2016-09-01

On September 12, the "Sixth China Pesticide High-level Forum" sponsored by the China Pesticide Development and Application Association was held in Dalian, Liaoning Province. Experts attending the meeting said that the pesticide industry is currently facing several opportunities. First, the unified control of pests and diseases; Second, the reform of management mechanism; Third, the creation of pesticides.At present, the major innovation in the pesticide industry is undoubtedly the strong promotion of the specialized unified control of pests and diseases. Ye Zhenqin, director of the Department of Plant Management of the Ministry of Agriculture, believes that modern plant protection is mainly reflected in new pesticides and new plant protection machinery. Although China has suffered from extreme natural disasters such as "flood in the north and drought in the south" this year, it is precisely because of the rapid development of the pesticide industry that drives the implementation of modern plant protection technology and unified prevention and control, and ensures that agricultural diseases and insect pests are effectively controlled. Summer grain has achieved the goal of increasing production. From the current situation, autumn grain is growing well, and these achievements are closely related to the reform, innovation and development of pesticides.As for the management reform of pesticide industry, Sui Pengfei, director of the Pesticide Inspection Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture, believes that it is necessary to systematically design, actively promote and pay attention to the timeliness. The management departments and enterprises should fully trust each other, clarify the main position of the government, enterprises and the masses, and the government and enterprises should have the same goals. At present, the main work of the Institute for Drug Control is to promote the introduction of the new pesticide management regulations. However, enterprises should not wait for the introduction of the regulations to reform and innovate, but should greet the introduction of the new regulations with the attitude of reform and innovation. After all, the regulations themselves are backward; Pesticide registration and regulatory measures should be highly consistent; Actively formulate special registration policies for small crops and promote the registration of small crops; Make statistics and sort out the annual spot check results, and resolutely revoke the registration of illegal products; Coordinate and solve the relationship between pesticides and hazardous chemicals; We are actively investigating the differentiated management of enterprises and implementing different management policies between large and small enterprises.Domestic scientists have done a lot of work in the creation of pesticides. Qian Xuhong, an academician of the CAE Member and president of East China University of Science and Technology, suggested that in the past, pesticide development only focused on performance rather than impact, but with food safety, environmental pollution and other issues prominent, pesticide reform should focus not only on performance but also on impact. China's pesticide industry has great potential advantages and countermeasures, that is: division of labor and cooperation, innovation alliance. In recent years, the state has increased its support for newly created pesticides, paid more attention to the research of pesticide formulations, and accelerated the promotion of green industrial technology. There are more than 2000 pesticide production enterprises in China. If these enterprises can reform, break through and innovate, and establish independent alliances, the development of China's pesticide industry will enter a new stage.Liu Jian, counselor of the State Council and president of the China Pesticide Development and Application Association, said that the pesticide high-level development forum had been held for five consecutive sessions and was widely praised by the industry. This was mainly due to the strong pertinence of the topics of each forum, summarizing the early development of the pesticide industry, grasping the current development situation and analyzing the future development direction. The forum was attended by leaders and experts from the industry, as well as more than 400 people from sales, research and development, management and other fields.Source: World Agrochemical Network

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2016-09-01

The website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released the Notice on Application for Alternative Projects of Mercury Reduction and High Toxic Pesticide Substitution for Clean Production Project on the 9th. The project implementation period is from 2013 to 2015.According to the Notice, the scope of alternative projects for high toxic pesticides is: projects that use low toxic pesticide products to replace the original high toxic pesticide products, or projects that implement cleaner production technology transformation of the original process to achieve significant reduction in the production of toxic and harmful substances.The general requirements for application are as follows: 1. The project conforms to the national industrial policy, excluding the obsolete process and equipment in the current national industrial structure adjustment catalogue; 2. The project is a technical transformation project for existing enterprises, and no new capacity will be added after implementation in principle; 3. The technology adopted in the project refers to but is not limited to the industry cleaner production promotion and application technology issued by the state; 4. Projects that have been declared or have been supported by the central financial funds shall be clearly indicated; 5. The total investment in fixed assets of the project shall not be less than 10 million yuan.The specific requirements for the application of high toxic pesticide substitution projects are as follows: The implementation subject of high toxic pesticide substitution projects should be designated pesticide production enterprises, focusing on supporting the project of high toxic pesticide substitution products such as scale insects, resistant cotton bollworm, root-knot nematode, underground pests, rice weevil, rice borer, storage pests, wheat aphid, etc., the project of cleaner production technology transformation of herbicide and pesticide high pollution process, and the optimization of pesticide dosage form Environment-friendly pesticide preparations and other projects.Source: World Agrochemical Network

