2016-09-01

On May 29, 2013, the 339th meeting of the Central Pesticide Council and Registration Committee (CIBRC) of India was held in New Delhi. The meeting approved the registration of 18 pesticides.In terms of product types, the 18 registrations include 11 herbicides, 3 fungicides, 2 insecticides, 1 bactericide and 1 acaricide; From the registration category, 11 registrations belong to 9 (3) registrations (9 of which are exclusively for export), and the remaining 7 registrations belong to 9 (4) registrations; Among the registered enterprises, Cheminova India has been approved for many registration projects, including three herbicides and two fungicides, followed by Parijat Industries India, whose three herbicide products have been approved for registration.See the following table for details:Common nameRegistered holderRegistration categoryherbicideMetobromuronDeccan Fine Chemicals India9 (3)Exclusive for exportEthofumesateHPM Chemicals & Fertilizers9 (3)Exclusive for exportFlorasulamCheminova India9 (3)Exclusive for exportClodinafop-propargylCheminova India9(4)ButachlorJai Shree Rasayan Udyog9(4)GlyphosateAmbey Laboratories9(4)BeflubutamidCheminova India9 (3)Exclusive for exportDiflufenicanParijat Industries India9 (3)Exclusive for exportThifensulfuron-methylParijat Industries India9 (3)Exclusive for exportTribenuron-methylParijat Industries India9 (3)Exclusive for exportPicloramAtul9 (3)Exclusive for exportbactericideTebuconazoleExcel Crop Care9(3)PropiconazoleCheminova India9(4)MyclobutanilCheminova India9(4)BronopolMelzer Chemicals9 (3)Exclusive for exportInsecticideBeta-cyfluthrinBilag Industries9(3)IndoxacarbGSP Crop Science9(4)AcaricideFenpyroximateBharat Rasayan9(4)source：CIBRC

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2016-09-01

The Central Pesticide Commission of India investigated the suspected illegal import of imidacloprid technical

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2016-09-01

As China's accession to the WTO is imminent, in view of the irrational structure of the pesticide industry and the lack of competitiveness of the varieties, the relevant national departments will speed up the pace of structural adjustment of pesticide production.The State Economic and Trade Commission recently approved 47 enterprises including Tianjin Pesticide Co., Ltd. to increase the production of designated pesticide varieties. It is reported that this is the first time that the government has published the list of approved pesticide manufacturers and production varieties online in the form of announcement. The second batch of approved enterprises and varieties will be published in October this year.Relevant data show that the variety structure of pesticides in China is not reasonable. At present, there are about 200 kinds of pesticides produced, with an annual output of more than 400000 tons, of which 30% of the production of highly toxic pesticides that have been restricted internationally. The repeated construction of pesticide enterprises in China is also quite serious. There are seven or eight enterprises producing a pesticide in one province, and the regional distribution is extremely unreasonable. The pesticide enterprises in Jiangsu, Henan and Shandong provinces alone account for more than 30% of the total number of pesticide enterprises.In order to ensure the safety of people's lives and property, improve the quality of life, protect the ecological environment and adapt to the requirements of sustainable agricultural development, the relevant departments of the national government have listed the development of new pesticides with high efficiency, safety and low toxicity as the priority of high-tech industrialization. After China's entry into WTO, the external environment of China's pesticide industry will change greatly, which objectively requires major adjustments to the regional layout and product structure of pesticides.It is understood that the period of validity of approved manufacturers and production varieties is 2 years. Enterprises that have passed the approval must complete the relevant procedures such as use registration and production approval certificate within the period of validity in strict accordance with the approved contents. Any enterprise that expands and changes the approval content, transfers the approval without authorization, or fails to complete the use registration, production approval certificate and other procedures within 2 years, the approval obtained will automatically become invalid. At the same time, the government will further restrict and eliminate backward pesticide products through the registration of pesticide varieties and the issuance of production approval certificates. The relevant departments are working hard to formulate management opinions on standardizing pesticide approval and production approval certificates. (He Huiwen source: Beifang. com)

