In January 2019, the National Agri-Tech Extension Service Center (NATESC) announced that Spodoptera frugiperda was found and confirmed to have stricken Yunnan Province, and have continued to spread in Southwest Yunnan Province.
On 26 January 2019, Limin Chemical Co., Ltd. (Limin Chemical) announced the intention to invest in Xinjiang Xinrong Renhe Holding Investment Limited (Partnership) (Xinjiang Xinrong) as a limited partner. The investment would be USD14.1 million, making up 32.99% of the total.
On Dec. 28, 2018, Lianhetech Co., Ltd. (Lianhetech) issued an announcement, showing that Yancheng Lianke Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd., its wholly-owned subsidiary, has completed the industrial and commercial registration procedures and obtained the "Confirmation of the listing of the use of state-owned construction land use rights" signed with the Bureau of Land and Resources of Xiangshui County, Jiangsu Province.
According to the ICAMA, a total of 4,512 pesticide registrations were approved in China in 2018. All were formal registrations.
On December 18, 2018, Jiande Wynca Plant Protection Co., Ltd. (a subsidiary of Zhejiang Wynca Chemical Group Co., Ltd.), Hangzhou Supply and Marketing Agricultural Development Group Co., Ltd. and Zhejiang Nongfeike Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. (Nongfeike) signed a contract to jointly establish Hangzhou Nongfeike Agricultural and Technology Co., Ltd. (Hangzhou Nongfeike).
In order to promote the exchange of seed treatment technology industry, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade and China Association of Pesticide Development and Application (CAPDA) jointly held the The 5th China International Symposium on Seed Treatment Technology. The meeting time and place will be: Mar. 5, 2019 ,Shanghai New International Expo Centre
Sichuan Guoguang Agrochemical Co., Ltd. (Sichuan Guoguang) released in December 2018 that the company’s three capacity expanding projects invested by funds raised through IPO would be put into production in mid-2019, including 2,100t/a production lines for plant growth regulator technicals, 19,000t/a for the formulations and 6,000t/a for crop nutrition products.
On 20 December, 2018, Huizhou Yinnong Technology Co., Ltd. (Yinnong Technology) held a commissioning ceremony for starting production in its Dark Factory in the presence of business partners and agrochemical distributors.
On 25 December, 2018, Jiangsu Yangnong Chemical Co., Ltd. (Jiangsu Yangnong) signed an agreement on share transfer with Yangzhou Tianping Chemical Co., Ltd. (Tianping Chemical), acquiring remnant shares in two holding subsidiaries from the latter.
On Dec. 15, 2018, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment said in the China Ecological Civilization Forum that a new round of inspection will be fully launched from 2019, and it is planned to use another four years to carry out the second round of central ecological environmental protection inspection work. In the first three years, it was a regular comprehensive inspection, and in the last year, we will start to “look back”.