2013 Global Pesticide Registration Watch—Herbicides,Biopesticides and Others

Date:03-13-2014

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.

Biopesticides registered in 2013
Syngenta			-	pasteuria	nematicide seed treatment	US
Bayer CropScience			-	bacillus firmus strain i-1582	field and greenhouse carrots and greenhouse cucumbers	EU
Becker Underwood			Integral® F-33	bacillus pumilus strain bu f-33	suppress plant pathogens such as Pythium ultimum, Fusarium oxysporum, Rhizoctonia solani	US
Bedoukian Research			-	ethyl-2e, 4z-decadienoate	as a biochemical pesticide for codling moths mating disruption	US
Fargro			T34 biocontrol	trichoderma asperellum strain t34	to suppress fusarium wilt caused by Fusarium oxysporum on greenhouse ornamentals	Canada
FUTURECO BIOSCIENCE			-	paecilomyces fumosoroseus strain fe 9901	fruit, vegetables and ornamental plants	EU
Isagro			REMEDIER	Trichoderma asperellum+T.gamsii	use on grapevine against “Esca disease complex”	EU
Isagro USA			DOMINUS®	allyl isothiocyanate	pre-plant soil treatment	US
Marrone Bio Innovations			Zequanox	pseudomonas fluorescens strain cl145a	control invasive zebra and quagga mussels in pipe systems and infrastructure	US
			Zequanox	pseudomonas fluorescens strain cl145a	control dreissenid mussels (Zebra and Quagga mussels) in industrial water structures	Canada
			Regalia® Maxx	extract of reynoutria sachalinensis	control bacterial and fungal diseases across an array of agricultural crops	ElSalvador
			Regalia® Maxx	extract of reynoutria sachalinensis	as above	Guatemala
			Regalia® Maxx	extract of reynoutria sachalinensis	as above	Honduras
MPT-Mustard			-	allyl isothiocyanate	control plant parasitic nematodes as well as soil borne diseases	US
Novozymes			Met52 EC	metarhizium anisopliae strain f52	control whiteflies and thrips on greenhouse food crops and hairy chinch bugs and ticks on turf	Canada
			Taegro	bacillus subtilis var. amyloliquefaciens strain fzb24	greenhouse cyclamen, wheat, lettuce, tomato	Canada
Pacific Biocontrol Corporation			-	dwb pheromone	as a mating disruptor of the dogwood borer on fruits and woody ornamental nursery crops	Canada
Phyllom BioProducts			Phyllom grubGONE! G; Phyllom beetleGONE!	bacillus thuringiensis subsp.galleriae strain sds-502	use on a wide range of crops, turf and ornamentals	US
Stockton			Timorex Gold	melaleuca alternifolia	greenhouse peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers	Canada
Terramera			CIRKIL	neem oil	kill both bed bugs and their eggs	US
Valent BioSciences			-	s-abscisic	enhances plant resistance to environmental stress	Australia
Westbridge Agricultural Products			Botector	aureobasidium pullulans	for use against Botrytis gray mold on grapes and berries	US
Herbicides registered in 2013
Syngenta			Callisto® GT	mesotrione+ glyphosate	control broadleaf weed in glyphosate-tolerant corn		US
Bayer CropScience			-	tembotrione	maize and sweet corn		EU
BASF			Zidua	pyroxasulfone	soybeans herbicide		US
			OPTILL	imazethapyr+ saflufenacil	pre-plant soybean herbicide		Canada
Dow AgroScience			Defendor	florasulam	broadleaf weed control		US
			Enlist Duo	glyphosate+ 2,4-D choline	corn and soybean		Canada
Arysta LifeScience			CENTURION® MAX	clethodim	controls grass-weeds in winter oilseed rape and sugar beet		US
FMC			Authority Maxx	chlorimuron-ethyl+ sulfentrazone	used on soybeans		US
			Anthem	pyroxasulfone+ fluthiacet-methyl	control broadleaf weeds in soybeans		US
			Zeus	sulfentrazone	grapes, oranges, lemons, pistachios		US
			Dismiss® CA Turf	sulfentrazone	control sedges and sedge		US
Nissan Chemical			-	halosulfuron-methyl	control broadleaf and cyperaceae weeds		EU
Rotam			Dicamba 480 SL	dicamba	cereals		US
			Primero®	nicosulfuron	control annual grasses and perennial broadleaves		France
			Tuken	diflufenican	sunflower and pastures		Argentina
Plant growth regulators registered in 2013
Amvac Chemical		SmartBlock		3 - decylene - 2 - ketone	treatment of post-harvest potatoes		US
Chrysal		-		sodium silver thiosulfate	cut flowers		EU
FBSciences		-		complex polymeric polyhydroxy acids	greenhouse and field crops		US
Fine Agrochemicals		Blush®		prohydrojasmon	for fruit colour development and enhancement on red apples		US
Fine Americas		Collate		ethephon	for greenhouse use		US
Fumigant registered in 2013
BOC LIMITED		sterigas 1000		ethanedinitrile	control of fungi and insects infesting timber		Australia
Acaricides registered in 2013
BASF	Mythic Insecticide			chlorfenapyr	for use in exterior of buildings against various pests and as pre-construction and post-construction termiticide		Canada
	Pylon Miticide Insecticide			chlorfenapyr	use on greenhouse ornamentals and fruiting vegetables		Canada

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