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2016-09-01

The boom of the pesticide market continued in the second quarter, and the performance of the mid-report was quite expected, which was the main factor for the strength of the stock market. At the same time, the environmental protection verification of glyphosate and pyridine antidumping pushed the price up and further boosted the performance of the sector.Wang Lichen, a pesticide analyst at Zhuochuang Information, believes that although the price trend of glyphosate and other major pesticides has stabilized after the sharp rise in the early stage, it has been at a high level, and some are still slowly rising. For example, since June, the price of glyphosate has reached about 38000/ton. The price of pure pyridine rose 5.56% in the week before the Dragon Boat Festival and also climbed to 38000 yuan/ton. Among chemical products, pesticide is one of the few major varieties with rising prices this year, reflecting the continuation of the industry boom since the end of the year.Wang Lichen said that the main reason behind the continuation of the industry boom is the strong demand. In addition to glyphosate, many enterprise orders are scheduled for late June, and the supply of paraquat, another herbicide, is also tight due to the strong demand in the downstream, which has led to an increase in the current market price of 42% of the mainstream price of paraquat mother to 215-23 million yuan/ton. At the same time, the supply of glyphosate is also suppressed by environmental protection verification, which makes the supply more tense. The pyridine upstream of paraquat also further supported the market price due to the anti-dumping of the Ministry of Commerce against India and Japan.In a word, under the influence of various factors such as strong demand, the price of several pesticide varieties has been moving well this year, which not only benefited the relevant listed companies in the first quarter, but also made the market look forward to the results of the midterm report. Some market participants said that at present, the stable growth of the mid-report performance continued, and even exceeded expectations. Excluding food and medicine, the traditional industries are mainly pesticides, thermal power, automobiles, rubber products, etc.At present, of the 11 companies in the pesticide industry that have issued the interim performance forecast, 2 are expected to turn around losses, 7 are expected to increase, and only 2 are expected to decrease. The medium-term performance of the industry is really worth looking forward to. In terms of the current popular pesticide varieties, Shi Mingxuan said that glyphosate mainly includes Xin'an Shares, Jiangshan Shares and Yangnong Chemical; The main companies of paraquat are Red Sun and Sanonda A. (Green coagulation)

