2013 Global Pesticide Registration Watch--Fungicides Part

Date:03-11-2014

According to the incomplete statistics of AgroPages, there were 93 approved pesticide registrations worldwide in 2013 including 77 single agent products and 16 mixture products. Fungicide holds the largest number of registrations with 27 registrations, followed by bio-pesticides with 22 registrations, insecticide with 21 registrations, herbicide with 15 registrations, plant regulator with 5 registrations, acaricide with 2 registrations and fumigant with 1 registration. The main proportion of registrations goes to multinationals, where BASF holds the largest number up to 9 registrations, followed by Syngenta, Bayer CropScience and Dow AgroSciences with 7 registrations each, as well as DuPont with 6 registrations.

Multinationals have continued to apply for registration of their newly developed products and best-seller products over recent years, such as the azoxystrobin and mandipropamid of Syngenta, fluopyram and bixafen of Bayer CropScience, fluxapyroxad and ether benzene sulfonamide of BASF, picoxystrobin and yantraniliprole of DuPont, spinetoram and sulfoxaflor of Dow AgroSciences. Quite a lot of these varieties have individually exceeded sales of USD 100 million or even 1 billion; most of the registrations took place in Europe and US with extended application scope.

Fungicide is of the largest number of new varieties; herbicide is of mainly long-existing varieties with more mixture products. Some multinationals have reduced registration of insecticide, as may be caused by EU’s restricted use of neonicotinoid insecticide in 2013, which is a big impact to Syngenta and Bayer CropScience. Syngenta claimed that EU’s 2-year prohibited use of their thiamethoxam products will lead to a loss of sales volume of USD75 million. Bio-pesticides registrations have increased significantly as compared with the 9 registrations of 2012, attributable to the fast growth of bio-pesticides over the last 2 years, which is 3 times the growth rate of the conventional pesticide. As the market demand for bio-pesticides is growing and the toxicity of bio-pesticides is low, so the requirement on registration of bio-pesticides is more relaxed and can be approved relatively faster also at lower expense, being the reason why there have been blowout bio-pesticides registrations over the last 2 years. Syngenta and Bayer CropScience have respectively obtained 1 bio-pesticides registration in 2013 after the merger with bio-pesticides companies in 2012. It is foreseeable that in the years ahead the multinationals who have acquired bio-pesticides companies are surely going to enhance the development, registration and promotion of bio-pesticides in order to capture more market share of bio-pesticides most probably the European and US market, where pesticide supervision is more stringent, volume of application is higher and awareness of food safety is stronger.

Moreover, bio-pesticides registration has a distinctive feature compared with usual pesticide registration. In this sector, multinationals can no longer outshine others, instead many small scale but very characteristic industry players have emerged. For example, the Marrone Bio Innovations (MBI), which was founded in 2006, achieving sales of only USD7 million in 2012, is striving to become a world largest bio-pesticides-dedicated enterprise as supported by its strong R&D capacity and the fast growing market. Due to its confidence in the future prospects of bio-pesticides industry, MBI expects to achieve sales of USD250 million by 2015.

Fungicides registered in 2013
Company	Trade name	Active ingredient	Use	Country
Syngenta	-	azoxystrobin	use on oats	US
	Revus	mandipropamid	control foliar diseases of vegetables and grapes	Canada
	Astound® canola	fludioxonil+cyprodinil	control Sclerotinia stem rot of canola	Canada
	-	sedaxane	seed treatment fungicide	EU
Bayer CropScience	-	bixafen	cereals	EU
	Brumby 480 SC	prothioconazole	control leaf spot and rust diseases	Australia
	-	fluopyram	grapes, greenhouse and field tomato and strawberries	EU
	-	penflufen	as potato seed treatment	EU
BASF	Zampro	ametoctradin+ dimethomorph	controls downy mildew and late blight of fruiting and leafy vegetables	Canada
	Pageant® Intrinsic™	pyraclostrobin+ boscalid	use on greenhouse-grown tomatoes	US
	Priaxor	pyraclostrobin+ fluxapyroxad	use on corn and soybeans	Canada
	Xemium	fluxapyroxad	soybean	Brazil
DuPont	Aproach Prima	cyproconazole+ picoxystrobin	used on corn, soybean and wheat	US
	Fontelis	penthiopyrad	broad-spectrum control of several diseases of fruits and vegetables	US
Chemtura	Vortex; Rancona	ipconazole	against seedling and soil-borne diseases on grain cereals and corn	Canada
Etec Crop Solutions	KASUMIN	kasugamycin	control the kiwifruit vine disease	New Zealand
Isagro	METTLE™	tetraconazole	control powdery mildew on grape, gooseberry, strawberry and sugar beet	Canada
Loveland Products	Rampart	mono- and dipotassium salts of phosphorous acid	control late blight on post-harvest potatoes and downy mildew in brassica leafy vegetables and grapes	Canada
Luxembourg Industries	-	potassium phosphonates	grapes	EU
Makhteshim Agan	Bumper® ES	propiconazole	control of foliar fungal diseases on corn, soybeans, sorghum	US
Mitsui Chemicals Agro	-	penthiopyrad	fruits, vegetables and ornamental plants	EU
Nippon Soda	Cyflamid 50 EW	cyflufenamid	controls powdery mildew in grapevines and cucurbits	Australia
Pace International	Ecofog-160	pyrimethanil	for postharvest treatment of apples and pears by thermal fogging to control gray mould and suppress blue mould	Canada
Special Materials Company	Avancid® 75	thps	for use in water treatment and oilfield applications	US
Valent	-	fenpyrazamine	almonds, head and leaf lettuces, ginseng, pistachio and ornamentals	US
	-	ethaboxam	seed treatment on corn, soybeans, cereals	US

To be continued......

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