AgroPages-China approved 21 pesticide ais registrations in January 2013-Agricultural news

The Chinese Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA) has approved the registrations of 21 pesticide active ingredients in January, 2013 (excluding the renewal of registration), covering 15 herbicides, 2 fungicides , 3 insecticides and 1 Plant growth regulator.

Common Name	Formulation	Common Name	Formulation
Insecticide（3）		Fungicide（2）
flubendiamide	95%TC	propiconazole	95% TC
pymetrozine	97%TC（2）	sphaerotheca amyloliquefaciens	10billion spore/g TK
Herbicide（15）
glufosinate-ammonium	95% TC（2）	cyhalofop-butyl	97% TC
pyraflufen-ethyl	95% TC	thifensulfuron ）	97% TC
sulcotrione *	98% TC	triclopyr *	99%TC
methabenzthiazuron *	96% TC	Triclopyr butoxyethyl ester *	98%TC
imazapic *	97% TC	mesotrione	96%TC
aminopyralid	91.6%TC	clomazone	95%TC
imazapyr *	98% TC	carfentrazone-ethyl	95%TC
Plant Growth Regulator（1）
thidiazuron	98% TC
Source: ICAMA * Only for export; TC:Technical Material ; TK: Technical ConcentrateMA

In terms of registration type, there are 18 formal registrations (5-year validity), 5 of them only for export, the remained 3 belong to interim registration (1-year validity), 1 of them only for export .

Furthermore, Jiangsu Changlong Chemicals CO Ltd received the registration approval for herbicide methabenzthiazuron ( 96%TC), Shaanxi Jialunduo Crop Science Co.,Ltd received the registration approval for a fungicide sphaerotheca amyloliquefaciens TK, both of which were registered in China for the first time. In addition, Shandong Cynda Chemical has got the registration of pyraflufen-ethyl 95%TC, becoming the second company to register this product after Nihon Nohyaku Co., Ltd.

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