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2015-12-16

The Consumer Survey column of CCTV recently exposed the phenomenon that some vegetable growers in Zengcheng and Conghua District of Guangzhou used banned pesticides on vegetables and other crops, putting the issue of high toxic pesticide supervision on the table again. In fact, there have been many incidents of using highly toxic pesticides to grow vegetables in Guangdong in recent years. Since 2010, at least 12 cases have been involved in 6 cities, including Zhongshan, Dongguan, Foshan, Zhuhai, Jiangmen and Guangzhou.However, recently, media reporters visited several vegetable bases in the Pearl River Delta where the "toxic vegetable" incident had occurred, and no re-use of highly toxic pesticides was found. The problem of "toxic vegetables" has not recurred, partly because the crackdown on illegal use of drugs by vegetable farmers has been stricter everywhere. For example, in Sanshui, Foshan, Shaxi, Zhongshan and other places, vegetable farmers have been sentenced to 9 months for using highly toxic pesticides to grow vegetables.Agricultural products cannot be separated from pesticides, just as food cannot be separated from various additives. However, everything is too much to say. The excessive use of pesticides in vegetable planting, even the use of restricted pesticides or banned highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides, is completely the opposite of the rational use of pesticides. From the experience of Foshan, the key to eliminate "toxic vegetables" is to crack down on the illegal use of highly toxic pesticides in accordance with the law.The harm of highly toxic pesticides is obvious. The use of highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides in the planting of vegetables, melons and fruits can easily lead to excessive pesticide residues, harm human health and bring a strong sense of insecurity to consumers. Scientific research results have shown that the harm of pesticides to human body is mainly manifested in three forms: acute poisoning, chronic harm and carcinogenic, teratogenic, mutagenic and other "three causes" harm.It remains in soil and water, causing serious pollution to the environment. The data is convincing: China's pesticide use is 2.5 times the world average. At present, about 1.75 million tons of various pesticides are used every year, of which 70% enter the soil, air and water, and only 30% directly affect the target organism.In fact, highly toxic pesticides should not be used in vegetables, melons, fruits, tea and Chinese herbal medicine, which has been explicitly stipulated in China. Article 27 of the Regulations on the Administration of Pesticides, revised in 2001, clearly stipulates that "highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides shall not be used for the prevention and control of health pests, and shall not be used for vegetables, fruits, tea and traditional Chinese medicine."Since 2011, the Ministry of Agriculture has required highly toxic pesticide business units to verify and standardize, purchase pesticides with real names, record the flow of information, and dynamically manage the flow of targeted pesticides, so that 100% of the information of highly toxic pesticides can be queried, 100% of the flow can be tracked, and 100% of the quality can be guaranteed. The "historically stricter" food safety law, which was officially implemented on October 1 this year, also clearly stipulates that "it is prohibited to use highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides on vegetables, fruits, tea, Chinese herbal medicine and other crops specified by the state."However, up to now, relevant regulations and requirements still cannot stop the pace of spraying high toxic pesticides on vegetables and fruits. High toxic pesticides are sold and abused at will, and even the pesticides produced and used by the state are sold and used at will.The reasons are: on the one hand, the sales of highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides are too casual and not managed according to the specifications; On the other hand, it is difficult to popularize biopesticides. Although the level of research and development of biopesticides in China is comparable to that in the world, the high cost has become a major problem hindering the promotion; Basically, China's agriculture is still a smallholder economy dominated by one household, leading to the lack of effective restraint and supervision in the use of highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides, and the imperfect regulatory system. According to national regulations, agricultural products such as vegetables, melons and fruits must be tested for pesticide residues before they go on the market. However, due to the lack of technology and funds, the detection of agricultural products in many places is virtually non-existent, resulting in farmers' concern about the use of highly toxic pesticides The understanding of heavy toxic pesticides is not deep enough.It is imperative to ban highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides, which is not only the need of domestic people's health, but also the need to comply with the international trend. Many international conventions explicitly require strict control over the production and use of highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides. It can be said that today's agricultural product market is also a global market, always facing the competition of the international market. Moreover, many foreign high-quality agricultural products have come to us now. If we lag behind foreign products in pesticide residues, we may lose even the "competition at home".Good law is the premise of good governance. After the legislation stipulates that highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides are prohibited for vegetables, melons and fruits, how to really manage the use of highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides must also rely on supervision. First, strictly manage pesticides from the source. On the one hand, strictly control and prohibit the production of highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides, and severely punish the illegal production and operation of using highly toxic and highly toxic pesticides according to law; On the other hand, we will implement fixed-point operation of highly toxic and restricted pesticides, counter sales, adult real-name purchase, and prohibit online sales and purchase of highly toxic pesticides.In addition, it is necessary to improve the access threshold of agricultural products in the farmers' market, increase the pesticide residue detection of vegetables, melons and fruits, especially the pesticide residue detection of agricultural products in the small farmers' market, and ensure that the vegetables, melons and fruits flowing into the public table are qualified; Furthermore, we should straighten out the management system, clarify the division of labor, form a joint force, and strictly control the use of highly toxic pesticides.Of course, in addition to strict law enforcement and severe punishment for those who use excessive pesticides in violation of regulations, the government must also introduce relevant policies to support more new ecological and biological pesticides to speed up the pace of substitution, and at the same time provide subsidies to farmers to make them affordable and willing to use low-toxicity and low-residue pesticides. Such efforts should help to truly safeguard the safety of the public.

