In order to encourage scientific and technological innovation of domestic enterprises and accelerate the introduction of new pesticide products, the re-registration requirements of pesticide products may be increased. This is undoubtedly a challenge for domestic enterprises with traditional pesticides as the leading products. This is the information that the reporter got from the fifth "Hansheng Cup" agrochemical product manager (crop manager) exchange meeting on September 25.

According to Ji Ying, chief agronomist of the Pesticide Control Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture, pesticide management agencies in developed countries have complete pesticide registration and re-evaluation systems. A product will be re-evaluated in 10-15 years to determine whether it is harmful to the environment and health, and whether its resistance increases. The registration regulations clearly stipulate that the re-registration requirements are more stringent after 15 years. The input-output ratio, remaining market share and security guarantee are all factors that need to be carefully considered when enterprises re-register products, which urges enterprises to spend more energy on new product development. At present, China has no relevant system for this, resulting in many products and registration certificates of domestic enterprises, but the level is not high. There are many old products and few new products, especially fewer products with independent intellectual property rights. In order to speed up the elimination of old products and promote the birth of new products, we have set up a new Pesticide Re-registration Evaluation Office this year. We hope that enterprises can get some inspiration from it and take some measures in the future.

Although the re-registration requirements of traditional pesticides may be improved, traditional pesticides are still the leading products in the market, and there is still a large market space in the future. Yuan Huizhu, a researcher at the Institute of Plant Protection of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, believes that since 2009, there have been more than 30 mergers and acquisitions involving pesticides among major international companies. From the mergers and acquisitions, it can be seen that while traditional large companies focus on biological fungicides, natural enemies and other new pesticides, some traditional pesticides, such as dimethoate, carbaryl, monocrotophos, also receive attention, which shows that old products still have their market position and cannot be given up easily.

It is understood that traditional pesticides are still the pillar products of most domestic enterprises at this stage, and the improvement of pesticide re-registration requirements is undoubtedly a new challenge for domestic enterprises. Luo Laichen, manager of marketing department of Jilin Bada Pesticide Co., Ltd., said that the improvement of pesticide re-registration requirements is conducive to the development of domestic pesticide industry. Enterprises have also been investing a lot of energy in scientific research to develop new products. However, the development of new products has certain difficulties. Even if relevant policies are issued in the future and the re-registration requirements are improved, enterprises should register old products in strict accordance with the policies. (Source: China Pesticide Network)