Following the last issue (Fungicides China News 1406), CCM continues to present domestic pesticide companies’ Initial Public Offerings (IPO) in 2014. The introductions about three of six applicants in this year have been shown in this issue, including Limin Chemical, Sevencontinent Green and Huizhou Sino-quick.
As half of 2014 has gone, it is necessary to summarize an overview on the newly approved registrations in H1 2014, by which it could figure out the hottest fungicide products from technical registration number in the period. They were azoxystrobin, fludioxonil, difenoconazole and thifluzamide. These four fungicide ingredients were newly registered with 34 technical registrations in H1 2014, accounting for 46.58% of all new fungicide technical registrations. In terms of single formulations, azoxystrobin and tebuconazole were the two formulations with the most registrations which reached 34 and 32 respectively. In terms of mixed formulations, difenoconazole·azoxystrobin and difenoconazole•propiconazol had the most registrations which were 15 and 8 respectively. For more details, please refer to the main body of this issue.
Note: 1. All tables and figures in this issue are calculated by the same RMB/USD exchange rate (1USD=6.1543RMB); 2. Nuances in some data are mainly caused by rounding principle.