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2014-11-24

In 2014, China's pesticide industry faced new opportunities and challenges. From the current situation and the reality of the development of the pesticide industry, there are seven key words that affect and lead the new changes and new directions of the pesticide industry in 2014. As enterprises with backward technology and substandard environmental protection gradually withdraw from the glyphosate industry, the concentration will continue to increase, which is conducive to changing the persistent disease of "many, small and scattered" in China's glyphosate industry for several years.The year of 2014 is a year full of vitality for the development of China's pesticide industry, and also an important year for moderate adjustment. In 2014, China's pesticide industry faced new opportunities and challenges. From the current situation and the reality of the development of the pesticide industry, there are seven key words that affect and lead the new changes and new directions of the pesticide industry in 2014.Environmental protection verification: "new threshold" promotes the sound development of the industryThe once mighty glyphosate environmental protection verification has finally come to a conclusion recently. On June 13, the Ministry of Environmental Protection released the Announcement of the First Batch of Glyphosate (glyphosate) Production Enterprises Meeting the Requirements of Environmental Protection Verification on its official website, pointing out that the problems found in the above links were verified one by one through self-inspection by enterprises, recommendation by industry associations, preliminary review by provincial environmental protection departments, expert data review, and on-site inspection by the supervision center. Zhenjiang Jiangnan Chemical Co., Ltd., Nantong Jiangshan Pesticide Chemical Co., Ltd Four glyphosate (glyphosate) production enterprises of Jiangsu Youshi Chemical Co., Ltd. and Hubei Taisheng Chemical Co., Ltd. basically meet the requirements of this environmental protection inspection.Some market participants are optimistic that the environmental protection inspection will force small and medium-sized enterprises out. As for the policy dividends that the enterprises that have passed the environmental protection verification will receive, some business people said that they are not clear at present and have not received the relevant notice. But to be sure, environmental protection verification is to establish a game rule and set a "new threshold" for the glyphosate industry, which is conducive to promoting the healthy development of the industry.Sun Shubao, president of China Pesticide Industry Association, said that this environmental protection inspection is the first time in China's pesticide industry, and it will bring positive and far-reaching impact on the development of the industry. As enterprises with backward technology and substandard environmental protection gradually withdraw from the glyphosate industry, the concentration will continue to increase, which is conducive to changing the persistent disease of "many, small and scattered" in China's glyphosate industry for several years.Centralized distribution of pesticides: standardize the market from the sourceIn May 2012, Changshu, Jiangsu Province, began to start the construction of pesticide centralized distribution system. Over the past two years, it has been gradually improved and achieved initial results. It has not only integrated more than 250 uneven pesticide distribution points in the city into 66 centralized distribution points of pesticides, but also undertook the unified procurement of pesticides in the city. 100000 farmers in the city will achieve "zero price difference" in purchasing agricultural drugs. The local supply and marketing cooperatives, agricultural means companies and agricultural departments guide farmers to use drugs safely, which not only reduces the cost of drug use for farmers, but also greatly reduces the production accidents of pesticide use, and is praised by farmers as "a practical project benefiting farmers and the people".The specific method is that Changshu Agricultural Means Company is responsible for the distribution of pesticides uniformly purchased by the government to the distribution stations identified by the towns. Farmers can directly purchase affordable pesticides at the distribution stations in the towns with their ID cards or telephone numbers. For large farmers and cooperative farms with large scale operation area, strong economic strength and large pesticide consumption, the drugs can be directly delivered to the households from the distribution stations in the towns, At the same time, the distribution station provides corresponding pesticide use methods and technical guidance. The pesticide price is uniformly sold at zero price difference according to the bidding or negotiation price of government procurement. The upper limit of farmers' purchase of drugs is set according to the planting varieties and the number of mu of farmland. The part exceeding the limit will not be provided with government retail price pesticides.Dai Zheng, the person in charge of Caojiaqiao Pesticide Centralized Distribution Center of Changshu Agricultural Means Company, Jiangsu Province, said that carrying out the centralized distribution of pesticides has really brought great changes in the local area. On the one hand, it has established the price advantage and brand advantage of products; On the other hand, it also purifies the market, ensures the quality and safety of agricultural products and reduces the burden of the people. In the future, it is required to achieve new breakthroughs and changes in technical services and work standards, truly guide farmers to use drugs scientifically and reasonably, and avoid the occurrence of overuse and drug abuse."Water test" e-commerce: realize enterprise networking and informatizationThe traditional pesticide sales model is no longer suitable for the current trade environment. Relying on human promotion, it faces the embarrassing situation of high cost, high expense, narrow promotion area and low sales volume; To display, promote and publicize our products all the year round in the e-commerce marketing mode, and change the offline transaction mode to online transaction, which can not only reduce the cost of personnel promotion, but also quickly improve the popularity of enterprises. Therefore, with the rapid development of e-commerce, the exploration and practice of e-commerce marketing model in the pesticide industry is expected to become a new trend of industry development.On April 23, the e-commerce platform established by Jiangsu Longdeng Chemical Co., Ltd. was officially launched. Some insiders believe that the planning and operation of the pesticide e-commerce platform needs to make a big contribution from rapid response, scale operation, brand strategy, collaborative research and development, market expansion, and whole-process service. First of all, build the e-commerce logistics system of pesticide enterprises and dredge the logistics channels; Secondly, build