AgroPages-The 13th Five-year Development Plan for Pesticide Industry of China has released-Agricultural news

By Think Real-The CCPIA officially announced the 13th Five-year Development Plan for Pesticide Industry (2016-2020) (hereinafter referred to as the Plan) on 26 May, 2016.

Development goal

1. Entrepreneurial development goal:

- The production of pesticide TC will be further centralized: by 2020, the number of pesticide TC manufacturers is expected to be reduced by 30% and at the same time, 5 pesticide manufacturers with sales volume of above USD758.85 million (RMB5 billion) and 30 with sales volume of above USD303.53 million (RMB2 billion) are expected to come into being.

- The top 20 domestic pesticide enterprises’ sales volume is expected to capture above 70% of that of the whole nation’s pesticide enterprises. To foster 2-3 big-scale enterprises with sales volume over USD 1.52 billion (RMB10 billion).

- To establish 3 to 5 professional industrial parks for pesticide producers: by 2020, above 80% domestic pesticide TC enterprises are expected to move into these parks.

2. Product development goal

To optimize product structure and let highly efficient and eco-friendly new products, which could take a dominant place in the domestic pesticide market; to improve product quality to an international level.

3. Goal of the construction of innovation system

- To accelerate the industrialization process of innovative pharmaceuticals and strengthen market exploitation: by supporting capable enterprises (groups) to establish and improve GLP system and have related international mutual recognition.

- By 2020, the number of innovative pesticide varieties is expected to be above 70, domestic top 10 pesticide enterprises establish relatively innovation system and matching intellectual property management systems with innovation expanses accounting for above 5% of respective revenue.

- The R&D input is expected to, on average, be above 3% of a company’s revenue for the whole pesticide industry.

4. Technological development goal

By 2020, full automated control will have been used for the processing and packaging of pesticide formulations; the bulk production of pesticide TC will have been automated and the scale of production equipment will also have been upgraded; the technological index of new varieties will have reached international standard and eco-friendly formulations take dominant role in the domestic pesticide market.

5. Goal of environmental protection and resources utilization

By 2020, the special wastes treatment technology will have been further upgrade: the emission volume of “3 wastes” is expected to be reduced by 50%, the yield of pesticides improve by 5%, the utilization rate of pesticide by-products improve by 50% and the disposal rate of pesticide wastes reach 50%.

Table : Status quo of China’s pesticide industry and planned goals in Thirteenth Five-year Plan

Index	Status quo	Planned goals in Thirteenth Five-year Plan
Number of enterprises	>2,000	-
Number of pesticide enterprises located to industrial parks	690-800	500
Proportion of pesticide enterprises located to industrial parks	46%	80%
Number of pesticide enterprises with sales over USD758.9 million	0	5
Number of pesticide enterprises with sales over USD303.5 million	15	30
Proportion of sales of top 20 pesticide enterprise groups in total	15.6%	>70%
Establishment of special industrial parks for pesticide production	-	3～5
Cultivation of large enterprise groups with sales over USD1.5 billion and international competitiveness	-	2～3
Accumulative number of created pesticide varieties	50	>70
Proportion of creation and R&D expenses in enterprise sales	1%～2%	>5%
Proportion of R&D input in sales in pesticide industry	1%	>3%
Reduction in discharge volume of main pollutants	10%	50%
Improvement in output	-	5%
Utilization ratio of by-products and wastes	15%	50%
Treatment ratio of pesticide wastes	20%	50%

Source: CCPIA and NBS