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China’s eleven months pesticides output reached 2.37 million tons
Mar. 8, 2012
In November 2011, China has produced 240,000 tons of pesticides, down 5.1% year on year. Cumulative pesticide output from January to November was 2.38 million tons, drop by 4.5%, consisting of 629,500 tons of insecticides, down 20% year on year; 138,800 tons of fungicides, down 23.1%; 1,056,700 tons of herbicides, up 6.3%. Herbicides account for the largest proportion of the total pesticides output with its 44.8% share. The proportion for insecticides and fungicides were 26.5% and 5.8%, respectively.
The leading province of pesticides production in the first eleven months was Jiangsu Province, with output 680,000 tons, up 22.8% comparing with the same period of last year, accounted for 28.8% of Chinese total output. The following provinces were Shandong, Zhejiang and Hubei, accounting for 20%, 9.3% and 7.8% of total output.
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China’s eleven months pesticides output (000 tons)
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Category
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2011
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2010
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%change
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Herbicides
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1056.7
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994.0
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+6.3
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Insecticides
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629.5
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787.0
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-20.0
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Fungicides
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136.8
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178.0
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-23.1
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Other
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553.0
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528.1
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+4.7
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Total
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2376.0
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2487.1
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-4.5
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Source: Askci
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