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2016-09-01

In order to encourage scientific and technological innovation of domestic enterprises and accelerate the introduction of new pesticide products, the re-registration requirements of pesticide products may be increased. This is undoubtedly a challenge for domestic enterprises with traditional pesticides as the leading products. This is the information that the reporter got from the fifth "Hansheng Cup" agrochemical product manager (crop manager) exchange meeting on September 25.According to Ji Ying, chief agronomist of the Pesticide Control Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture, pesticide management agencies in developed countries have complete pesticide registration and re-evaluation systems. A product will be re-evaluated in 10-15 years to determine whether it is harmful to the environment and health, and whether its resistance increases. The registration regulations clearly stipulate that the re-registration requirements are more stringent after 15 years. The input-output ratio, remaining market share and security guarantee are all factors that need to be carefully considered when enterprises re-register products, which urges enterprises to spend more energy on new product development. At present, China has no relevant system for this, resulting in many products and registration certificates of domestic enterprises, but the level is not high. There are many old products and few new products, especially fewer products with independent intellectual property rights. In order to speed up the elimination of old products and promote the birth of new products, we have set up a new Pesticide Re-registration Evaluation Office this year. We hope that enterprises can get some inspiration from it and take some measures in the future.Although the re-registration requirements of traditional pesticides may be improved, traditional pesticides are still the leading products in the market, and there is still a large market space in the future. Yuan Huizhu, a researcher at the Institute of Plant Protection of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, believes that since 2009, there have been more than 30 mergers and acquisitions involving pesticides among major international companies. From the mergers and acquisitions, it can be seen that while traditional large companies focus on biological fungicides, natural enemies and other new pesticides, some traditional pesticides, such as dimethoate, carbaryl, monocrotophos, also receive attention, which shows that old products still have their market position and cannot be given up easily.It is understood that traditional pesticides are still the pillar products of most domestic enterprises at this stage, and the improvement of pesticide re-registration requirements is undoubtedly a new challenge for domestic enterprises. Luo Laichen, manager of marketing department of Jilin Bada Pesticide Co., Ltd., said that the improvement of pesticide re-registration requirements is conducive to the development of domestic pesticide industry. Enterprises have also been investing a lot of energy in scientific research to develop new products. However, the development of new products has certain difficulties. Even if relevant policies are issued in the future and the re-registration requirements are improved, enterprises should register old products in strict accordance with the policies. (Source: China Pesticide Network)

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2016-09-01

The land transfer will change the existing sales model of "manufacturer+planter" or "manufacturer+professional organization+planter".Pesticide enterprises have realized that with the rapid advancement of land transfer, family farms and service organizations, it will not only change the sales mode of pesticides in the future, but also accelerate the integration of pesticide industries. As far as the current situation is concerned, it is still difficult for pesticide production enterprises to directly connect with large farmers. The situation of "thunder and rain are small, but flowers do not bear fruit" is widespread. The proportion of pesticide enterprises to connect with large farmers is less than 1%, and the majority of pesticide enterprises basically follow the original mode of sales.For the reasons, first of all, enterprises are worried about potential risks, including the credit risk of large farmers and the risk of drug damage. In the traditional pesticide sales model, farmers are connected with grass-roots dealers, and everyone is familiar with each other, which reduces the risk of credit. However, if enterprises directly credit large farmers, the risk of payment collection will increase. In addition, once pesticide damage occurs in the process of pesticide application, the risk of large investors is higher than that of retail investors. Secondly, in connection with large farmers, pesticide enterprises lack corresponding technical service teams, and are also worried about affecting existing sales channels. In addition, the connection between enterprises and large enterprises is still in its infancy, and there is a lack of successful experience models for reference.With the acceleration of land transfer and the continuous emergence of large farmers, social professional organizations will be born, such as professional organizations in the fields of medicine, fertilization, cultivation and harvest, agricultural product processing, technical services, trade, etc. These professional organizations will have an impact on the pesticide market. The sales model of the pesticide market will also change, and there may be a new model of "manufacturers+growers" or "manufacturers+professional organizations+growers". As a result of the pesticide industry, the number of channels has been greatly reduced, the number of manufacturers has been greatly reduced, and large-scale industrial integration will occur.How do pesticide enterprises connect with large farmers? Agricultural enterprises not only need to establish professional teams, but also need to change the sales model from sales to service. We can regard the existing channel as a distribution platform, divide the product sales area, pay a certain fee, and sign a tripartite contract, which can not only "ship out", but also share risks.In addition, the products should be suitable for the needs of large customers, such as large packaging. Deal with the relationship between planter product brands and existing brands. Enterprise brands may be more than product brands, and key products can also be brands.Editor's note: This year's No. 1 central document clearly stated that we should vigorously support new agricultural business entities such as professional large households, family farms and farmers' cooperatives. At the current agrochemical product manager (crop manager) exchange meeting, the countermeasures of pesticide marketing under the new situation became a hot topic of attention. Many of the experts and business leaders who attended the meeting also carried out reports on this topic. (Source: rural public)