the network marketing system of pesticide enterprises to meet the personalized needs of the market; Build a new network management system for pesticide enterprises to enhance their comprehensive competitiveness.Zheng Jingmin, Chairman of Shaanxi Nongxin Investment Holding Co., Ltd., said that the establishment of an electronic business platform and a direct network with consumers by pesticide enterprises is like a bridge between product sales and consumers, and a shortcut between suppliers and enterprise producers. Faced with more opportunities and challenges, China's pesticide enterprises can only speed up the construction of network electronic system and establish e-commerce to promote the business model, so as to enable enterprises to go out of the traditional industry and business pattern and realize the development of enterprise networking, electronic and information.Safe and scientific drug use: be brave to bear social responsibilityPesticides play an irreplaceable role in ensuring agricultural production safety, effective supply of agricultural products and promoting farmers' income. With the improvement of people's awareness of the quality and safety of agricultural products and environmental protection, how to ensure“"Safety on the tip of the tongue", the implementation of the correct management of pesticides and the safe and scientific use of pesticides are increasingly receiving widespread attention from the society. On April 17, the training conference on the safe and scientific use of pesticides and the launching ceremony for the establishment of the safe and scientific use of pesticides committee sponsored by the China Pesticide Industry Association were held in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Leaders, experts and enterprise representatives from the competent departments of the industry agreed that the necessity and urgency of establishing the committee was very important, and everyone should work together to shoulder the social responsibility of safe and scientific use of pesticides.Shao Zhenrun, Director of the Pesticide and Pharmaceutical Machinery Division of the National Agrotechnical Extension Service Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that farmer training is an important way to do a good job in the management of the safe use of pesticides, and is also an effective method. The training on the safe use of pesticides should be strengthened. At the same time, farmer training is also a systematic project, which requires the active cooperation and support of all relevant departments. The government should increase the investment in farmers' training, and pesticide enterprises should also actively participate in, give full play to their technical advantages, integrate new products and new technologies into the safe use and management of pesticides, and help more farmers improve the level of scientific drug use.Crop solutions: enterprises transfer to overall technical servicesIn the pesticide industry, the proposal, implementation and future of crop solutions have become leading concepts and hot topics in the industry. It is understood that crop solutions have long been proposed by multinational pesticide companies. In recent years, the growing maturity of crop solutions will become an inevitable trend in the future development of the agricultural materials industry. However, at present, domestic enterprises still lack understanding of crop solutions, and there is no unified definition in the industry. Many enterprises claim that the solution is actually "old wine in a new pot", and there are still many problems in the promotion and development.Gu Baogen, deputy director of the Pesticide Control Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that the proposal of crop solutions is a change in the thinking and methods of industry practitioners, and truly integrates the use of pesticides into agricultural production. Under the new situation, the management mode of pesticide enterprises has changed greatly, from selling products to providing overall technical services, and finally to achieve innovation, win-win and sustainable development.Merger and reorganization: optimize industry and industrial structureIn the future, China's pesticide industry will usher in a major development opportunity, and merger and reorganization, industrial upgrading, innovation and development will undoubtedly be the key words. The China Pesticide Industry Association will release information to the public: it will jointly build an information exchange platform for the merger and reorganization of pesticide enterprises with the provincial (municipal) pesticide associations, and will wholeheartedly serve the enterprises according to their wishes and requirements.At present, domestic enterprises are increasingly mature and powerful, industry leaders and listed companies are strong, and play a leading role in mergers and acquisitions. Mergers and acquisitions of small and medium-sized enterprises in the industry promote the sustained and rapid development and integration of the industry.Pan Aihua, Deputy Director of the Department of Raw Materials Industry of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said that today, mergers and reorganization still take place. The stronger is the theme of the development of modern pesticides. In the process of industrial integration, the government management departments should provide policy support, improve the policy system to promote enterprise merger and reorganization, establish an effective exit mechanism, and pave the way for the merger and reorganization of pesticide enterprises.Pesticide management: leading enterprises to develop with integrity, innovation and cooperationAccording to Shan Weili, director of the Pharmaceutical Administration Division of the Pesticide Control Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture, the revision of the new Pesticide Management Regulations has entered the stage of deliberation by the State Council. Next, improving and revising the supporting articles of association will become a key work of pesticide registration, requiring extensive participation of pesticide producers and users. Registration publicity is an inevitable requirement of information disclosure, and also an effective measure to ensure the scientific and accurate results of administrative examination and approval.Sui Pengfei, director of the Pesticide Control Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that the healthy development of the pesticide industry requires a sense of responsibility, which requires our pesticide management work to be more practical. For the close action, first, we need to unswervingly promote the management reform of pesticide registration; The second is to strengthen post-registration management and protect the vital interests of managers, producers, operators and consumers; The third is to comprehensively promote the construction of the standard system focusing on pesticide residues for agriculture and environmental safety; Fourth, pesticide management should have a sense of responsibility and lead pesticide enterprises to develop in good faith, innovation and cooperation.

