The
predicted occurrence of wheat head blight in China will elevate the need for
effective fungicides. The current most popular fungicide, carbendazim, is
losing effectiveness, due to a long-term overuse. Hence, the new star fungicide
is likely to be phenamacril, which is marked by highly effective reduce of
wheat head blight.
Source: Bing
The
Jiangsu Protection Station has predicted the extreme occurrence of Wheat Head
Blight in several regions of China, especially in the regions along the Huai
River, in Jiangsu and Zhejiang province, as well as Shanghai. As a result, the
demand for fungicides will elevate in this year.
The
estimated affected area by this disease will be 6.67 million ha in 2017,
According
to market intelligence firm CCM, a special role will be giving to the fungicide phenamacril,
which was developed and patented by the Jiangsu Pesticide Research Institue in
China. This fungicide is one of the most popular among Chinese farmers and is
known to be highly effective against wheat head blight.
The
wheat head blight already showed heavy occurrence in 2016 in China, which has
increased the attention and demand of crop protection departments among China
significantly. Now, with the prediction of continuing occurrence of this
disease, the demand will inevitably boost even more and open huge opportunities
for manufacturers and traders.
What’s
more, the Jiangsu Pesticide Research Institute has already increased
investments in this promising fungicide. The core improvement areas contain
whereby the enhancement of the production process, which involves lower the
production costs and secures the supply of raw materials. Furthermore, the
production capacity is going to be increased by about 850 tonnes per year top a
capacity of 1,000 tonnes per year in total.
The
occurrence of wheat head blight will affect areas in China, like the Jiangsu
Province, for the seventh year in a consecutive row, becoming a serious
affecting factor for the important wheat production. To be more specific, since
the year 2010, wheat head blight has been striking Jiangsu Province almost
every year, except for a comparable slight occurrence in 2011. However, it was
quite serious in 2010 and 2012. 2016 was remaining an affected year for the
disease and it has even caused a wider occurrence area, which will continue in
2017.
CCM
sees a huge opportunity for doing business with phenamacril. This is
because currently there are only a couple of pesticides against wheat head
blight on the market so far. Particularly, single and mixed formulations of carbendazim, thiophanate-methyl, triadimefon and thiram
accounted for over 85% of the total registrations.
Notably,
wheat head blight’s resistance to carbendazim, the current most popular
fungicide, has increased due to the long-term, continuous and only use in
recent years. Thus, a new fungicide to replace and reduce the use of
carbendazim is in great need. Despite various pesticides for wheat head blight
in the market, mainly benzimidazole, phenamacril, prochloraz and
triazole fungicides, phenamacril stands out because of its good
efficacy, significantly low toxins and improvement in crop quality and output.
Also, phenamacril has effective control over rice bakanae disease.
Wheat head blight
Wheat
head blight, or fusarium head blight, is a fungal disease of cereal crops that
affects kernel development. The most important cause of FHB is the fungus
Fusarium graminearum, which causes significant losses in grain yield and
grain quality, while also resulting in the production of mycotoxins that affect
livestock feed, the baking and milling quality of wheat and the malting and
brewing qualities of malt barley.
Phenamacril
Phenamacril
is a cyanoacrylate fungicide developed by Jiangsu Pesticide Research Institute
in 1998. It has a special chemical structure and stands out among many other
pesticides. Different from the mainstream fungicides is the broad-spectrum, phenamacril focuses
on controlling wheat head blight and rice bakanae disease.
In
2005 and 2006, the company commissioned several institutes to do field trials
on the efficacy of 25% phenamacril SC against wheat head blight. The
institutes include: the Jiangsu Institute for the Control of
Agrochemicals, the Hunan Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, the
Institute of Soil Fertilizer, Hubei Academy of Agricultural Sciences (ISF,
HAAS) and the Institute of Plant Protection, Anhui Academy of Agricultural
Sciences.
About CCM
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