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2016-09-01

For an enterprise, innovation seeks development, of course, pesticide enterprises are no exception.China's pesticide industry started in the 1980s. For more than 20 years, most pesticide factories started by repackaging foreign products. In the past 10 years, China's pesticide industry has started to take the road of innovation, from less than 800000 tons in 2002 to more than 1.6 million tons in the first half of 2013. Although the development of China's pesticide industry has made gratifying achievements, the author believes that at present, the industry has entered an era of reform, innovation, transformation and upgrading.After more than 30 years of development, China's pesticide industry has entered a peak period. In terms of product types, Chinese pesticide enterprises have been able to produce all pesticide technical drugs except for some varieties protected by patents; From the perspective of pesticide preparation level, pesticides manufactured in China are gradually narrowing the gap between China and the world's pesticide powers; From the perspective of marketing level, Chinese-made pesticides have spread all over the world's agrochemical markets and become the mainstream supplier in many markets.Environmental pollution is currently a major obstacle to the development of the pesticide industry. This year, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology started from the hot glyphosate products in recent years, and promoted environmental protection pilot in the pesticide industry, which was unanimously recognized by the pesticide industry. According to Pesticide Net, at present, 10% of glyphosate production equipment in China is seriously substandard, and the pollution discharge is serious. It is certain that it will be eliminated in this environmental protection inspection. The industry believes that this environmental protection inspection is a big "red envelope" for the regular pesticide production enterprises. Sun Shubao, president of China Pesticide Industry Association, believes that environmental protection inspection is a rectification for glyphosate industry, and also a means to improve glyphosate's current serious overcapacity. In the future, it will be gradually carried out on other products to continuously promote industrial integration, which is also one of the means of industrial merger and reorganization.In addition to the trend of environmental protection, the current changes in domestic planting patterns, the reduction of corporate credibility, and the unbearable plight of dealers are not conducive to the healthy development of the pesticide industry. At the 6th Pesticide High-level Forum, experts put forward the idea of "reform, innovation and development", pooled their ideas to seek the development way of the future pesticide industry and found some methods: in pesticide management, reform the existing management mode, implement differentiated management for enterprises, and clarify who can sell pesticides; In pesticide management, it is proposed to build an e-commerce platform to gradually replace the traditional sales model; In terms of enterprise services, in view of the current situation that rural cooperatives are gradually expanding and becoming the mainstream trend, we actively advocate that pesticide enterprises directly connect with large farmers and reduce circulation links. Both industry experts and enterprise leaders agree to implement comprehensive reform and innovation in pesticide management and operation to improve the popularity of pesticide enterprises, improve the credibility of the pesticide industry and improve the transparency of pesticide operation.Inadequate pesticide creation has always been a hard problem for domestic pesticide enterprises, because China's pesticide industry started late, the level of research and development is backward, and there is a gap between scientific research and achievement transformation. China's lack of pesticide innovation capacity has led to many products being expired by foreign enterprises. Many Chinese enterprises are staring at expired patents. Once they wait for expired patents, they will rush in, which is easy to cause overcapacity. On July 16, seven academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences jointly reported to the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the relevant ministries and commissions of the State Council, proposing to strengthen the national pesticide innovation and application. This has undoubtedly given a boost to the creation of pesticides, which has attracted attention from the national level, and will greatly help the rapid and stable development of the entire pesticide industry.The environmental protection wind of China's pesticide industry can effectively purify the pesticide industry, which is a basic policy. In order to cooperate with the upcoming new pesticide management regulations, new marketing models and the country's guidance on pesticide research and innovation, China's pesticide industry has reached the critical point of innovation. (Source: China Pesticide Network)

