In mid-March 2016, the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of
Agriculture (ICAMA) announced that with the launch of spring ploughing, China’s
pesticide market began to recover in Feb. 2016 according to its monitoring.
Sales volume in both wholesale and retail increased, supply was sufficient and
market prices were quite stable.
- Wholesale
In Feb. 2016, the total sales volume of pesticide increased by 27.1% month on
month. Specifically, that of herbicides soared by 70.8%, that of fungicides
increased slight while that of insecticides reduced by 23.7% month on month.
As for wholesale prices, insecticides and herbicides prices up slightly while fungicide prices dropped a little month on month and the fluctuation ranges
were within 0.1%. In particular, wholesale prices of pymetrozine, mancozeb,
glyphosate and paraquat presented downward trends while those of abamectin,
triazophos, chlorothalonil, thiophanate-methyl and quizalofop-P-ethyl climbed
up.
- Inventory
Inventory of insecticides was sufficient, increasing by 34.6%, that of
fungicides reduced by 9.8% and that of herbicides increased by 6.1% month on
month in Feb. 2016.
- Retail
In Feb. 2016, sales volume of pesticides increased by 12.1% month on month. Out
of these, sales volume of insecticides grew significantly by 25.4% and that of
fungicides and herbicides increased by 4.9% and 6.1% respectively.
Regarding the retail prices, that of insecticides dropped by about 0.5% and
that of fungicides and herbicides both increased slightly by about 0.1% month
on month. To be more specific, prices of insecticide products such as
abamectin, imidacloprid and bifenthrin fell while prices of fungicides like
difenoconazole and chlorothalonil and herbicides like clethodim increased.
This report comes from Insecticides China News 1603, CCM
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