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2014-10-24

On October 8, Premier Li Keqiang of the State Council presided over the executive meeting of the State Council, revised the list of investment projects approved by the government again, cancelled the approval of 15 categories of projects, including chemical fertilizers, and changed them to the record, and decided to cancel the approval of all overseas investment projects, unless a few other provisions. Industry insiders generally applaud this and believe that the relaxation of investment approval will not have a significant impact on industry investment in the short term, but will help promote the further marketization of the industry and benefit the fertilizer industry in the long run.The approval of 15 types of projects such as chemical fertilizer was cancelled and changed to approval, which is a further relaxation after the approval of chemical fertilizer investment projects was decentralized at the end of last year. According to the Catalogue of Investment Projects Approved by the Government (2013 Version) released by the State Council in December 2013, potash and phosphate fertilizer projects are approved by the provincial government.Tian Youguo, director of the National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center of the Ministry of Agriculture, believes that the cancellation of the project review is ostensibly to liberalize the investment of enterprises in the fertilizer industry, but actually to regulate the development of the industry through marketization and increase the competitive awareness and pressure on enterprises. This policy only liberalizes the approval process, which means to facilitate the preparation process for enterprises to establish projects, and does not mean to encourage project investment. At present, the fertilizer industry has serious overcapacity, and enterprises are very cautious about new projects, but once there are good projects, it is easier to carry out. For powerful enterprises, it is conducive to the smooth progress of the project; For enterprises with uncompetitive projects, facing overcapacity, they will be more cautious.Liu Shulan, honorary president of the China Nitrogenous Fertilizer Industry Association, also believes that the cancellation of the approval of chemical fertilizer for filing by the state is a measure to promote the marketization of the industry, which is conducive to the rational allocation of resources, and enterprises can make reasonable investment according to market demand. In the past, the reason for strict supervision was mainly to prevent a swarm of projects and avoid repeated construction. For the nitrogen fertilizer industry, the cancellation of fertilizer approval will not have much impact. At present, the nitrogen fertilizer industry has a serious overcapacity, and existing projects are losing money. If the new project is launched, it will not only aggravate the overcapacity, but also not make money, so smart enterprises will not easily invest.Qi Zhaoying, Executive Deputy Secretary-General of the Potash (Fertilizer) Industry Branch of the China Inorganic Salt Industry Association, believes that the relaxation of the approval process should be good for the investment in the potash industry, but also reminds enterprises to pay more attention to market factors. She said that in the context of government simplification and decentralization, enterprises will actively and accurately consider market factors when installing new devices, rather than passively wait for policy support.Chen Hongkun, vice president of Shandong Jinzhengda Group, believes that loose policy will help to fully push the industry to the market. From the perspective of enterprises, the government is more expected to do a good job of supervision and prevention from law-abiding, environmental protection, safety and other aspects, and to control the normal operation and operation of enterprises less, so as to make the operation efficiency of enterprises higher.Ruan Guozhu, director of the marketing department of Guizhou Kaiping Chemical Fertilizer Co., Ltd., said that the relaxation of the approval process is a reflection of the decentralization of government power, and is also what enterprises want to see, which is conducive to the development of the chemical fertilizer industry. For phosphate fertilizer enterprises, in the past, they had resources but could not approve projects, and could not successfully carry out deep and fine processing of phosphate rock, while some projects supported by the government often became "chicken ribs". Now the lower threshold is more conducive to full market competition, allowing enterprises to dominate the market, allowing enterprises with resource advantages to develop faster, and promoting the overall development of the industry through technology and market competition.The cancellation of fertilizer approval can be said that enterprises and industries have been looking forward to it. From the adjustment of the proportion of project investment capital in 2009 to the decentralization of project approval authority in 2013, to the change of project approval to approval this year and the cancellation of approval of overseas investment projects all reflect the determination and strength of the government to streamline administration and delegate power, which will have long-term benefits for the marketization of the fertilizer industry. It can be said that promoting the marketization of the fertilizer industry has become a trend. (Zhang Gaoke and Zhang Fan)(Source: China Agrochemical Network)