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2016-09-01

No. 1 document of ecological agriculture warming up or subsidy degradable agricultural filmAccording to the convention, the annual Central Rural Work Conference will be held in December. The industry generally expects that the theme of this year's "No.1 Document" is ecological agriculture. During the two sessions of this year, the "No. 1 proposal" is the "green agriculture" proposed by the Central Committee of the Jiu San Society, which proposes to strengthen the purchase of waste agricultural film and implement subsidies for farmers to purchase degradable agricultural film. The feedback and implementation of the CPPCC proposal is an important part of the government's work. Under the background of "No.1 Document" focusing on ecological agriculture, the subsidy policy for degradable agricultural film will play a huge role in promoting the industry once implemented.Proposal 1 focuses on degradable agricultural filmDuring the two sessions in March this year, the "No.1 Proposal" of the CPPCC was determined as the "Proposal on Strengthening the Development of Green Agriculture" proposed by the Central Committee of the Jiu San Society.It is understood that the current agricultural development model in most areas of China is still extensive, with prominent problems such as large consumption of resources, serious waste and intensified pollution. First, the waste of fresh water resources is very serious. Due to the imperfect irrigation facilities, the average utilization coefficient of farmland irrigation level in China is only 0.46, far lower than the level of 0.7-0.8 in developed countries; Second, the energy utilization rate is low, about 30% of large agricultural machinery and 50% of small machinery are still in use beyond the retirement period; Third, the pollution is becoming more and more serious. According to the typical survey and positioning monitoring conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture in recent years, the heavy metal pollution area of cultivated land in China is more than 16%, among which the situation is quite serious in the surrounding areas of large cities and industrial and mining areas.The Central Committee of the Jiusan Society believes that to solve the above problems, the extensive agricultural development model must be changed as soon as possible. It is suggested to accelerate the development of projects such as soil testing and formula fertilization, increase the proportion of organic fertilizer, strengthen the purchase of waste agricultural film, implement subsidies for farmers to purchase degradable agricultural film, vigorously promote water-saving projects, and adopt policies to support water-saving production and water-saving technology.After the proposal "on strengthening the development of green agriculture" submitted by the Central Committee of the Jiusan Society became the "0001" proposal of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference this year, the use of degradable agricultural film to reduce farmland pollution and other topics became the focus of market attention.It is difficult to degrade and recycle agricultural filmThe use of plastic film in Xinjiang, Shandong, Hebei and Gansu, the major provinces of plastic film use in China, has been increasing in recent years. Taking Gansu as an example, in 2010, the double-ridge and furrow seeding technology achieved a film coverage area of 6.96 million hectares, other crops coverage area of 530000 hectares, the use of various agricultural plastic films reached 100000 tons, and the annual production of waste agricultural films reached more than 80000 tons.The thickness of domestic agricultural mulch film is only 0.006~0.008 mm, which is far lower than that of foreign countries. This reduces the production cost and also reduces the tensile strength of mulch film, which brings difficulties to the later mechanized recovery. The current recycling of waste agricultural film is mainly manual collection, and the mechanized recovery rate of waste agricultural film is less than 15%.At present, the recovery effect of agricultural plastic film is not ideal. The reasons are as follows: firstly, due to the different planting methods in different regions, there are great differences in the mechanized recycling machines and tools for waste agricultural film, and the regional applicability is poor; Second, the recovery efficiency of waste agricultural film is low; Third, there is insufficient understanding of the hazards of waste agricultural film residues. The treatment methods are also relatively backward: first, on-site treatment. Because the recovery of residual film is mostly manual, the recovery is not complete and the work efficiency is not high. The collected plastic film is mostly on-site treatment, which is stacked on the ridge or field road, and no longer ignored; The second is incineration. The waste agricultural film and weeds or straw collected are burned on the ground, which not only pollutes the environment again, but also causes great waste of resources.In response, some local governments have issued and standardized relevant regulations on agricultural film recycling. At the first meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fifth People's Congress of Hainan Province this year, the Regulations on the Quality and Safety of Agricultural Products in Hainan Province were reviewed and passed, and came into force on June 1. According to the regulations, agricultural producers shall timely remove and recycle agricultural films and other agricultural input packaging materials. At present, Gansu has gradually formed a waste plastic film recycling and utilization network with three links of farmers' picking up, network recycling and enterprise processing, which support and constrain each other. Gansu supports the establishment of a number of waste plastic film recycling and processing enterprises to promote the recycling, processing and reuse of waste plastic film and waste plastic products in surrounding areas according to the use and pollution of plastic film in various regions; Set up waste plastic film recycling stations (points) in villages and towns to facilitate farmers to sell; Carry out the work of "replacing old with new" in combination with film subsidies.

