AgroPages-2012 China’s Major Pesticides Varieties Tracking

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Agropages has been tracking the Chinese market situation of the major pesticides varieties and would like to shape a picture of these products here in our annual review, to help industry people have better understanding the supplying and demanding status for right sourcing decision.

2012 Exporting value of Major Pesticide*
Rank	Pesticide Name	Exporting Value in USD
1	glyphosate	1,427.27 million
2	imidacloprid	359.64 million
3	paraquat	334.47 million
4	atrazine	192.06 million
5	chlorpyrifos	162.86 million
6	2,4-D	143.02 million
7	carbendazim	108.97 million
8	chlorothalonil	67.7 million
* Source: ICAMA

Glyphosate

- Registered Formulations
TC, AS, SG, SP, WG

- Market Status
Global output of glyphosate is predicted to grow by 5% to 800,000 tonnes in 2013. China export volume have remained 280,000～300,000 tonnes every year in the past 4 or 5 years.

- Main Chinese producers:
Wynca Group
Nantong Jiangshan
Fuhua Tongda
Zhejiang Jinfanda
Yangnong Chemical

The total capacity of these 5 companies reaches 350,000 tonnes and the output accounted for over 85% of total national output in 2011.

- Price Trend
Price of technical glyphosate started to go up from the 2nd quarter of 2012, and rose sharply in Q3; while entering a period of adjustment in Q4, price inflation slowed.

The current price ranges between Yuan 35,500 and 36,000/ton in some local regions, with a increasing of 40% comparing to same period of last year.

- Events
• Australia restarts antidumping investigation on formulated glyphosate against China.
• Glyphosate plants to shut down if failed to pass environment protection audit
• Wynca won EU glyphosate anti-dumping lawsuit.
• Glyphosate price increase boosting up Chinese companies’ share price
• ICAMA stops registration of glyphosate AS with content below 30%.