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2014-10-16

October 14 is the World Standards Day. The theme of this year's World Standards Day is "standards create a fair competition environment". On October 10, 2014, on the eve of the "World Standards Day", the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine and the National Standards Commission approved and issued 33 national standards, involving health and safety, ecological environment, economic development, social management and other aspects.The series of test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticides includes 21 national standards, which will further improve the scientific level of environmental risk assessment and safety management of pesticides in China, and reduce the potential harm of pesticides to the ecological environment from the source.No.National standard numberNational standard nameImplementation date1GB/T 31270.1-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 1: Soil degradation test2015-03-112GB/T 31270.2-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 2: Hydrolysis test2015-03-113GB/T 31270.3-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 3: Photolysis test2015-03-114GB/T 31270.4-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 4: Soil adsorption/desorption test2015-03-115GB/T 31270.5-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 5: Soil leaching test2015-03-116GB/T 31270.6-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 6: Volatility test2015-03-117GB/T 31270.7-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 7: Bioconcentration test2015-03-118GB/T 31270.8-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 8: Water-sediment system degradation test2015-03-119GB/T 31270.9-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 9: Acute toxicity test of birds2015-03-1110GB/T 31270.10-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 10: bee acute toxicity test2015-03-1111GB/T 31270.11-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 11: Acute toxicity test of silkworm2015-03-1112GB/T 31270.12-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 12: Acute toxicity test of fish2015-03-1113GB/T 31270.13-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 13:? Quasi-acute activity inhibition test2015-03-1114GB/T 31270.14-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 14: Algal growth inhibition test2015-03-1115GB/T 31270.15-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 15: Acute toxicity test of earthworm2015-03-1116GB/T 31270.16-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 16: Soil microbial toxicity test2015-03-1117GB/T 31270.17-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 17: Acute toxicity test of natural enemy Trichogramma2015-03-1118GB/T 31270.18-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 18: Acute toxicity test of natural enemy amphibians2015-03-1119GB/T 31270.19-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 19: Non-target plant influence experiment2015-03-1120GB/T 31270.20-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 20: Short-term feeding toxicity test for domestic animals2015-03-1121GB/T 31270.21-2014Test criteria for environmental safety assessment of chemical pesticidesPart 21: Biological toxicity test of large crustaceans2015-03-11 (Transferred from China Pesticide Industry Network)

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2014-09-15

China uses a large amount of fertilizer, resulting in waste of resources and environmental damage. In the view of domestic and foreign experts, it is impossible and unscientific to give up chemical fertilizers, but China must improve the use efficiency of chemical fertilizers.At the "IFA (China) Fertilizer Sustainable Development Management Forum" held from September 16 to 17, Zhang Fushuo, a professor of China Agricultural University [Weibo], commented on the First Financial and Economic Daily that China's food production mainly depends on high input (of fertilizer and other products), which is not good for the environment, and this food production mode is not sustainable.China consumes more than 1/3 of global fertilizerChina is a large country in fertilizer production and consumption, with the total output and consumption of fertilizer accounting for more than 1/3 of the world. Excessive application of chemical fertilizer has become the curse of Chinese agriculture.Heavy use of chemical fertilizers will lead to a series of negative consequences. Long Wen, deputy director of the Agricultural Means Bureau of the All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperation, believes that the excessive use of chemical fertilizers not only wastes non-renewable energy and resources such as coal and phosphate rock, but also increases the domestic dependence on sulfur and potassium. In addition, the increase of greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural sources and river pollution.In 2010, the Ministry of Environmental Protection issued the Bulletin of the First National Pollution Source Survey. If the proportion of pollution sources is measured by COD (chemical oxygen demand) emissions, agriculture will surpass industry as a major pollution source.Zhang Lijun, then deputy minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, said that at present, the pollution problem of agricultural sources in China is relatively seriousZhang Fushuo said, for example, that a large amount of agricultural fertilization led to a 0.5 unit drop in the PH value of farmland nationwide, and the soil was generally acidified. Acidification, first of all, causes poor crop growth. Secondly, it causes the occurrence of diseases and pests, heavy metals exceeding the standard, and food safety problems.Ineffective use is the root causeThe root cause of the large amount of fertilizer is the low use efficiency.The rice yield per unit area in China is similar to that in Japan, but the amount of nitrogen fertilizer used is three times that in Japan and twice that in South Korea. In addition to the poor soil conditions, the more important is the unreasonable use of fertilizer.Gao Xiangzhao, director of the water-saving department of the National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center, believes that China's fertilizer consumption is more than that of other countries, which is related to the planting system. Due to the high multiple cropping index of many cash crops in China, the amount of fertilizer is directly large. In addition, the lack of water resources, especially the mismatch between water resources and agricultural production, has also caused a large waste of fertilizer.For example, in recent years, China's main grain production areas are shifting from the south to the north. And the north is the area with serious shortage of water resources. What's more, in agricultural production, the mutual matching of water and nutrients is rarely considered. Unreasonable water use, especially flood irrigation, has resulted in a large amount of fertilizer waste.It is imperative to improve the efficiency of fertilizer use, whether from the perspective of agriculture, economy or environmental protection.In addition to chemical fertilizers, the growth rate of traditional agricultural inputs such as irrigation, plastic film and pesticides in China's agriculture is also much faster than the growth rate of grain production.Zhang Fushuo believes that China's food is produced entirely on the premise of high investment and no special benefits to the environment. This food production mode is unsustainable.Long Wen suggested that we should further deepen the work of soil testing formula, accelerate the change of farmers' extensive fertilization concept, and improve farmers' scientific fertilization level. "The government should establish a sound policy support system and technological innovation system, form a sustainable new system for the production, marketing and use of fertilizer, and promote the nationwide precision service of agricultural materials."The International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA) is developing a nutrient management project. Charlotte Hebebrand, the secretary-general of the International Fertilizer Industry Association (IFA), described how to teach farmers how to use the right nutrients at the right time and in the right proportion. Because, in different agricultural areas, the specific characteristics of crops and soil are different. This is of great significance in China, which has many small farmers."How to effectively and scientifically manage water and fertilizer comprehensively should be the key to further improve fertilizer utilization in China," Gao Xiangzhao said.(Sina Agriculture)