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2016-09-01

Recently, the Association of Pesticide and Preparation Manufacturers of India (PMFAI) submitted an application to the Supreme Court of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, opposing the import regulation of the Indian regulatory authority that "pesticide preparation products without original drug registration can be imported". For this purpose, the High Court of Gujarat, India, issued a decree prohibiting the import of pesticide preparations that have not been registered at the original drug level.The Hon'ble High Court passed a decree on July 11, stipulating that the regulatory body, the Central Pesticide Council and Registration Commission (CIB&RC) of India, will not register the preparation products of the pesticide ingredient before obtaining the registration of the pesticide ingredient.According to the Pesticide Act issued in 1968 in India, the registration committee only distributes and registers pesticide preparations that have been registered with the original drug. However, around 2003, under the influence of some stakeholders, CIB&RC adopted a new regulation - "Pesticide preparation products without technical drug registration can be imported". This provision paves the way for the import of ready-made pharmaceutical products from different countries, which greatly benefits multinational companies and creates a monopoly of registered products. This registration form, which is contrary to the Pesticide Act, allows the drug importers to use the technical drug data for the corresponding drug products produced in any country, while ignoring the quality of the technical drug and the possible impurities in these products, which poses great risks to the farmers and soil environment in India and will have a negative impact on the Indian environment. Such registration also harms the development of India's pesticide industry.Considering the threat to farmers and the environment and the interests of the agrochemical industry in India, PMFAI submitted the above application. (World Agrochemical Network)

