On 5 July, 2017, the National Agro-Tech Extension and Service Center (NATESC) updated information that the volume of left first-generation cotton bollworms in most regions of North China, West China and Huanghuai Region is high in 2017; in consideration of the favorable weather conditions in June, it is predicted that second-generation cotton bollworms will strike cotton planting areas lightly this year.

On 12^th June, 2017, Limin Chemical Co., Ltd. (Limin Chemical) issued a notice that the company’s holding subsidiary Hebei Shuangji Chemical Co., Ltd. (Shuangji Chemical) had completed the industry and commerce change of registration procedures of equity transfer, marking the official completion of domestic fungicide  (hereafter refers to mancozeb, maneb, metiram, zineb) industry's largest acquisition. On 6^th June, Shuangji Chemical held the first shareholders meeting after the equity transfer and Limin Chemical chairman, general manager and some shareholders attended the meeting.

Henan HDF Chemical Co., Ltd. (HDF Chemical) released its 2016 full-year financial results.

As reported by Sino-Agri Leading Bioscinences Co., Ltd. (Sino-Agri Leading), the new Pesticide Manual includes 862 pesticides, among which 16 are home-made. In detail, the 16 cover 9 fungicides, 6 insecticides and acaricides as well as 1 herbicide. Moreover, 13 of them are from Sinochem Group.

Recently, Jiangxi Province has suffered from continuous heavy rain, with serious flood in many places, and the loss from crops and husbandry is the largest. As the leading department for agriculture in the province, the Jiangxi Agricultural Department (the Department) used provincial disaster-relief seeds for emergency. By 29 June, 166,000 kg of seeds had been transported to the 16 seriously-stricken areas by flood, which can be used for the reseeding of 6,666.7 ha of fields and may generate economic benefits of USD8.9 million.

Recently, Jiangsu Suli Co., Ltd. (Jiangsu Suli) published its 2016 annual report, according to which the company’s revenue and net profit during the report year were USD195.9 million and USD26.9 million, growing by 20.3% and 56.9% year on year respectively.

China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) finished the acquisition of Syngenta, the Switzerland agrochemical and seed company. On 26 June, 2017, Syngenta held a shareholder conference, on which 16 shareholders who hold 95.11% of the company shares, passed all the proposals popped out by the Board of Directors. Moreover, Ren Jianxin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of ChemChina was selected as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Syngenta.

On 14 June, 2017, the Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China (MOA) released the 2017 list of GMOs (=genetically modified organism) certified for imports into China. In total, 16 products, such as soybean, corn and cotton produced by Monsanto, Bayer, Syngenta and Dow AgroSciences, and used as raw materials for processing, were allowed, effective from 12 June, 2017 to 12 June, 2020.

On 1 June, 2017, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) officially announced that Jingbo Agrochemicals Technology Co., Ltd. (Jingbo Agrochemicals)’s initial public offerings (IPO) was rejected, which was a result of the doubt about the company’s several problems such as the interest of minority shareholders and the realness of the clients.

Source: ICAMA