The 2014 Pesticide Industry Economic Operation Analysis Conference and the 2014 Pesticide Industry Ranking Conference were held in Hefei recently. Professor Zhang Yibin of Shanghai Pesticide Research Institute focused on the impact of foreign pesticide market characteristics on China's pesticide industry.

Zhang Yibin first made a detailed comparison between the world pesticide market and China's market pattern: in the past 10 years, the world pesticide market has developed in a spiral pattern, but it has increased continuously in the past 4 years, while China's pesticide production has also increased continuously in the same period, but the growth rate has gradually decreased; From the perspective of major crops in the world, the major pesticide market is fruit trees and vegetables, followed by soybeans, corn, rice, cotton, rape, sugar cane, sugar beet, etc., while the major pesticide market in China is rice, followed by fruit trees and vegetables, corn, cotton, soybeans, rape, sugar cane, etc; From the perspective of the growth of pesticide application market, from 2009 to 2013, the average annual growth rate of China's pesticide application market ranked eighth in the world, and the market potential cannot be underestimated.

When talking about the impact of varieties developed by foreign pesticide companies on China's pesticide market, Zhang Yibin pointed out that the development of China's pesticide industry cannot be separated from the leadership of foreign companies, including the treatment of three wastes and the importance of the environment, technological progress, and formulation development. However, foreign pesticides also have certain negative effects on China. For example, the vast majority of varieties in the structure are foreign developed varieties. At present, among the varieties used in China, foreign non-patented and old varieties are dominant, so China can not be called "pesticide power". In addition, the increase in foreign procurement of Chinese pesticide technical drugs and intermediates has actually caused certain pressure on China's environment, and the export of high-profit agricultural pharmaceutical products to China has virtually squeezed China's pesticide market.

So how should we deal with the impact of foreign pesticides on China? Zhang Yibin put forward several countermeasures: first, to further improve China's R&D level, second, to improve the industrial development capacity, third, to change the chaotic state in sales, fourth, to form China's own "fist products", fifth, to clarify the division of labor, and to be consistent with the outside world, sixth, to focus on improving the quality of service and personnel. Only in this way can China truly realize the transformation from "pesticide power" to "pesticide power". (Sichuan Rural Daily)