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Xinhua, Beijing, September 1 (Xinhua) How to go on the road of agricultural modernization? Who will promote it? What will be the structure of China's rural areas in the future? A few days ago, Han Changfu, Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, interviewed reporters on these major issues related to the development of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers"."This horse has a short leg, and this leg is the basic support leg"Reporter: The 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to promote the "four modernizations". What is the position of agricultural modernization?Han Changfu: The "four modernizations" of industrialization, informatization, urbanization and agricultural modernization are the important historical process of national modernization. If compared to a horse, now three legs are longer and one leg is shorter, and this short leg is also the back leg, which is the basic support leg. China's development is unbalanced and uncoordinated, especially in the relationship between urban and rural areas and the relationship between industry and agriculture. In the final analysis, the development of agricultural modernization lags behind, the construction of new rural areas lags behind, and farmers' income, quality improvement, and rights and interests protection lag behind.The proportion of agriculture in GDP is declining and will decline further, which in no way means that the status of agriculture will decline. No matter how developed, it is necessary to eat; No matter how advanced, the problem of farmers must be solved. The more we accelerate industrialization and urbanization, the more we should pay attention to agricultural modernization. Otherwise, the pace of development will be unstable.Reporter: What should we pay attention to when dealing with the relationship between workers and farmers and between urban and rural areas in the new era?Han Changfu: Over the past 30 years of reform and opening up, China's agricultural development has made great achievements, especially since the new century, the grain production has increased "nine in a row" and the farmers' income has increased "nine in a row". The situation is encouraging, and China's modern agricultural road has laid a good foundation. "Four modernizations" is the key. Without industrialization and urbanization, agricultural modernization cannot be achieved. If industrialization and urbanization demand agricultural resources for free and at a low price, the problem of "where the money comes from, where the people go" is not solved properly, and the process of agricultural modernization will be restricted, which in turn will affect the process of industrialization and urbanization.In the past, during the period of unified purchase and marketing, the "scissors difference" of industrial and agricultural products made great contributions and sacrifices to farmers. Now this problem has been solved relatively well, but the "scissors difference" of factor exchange is still prominent. For example, after the land is expropriated, not much of the huge value-added income falls to the farmers. The wages of migrant workers have increased, but different pay for the same work, and many people do not have social security. Farmers still make a net contribution to industrialization and urbanization. This problem needs to be solved step by step."The pace of progress cannot be slow, nor can it be urgent"Reporter: Compared with western developed countries, China has a large agricultural population and a weak foundation. How should we consider these national factors in agricultural modernization?Han Changfu: In China's agricultural modernization, we should pay attention to China's national conditions and base ourselves on Chinese characteristics. Unlike the large-scale agricultural modernization of the United States and other western developed countries, China has many agricultural resources, and has strong industrial equipment and urban drive; Also different from the modernization of Japan, South Korea and other East Asian countries, their agricultural population is relatively small. For example, the total population of South Korea was only 30 million in the 1970s, and the "New Village Movement" changed the face of rural areas in the past decade. China was developed on the basis of small-scale peasant economy. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, 90% of the population were farmers, and only 19% of the urban population until 1980. Now the statistics show that the urban population is more than half, but the farmers are still the majority. The modernization of such a large agricultural population has no precedent in the world.The unique national conditions determine that China's agricultural modernization cannot be slow or urgent, and it needs a long process. To develop modern agriculture, it is impossible to carry out agricultural mechanization without a certain scale, and it is also difficult to connect with the market. Therefore, China's agriculture should also follow the path of large-scale operation. However, large-scale operation must be based on the massive transfer of farmers. If farmers do not transfer out and become citizens, the excessive scale of land will cause a large number of landless farmers and bring serious social problems. The speed and degree of large-scale operation should be in line with the transfer of farmers, and should follow the trend. We cannot set tasks, set targets, or force orders.Reporter: The "No.1 Document" of the Central Committee proposes to develop family farms. What is the difference between Chinese family farms and western countries?Han Changfu: Family farm is the main mode of agriculture in western countries, and its essence is family management. Family management can adapt to both traditional and modern productivity. There is no problem that agricultural modernization will change family management. China also needs to develop family farms on the basis of household contract management. China's family farms should emphasize the appropriate scale. American family farms often cover thousands of acres or even tens of thousands of acres. I have been to Brazil and Argentina, and a family farm covers more than 3000 hectares. China can't do it on that scale. At present, each farmer has only half a hectare of land. If a family farm has 1000 hectares, it means that 2000 households have their land planted for one household. What are the other people doing? It must be a long process to find a way out. Therefore, China's moderate scale of operation is determined by its national conditions.To build a family farm, we should consider the following supporting issues: Is the family farm a legal person? What supporting and guiding policies are there? In particular, there should be social services. The socialized services of western family farms are sound. If the tractor breaks down, someone will repair it after calling. There is also a professional team to provide services for medicine. We still have a big gap in this respect."Let Chinese people have enough and eat well, and let farmers really become rich"Reporter: What is the goal of our agricultural modernization?Han Changfu: In China's agricultural modernization, the first step is to ensure the food security of