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2014-09-15

Viewpoint collision: Is there any living space for traditional dealers?Author: Wu YanDuring the Spring Festival, the author visited the countryside and deeply felt the urgency of rural land circulation. Taking a small village adjacent to the Yangtze River in Anhui Province as an example, hundreds of acres of cultivated land are now only cultivated by five 60-year-old farmers, a considerable number of which are abandoned. According to local people, a large planter will enter the village after the year and contract the farmland of the village at a price of 100 yuan per mu. At present, the concentration of cultivated land is irresistible, and the agricultural production mode is undergoing great changes. Under the new situation, does the traditional distributor still have room for survival?Party A's dealers should follow the trendAs far as the industrial chain is concerned, the agricultural materials dealer is a channel connecting industry and agriculture. The agricultural production mode has changed, and the role of the agricultural materials dealer must also be adjusted. If the agricultural production model of one household corresponds to a large number of agricultural materials dealers that are spread all over the villages and towns, then the scale of agriculture corresponds to comprehensive service providers that provide products, technology, management, etc.On the one hand, based on the increasing concentration of arable land and the continuous transfer of rural labor, the number of agricultural production entities will be significantly reduced in the future. For agricultural materials dealers, this also means the shrinking of service objects. Therefore, it can be predicted that in the future, some dealers who do not adapt to the new situation and lack of new ideas will withdraw from the stage of agricultural means circulation.On the one hand, the new agricultural production situation is breeding new development opportunities. Among them, agricultural socialized service organizations are particularly eye-catching. Taking rice as an example, socialized services can cover the whole process from seedling cultivation to machine farming, machine transplanting, machine defense and machine harvest. For agricultural means dealers, if a similar service organization is established, it can not only implant product sales into it, but also obtain value-added benefits through services.In a word, in the general situation of the rapid promotion of agricultural intensification, the scale of agricultural materials dealers will be reduced, and the business model will be transformed to service providers. It will be difficult to have a foothold in the future market simply relying on selling products.Party B will never changeNo matter how the organizational form of agricultural production will change in the future, the group of agricultural materials dealers will not disappear. As a social division of labor, they do not conflict with each other in terms of products, services or both. In other words, with the rise of large-scale agriculture, it can be predicted that some traditional dealers will transform to service providers, while others will continue to play the role of distributors of agricultural products.The transportation, storage and distribution of fertilizer products also need professional enterprises to operate, which is difficult to replace by ordinary agricultural technology service providers. Therefore, from the perspective of the industrial chain, the future agricultural materials dealers will not only take charge of marketing and services, but on the contrary, the distributors will be more professional, and the division of service and circulation will be more detailed. Of course, due to the progress of science and technology, the form and format of distribution of agricultural materials may change. For example, the emerging e-commerce is worthy of attention.Based on this, the transformation path of agricultural means distributors is not limited to service. It is a choice to be professional agricultural means distributors to improve circulation efficiency and service quality through intensive cultivation network and brand operation.(Sina Agriculture)

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