China’s eleven months pesticides output reached 2.37 million tons

Date:03-08-2012

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.

China’s eleven months pesticides output (000 tons)
Category	2011	2010	%change
Herbicides	1056.7	994.0	+6.3
Insecticides	629.5	787.0	-20.0
Fungicides	136.8	178.0	-23.1
Other	553.0	528.1	+4.7
Total	2376.0	2487.1	-4.5
Source: Askci