more than one billion people and the effective supply of important agricultural products, so that the Chinese people can eat well. Second, we should make farmers rich, transfer them and share the fruits of industrialization, informatization, urbanization and agricultural modernization. Without these two principles, agricultural modernization will go astray. At a deeper level, China's agricultural modernization should not only solve agricultural problems, but also solve farmers' problems; We should consider not only industrial economic issues, but also rural social issues.The Chinese people's jobs should be firmly in their hands, and their production capacity should be basically built on themselves. The two are inseparable. This is also "bottom line thinking". Of course, ensuring food security is not "asking for nothing". We should properly import the main grain on the premise of giving priority to ensuring self-sufficiency. Take soybeans as an example. When China joined the WTO, the import of soybeans was only more than 10 million tons, and now more than 50 million tons. At that time, the national soybean area was 140 million mu, but now it is only 100 million mu. Other crops have been converted to corn and rice, with higher yield, better benefits, more willing farmers, and more needs in China, so we will follow the trend. The export of labor-intensive products, such as fruits, vegetables, aquatic products and poultry, increased after China's entry into the WTO; The import of resource-based agricultural products, such as soybeans, edible oil and sucrose, increased. This is a positive change in the import and export structure.The concept of grain in western countries refers to wheat, rice and corn. China also includes soybean and potato, potato and sweet potato. At present, the average self-sufficiency rate of the three major cereals in China is 98%. The import of rice and wheat mainly depends on variety adjustment. The import of corn will be gradually and appropriately expanded, because as the consumption of meat, eggs and milk increases, the demand for feed grain will also increase. In addition, the corn industry chain is long, and there are thousands of products. The expansion of corn deep processing will also bring new demand.Reporter: What about farmers' income?Han Changfu: It is difficult for farmers to further increase their income. Farmers' income mainly includes family operating income, wage income, property income and transfer income, and the basis is family operating income. Now the cost of manpower and means of production is rising, and the income space of farmers is squeezed. We should speed up the development of modern agriculture and raise this income. At least four things should be done: promote the improvement of science and technology, equipment, seeds and agricultural mechanization, build high standard farmland water conservancy, improve the agricultural socialized service system, and cultivate new professional farmers. These four aspects need the support of national policies and are also the new driving force for farmers to increase their income. Government subsidies account for a large part of farmers' income in western developed countries. Another is to increase the income of migrant workers and improve the property income of farmers."Farmers are the main body of developing modern agriculture"Reporter: In recent years, more and more business entities have entered agriculture. So, is there any new change in the role of farmers?Han Changfu: We are "three rural", not "one rural". Large enterprises can only hire a small number of farmers when they go to the countryside to "counter rent and subcontract". What about other farmers? To develop modern agriculture, the point of action and combination of productive forces and production relations lies in the main body of business, and cultivating new main bodies of business is a basic way. Who will be the main body? I think farmers should be the main body. If the new main body excludes the farmers, agricultural modernization is not created by the farmers, but by the outside world, and the problem of farmers is still unsolved.We should develop large farmers in the planting industry, breeding industry, farmers' cooperatives, especially professional cooperatives, and let them be the main body to guide the land to concentrate on the skilled farmers. The new management system for developing modern agriculture is based on the new type of professional farmers, together with the socialized service organizations and industrialized leading enterprises.Reporter: How do enterprises divide labor with farmers?Han Changfu: We encourage and welcome enterprises to invest in agriculture. However, when enterprises invest in agricultural operation, they need to connect with farmers, family farms and professional cooperatives. For example, farmers who operate greenhouses to grow vegetables do not necessarily raise seedlings by themselves, but leading enterprises can do it; Farmers do not need to raise chickens and sell pigs by themselves. They can cooperate with enterprises in order. Industrial and commercial enterprises do not necessarily have to plant land, engage in pre-production, mid-production and post-production services, and engage in seedling, circulation, processing and sales. Reasonable division of labor between enterprises and large professional households and family farms in the industrial chain can achieve mutual benefit and win-win results and promote industrial modernization."At that time, farmers are no longer an identity, but a profession"Reporter: There is a saying that agricultural modernization is to reduce farmers. To what extent will farmers be reduced?Han Changfu: Rich farmers need to reduce farmers. With the advancement of agricultural modernization, the rural population will certainly decrease, but it will not be as small as in some western countries. By 2030, the peak population of China will be 1.5 billion. If the urbanization rate reaches 70% at that time, it means that there are still 400 million to 450 million people in rural areas, and the rural labor force is about 200 million, including about 40 million to 50 million farming labor force, and some people are engaged in animal husbandry, including the employment around agriculture such as primary processing, storage, transportation and marketing of agricultural products.Reporter: What will happen to farmers' lives?Han Changfu: When the agricultural modernization is realized, some large farms may appear, but the basic structure is a family farm of moderate scale. Farmers are no longer an identity, but a profession, and are agricultural industry practitioners. Farmers will have socialized services for farming. The degree of scientization, mechanization and organization is relatively high, and the labor intensity is not too high. The income from farming is not worse than that of migrant workers and urban residents. Modern housing construction, roads leading to the door, farmers can take a hot bath a day. Basic public services in urban and rural areas have been equalized, and children's schooling, medical care, and old-age care are not much different from those in urban areas. This is the wish of Chinese farmers, which can only be realized through continuous efforts. (Author: Zhao Cheng, Dong Jun Source: Xinhuanet)

