China's agrochemical trade enjoyed a healthy first quarter of 2013, with exports and imports recording growth in most categories, according to National Bureau of Statistics figures reported in the Chinese media. The foreign trade value for China's pesticide industry in the first three months increased by over a quarter (26.6%) on the same period last year to $1,143 million. The growth reflected the "current strength of the industry" as a whole, according to media reports. Export values for the ...

China's pesticide industry saw principal operating revenues increase by almost a quarter (22.4%) in the first three months of the year to Yuan 61,450 million ($9,844 million at the current rate), reports the China Crop Protection Industry Association (CCPIA). Industry-wide profits jumped by over a third (35.2%) to Yuan 3,780 million ($606 million), when compared with the same period last year. The pesticide industry led the whole petrochemical sector in terms of quarterly profits, the CCPIA ...

The consortium of Indian agbiotech companies, Able-Ag, has appealed to the Minister of Environment and Forests and the chairman of the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC) to allow field trials of genetically modified crops in the upcoming kharif (summer) season. Over 50 applications for field trials have been pending for a year, “severely affecting” research. The GEAC had not held a meeting for a year since since April 2012 and the reconstituting of the committee in March does not ...

The Australian agvet chemical industry association, CropLife Australia, has urged the Australian Senate to reject the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Legislation Amendment Bill, which was passed by the House of Representatives on May 16th. The Association’s chief executive officer, Matthew Cossey, acknowledges that the Bill contains “necessary reforms”, but he remains critical of the addition of “287 new pages of regulation to the rule book for an already inefficient and costly regulatory ...

China is not well known for developing novel agrochemicals but for some 20 years it has been recognised as a major producer of generic pesticide active ingredients and formulated products. Protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) for the few pesticides, such as allicin, jinggangmycin, carbendazim and bisultap, invented and produced in China before 1985 was poor as there was no patent law in place. However, legislation covering IPR introduced in 1984 brought product as well as process ...

China has the ability to synthesise over 30,000 innovative pesticide active ingredients every year, and the capacity to screen over 50,000 ais, reports the China Crop Protection Industry Association (CCPIA). Over the past ten years, an average of two new Chinese-developed ais per year have received temporary registration in the country, and between one and two ais have entered production. As of December last year, 36 Chinese pesticides protected by intellectual property rights had been awarded ...

China is one of the world's largest pesticide-producing nations. In recent history, its pesticide exports have, in the words of the China Crop Protection Industry Association (CCPIA), “expanded year after year”. The country exports to over 180 countries across the globe. According to the CCPIA, growth in 2012 was “comparatively large”, and the export of “high added-value” products such as formulations to high-end markets including the EU and US also saw a marked increase. The Association ...

For the Chinese pesticide industry, 2012 proved a year of “steady recovery” after three years of continued stagnation, reports the China Crop Protection Industry Association. Annual agrochemical production in 2012 exceeded 3 million tonnes for the first time, reaching over 3.5 million tonnes, and showed growth of nearly 20% on the previous year. Incidences of plant diseases and insect pests were more prevalent than in previous years, raising pesticide demand, and leading to rising prices for ...