Source: ICAMA

On 26 December, 2015, Hubei Sanonda Co., Ltd. (Sanonda) announced the approval of the Proposal to Adjust Pesticide Formulations Sales Business, to sign 3 agreements with ADAMA (Beijing) Agriculture Technology Co., Ltd. (ADAMA Beijing), including the Agreement on Sole Agency of Pesticide Formulations, Agreement on Sole Distribution of Pesticide Formulations and Agreement on Staff Transfer and Settlement. After the transaction, Sanonda’s all pesticide formulations will be distributed by ADAMA Beijing, and Sanonda will no longer keep its domestic sales team for pesticide formulations.

On 28 Dec., 2015, Sichuan Lier Crop Science Co., Ltd. (Lier Crop Science, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Lier Chemical Co., Ltd.) held a commencement ceremony for the Company and a new product release conference for “Xianniu^®” in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province. Approximately 150 participants were in the ceremony, including outstanding dealers and guests, together witnessing the important moment.

From 1 January, 2016 to 1 January, 2018, Jiangsu Province will, in 2 phases, up-regulate pollutant discharge fees for waste gases and waste water, in accordance with its new charging standards released recently. Specifically, there are 2 significant features:

By the end of December 2015, Ning Gaoning, having held a post of President in COFCO Corporation (COFCO) for 11 years, had already left office, according to Beijing Business Today. However, no information about his next step was disclosed. Ning Gaoning would be President of Sinochem Group (Sinochem), some media said.

On 18 Dec., 2015, Nippon Kayaku Co., Ltd. (Nippon Kayaku) obtained temporary registrations of 92% chromafenozide TC and 5% chromafenozide SC from the ICAMA, which are for controlling rice leaf roller and rice stem borer. Before this, there hasn’t been any registration of chromafenozide TC or formulations in China.

On 18 December, 2015, the Yanhua branch, Huai’an Environmental Protection Bureau released that Huai’an Guorui Chemical Co., Ltd. (Guorui Chemical)’s 7 pesticide technical projects, including 200 t/a sulcotrione, 800 t/a 95% fluroxypyr-meptyl and 250 t/a 95% clodinafop-propargyl were finished, passing the environmental protection acceptance check.

On 19 Dec., 2015, the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA) approved two temporary registrations applied by DuPont on 95% oxathiapiprolin TC and 10% oxathiapiprolin DOF; both are to expire on the same day of 2016. The formulation is registered to fight against tomato late blight, cucumber downy mildew, etc. The approval marks the first registrations of oxathiapiprolin in China.

In recent reports, Qian Xuhong, academician with the Chinese Academy of Science, stated that Central China Normal University has succeeded in developing a new pesticide under code name Y13149 (a pyrazole amide compound containing diphenyl ether in its formula) which boasts excellent fungicidal efficacy and has already transferred it to Beijing Yoloo Biotechnology Co., Ltd. for industrialization.

As reported on 5 Dec., 2015, BASF has recently got two temporary registrations of its fungicide metrafenone (98% TC and 42% SC) from the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA), which will expire on 5 Dec. of 2016. The 42% metrafenone SC is registered to combat powdery mildew of pea. These are the first registrations of metrafenone TC and formulations in China.