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On July 4, 2013, the 340th meeting of the Central Pesticide Council and Registration Committee (CIBRC) of India was held in New Delhi. The meeting approved the registration of five pesticide technical drugs.In terms of product types, the five technical drug registrations include three pesticides, one herbicide and one plant growth regulator; From the perspective of registration category, only one registration belongs to 9 (3) registration (no special export registration), and the remaining four registration belongs to 9 (4) registration.See the following table for details:Common nameRegistered holderRegistration categoryInsecticideThiodicarbGSP Crop Science9 (4)Emamectin BenzoateKrishi Rasayan Exports9 (3)IndoxacarbMakhteshim Agan India9 (4)herbicidePendimethalinInsecticides India9 (4)plant growth regulatorChlormequat ChlorideMauni Agro Chemical9 (4)

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2016-09-01

In recent years, the pesticide market has been mixed, with fake drugs, substandard drugs, illegal drug use and other phenomena appearing from time to time, such as poison cowpea, poison leek, watermelon swelling agent, mosquito repellent toilet water, etc., which once put the pesticide products into an embarrassing situation of being "demonized" collectively. An important crux of the problem lies in the lack of brand, and the solution lies in brand building.The newly revised Regulations on the Administration of Pesticides will be officially released. The newly introduced contents such as the cancellation of temporary registration, the establishment of business license, the addition of exclusive export registration, and the strengthening of market supervision will create a better environment for the development of brand pesticides with excellent quality and good reputation.At the recent China Brand Agricultural Means of Production Conference, the topic of pesticide has attracted wide attention. Although pesticides account for only about 7% of China's agricultural cost composition, less than 44% of chemical fertilizers and 12% of seeds, the demand for pesticides is "rigid": without pesticides as a guarantee, China's "nine consecutive increases" in grain production are difficult to achieve.In recent years, the pesticide market has been mixed, with fake drugs, substandard drugs, illegal drug use and other phenomena appearing from time to time, such as poison cowpea, poison leek, watermelon swelling agent, mosquito repellent toilet water, etc., which once put the pesticide products into an embarrassing situation of being "demonized" collectively. An important crux of the problem lies in the lack of brand, and the solution still lies in brand building. To guide pesticide enterprises to take the path of brand development, agricultural producers should actively promote the use of brand pesticide products.For pesticide products, brand means not only quality and effectiveness, but also social responsibility. As a kind of special agricultural materials, pesticide itself may bring certain risks to human beings, animals and ecological environment while ensuring agricultural production, which determines that brand pesticide must reduce its own harm while playing a role of prevention and control to a large extent.The newly revised Regulations on the Administration of Pesticides will be officially released. The newly introduced contents such as the cancellation of temporary registration, the establishment of business license, the addition of exclusive export registration, and the strengthening of market supervision will create a better environment for the development of brand pesticides with excellent quality and good reputation.At the same time, the development of modern agriculture marked by standardization, scale and specialization also calls for brand pesticides. With the reform of rural management system, especially the vigorous development of agricultural professional cooperatives, fake and inferior pesticides will be gradually driven out of the market, and brand pesticides will gain development opportunities. The development of brand pesticides also needs the cooperation of management, production, operation and other links. From the perspective of the industry management department, it is necessary to strengthen the pesticide registration system, strengthen market supervision, establish a recall system, etc., to escort the development of brand pesticides; From the perspective of production enterprises, we should not only strengthen the quality management of enterprises, but also strengthen their sense of social responsibility.Pesticides are different from general consumer goods, requiring manufacturers and operators to pay more attention to after-sales service. Whoever teaches farmers will win farmers and public praise. (Source: www.china.com.cn)

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