Fine and Specialty Chemicals” for 8 years. She is now working in Consulting Department of China National Chemical Information Centre, dedicating in information research. Focusing on the industrial development and market trend of fine chemicals, Ms. Zhang has full knowledge of governmental policies, market dynamics and technology improvement in domestic and overseas organic chemical industries.

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  Zhenhua Guan,Marketing and Sales Director,Jiangxi Tianren Ecology Co., Ltd.(Speaker)

  Zhenhua Guan, graduated from Guangdong Ocean University in 2003, majoring in Agriculture Science. Mr. Guan, marketing and sales director to Jiangxi Tianren Ecology Co., Ltd., has been working in the company since 2003, taking responsible for the jobs related to sales, marketing, management and consultancy. Having been engaged in biological pest control, Mr. Guan has insightful idea about domestic agrochemical market in the fields of Agriculture, Forestry and Grassland.

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