Fungicides China Monthly Report

Welcome to Fungicides China News published by CCM, a professional consulting company which has been extensively and intently focusing on the dynamics of China's fungicide industry.

A majority of domestic listed pesticide companies performed well in the first half of 2012 with gradual recovery in pesticide industry, such as Nanjing Redsun Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Changqing Agrochemical Co., Ltd. and Jiangsu Huifeng Agrochemical Co., Ltd. However, not every pesticide enterprise enjoyed sound performance. For instance, Shenzhen Noposion Agrochemicals Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Lanfeng Biochemical Co., Ltd. and Zhejiang Qianjiang Biochemical Co., Ltd. suffered net profit decline in different degrees in H1 2012.

As for domestic fungicide market, rice fungicides are the most eye-catching recently as key diseases, like blast, sheath blight and southern rice black-streaked dwarf disease, continue spreading in main rice planting regions of China, accumulatively reaching about 51.33 million ha., as of mid-Aug. 2012, up 12.0% over the last week and 13.1% year on year.

Under the circumstances, the demand for rice fungicides witnesses increase to a certain extent in China. Take fungicides to control rice blast for example, they have been enjoying fast sale recently, mainly including tricyclazole, isoprothiolane, fenoxanil, prochloraz, tebuconazole, epoxiconazole, azoxystrobin, bacillus subtilis, bacillus cereus, etc.

As well known, China’s import volume of fungicides has been rising in recent years. Statistics from the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China (GAC) show that the import volume of fungicides in China hits around 15,507 tonnes in the first seven months of 2012, up 24.35% year on year. Whereas, fungicide export volume slides in the mean time, decreasing to about 42,521 tonnes, down 8.30% year on year.

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