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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2016-09-01

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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2016-09-01

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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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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