Japan pesticide shipments reached to 13,440 tons in July

According to statistics from the Japan Crop Protection Association, Japanese pesticide shipments has reached to 13,440  tons in the month of July,  the accumulative shipments from October 2010 to July 2011 was 169,277 tons, down by 1.6% year on year, and the accumulative value has down by 0.8% to  294.358 billion Yen.

On volume base, shipments of the pesticide for paddy crop has shrunk by 3.2%; shipments for fruit and vegetables & field crops have grown by 1.2% and 1.6% respectively; shipments of the pesticide for other uses such as non-agricultural , garden, golf has decreased by 13.4%, other sections such as PGR, other biocide, bio-pesticide have down by 3.8%.Shipments for paddy and fruit pesticide have grown by 1.6% and 0.9% on value bases.

For products categories, volumes for insecticides, fungicides, insecticide/fungicide, herbicides and PGRs have changed by -3.2%,+2.8%, -10.3%, 1.0% and -2.6%, and the value changes of the above categories were: -4.3%, -2.0%, +1.1%, +2.4% and 1.1%.