In accordance with the national strategy “potato as staple food”, in 2015/16, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in total planted 66,667 ha of potatoes, and produced 1.3 million tonnes of potatoes. Now the region has become the largest winter potato production base and one of the 3 largest regions aimed at “potato as staple food” in China. As planned, in the 13^th Five-year Plan period (2016-2020), Guangxi will expand the planting area to over 100,000 ha, and the production to over 2.3 million tonnes.

On 29^th July, 2016, Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA) has released the 7^th batch of pesticide products to be approved this year. In this list, the new ingredient triflumezopyrim, researched and developed by DuPont, will get registered in China for the first time. This product includes 10% triflumezopyrim SC and 94% triflumezopyrim technical. And the registration target of that 10% triflumezopyrim SC is to control the rice planthoppers.

Since the end of July 2016, the third-generation armyworms stroke corn planting regions in northern China. By 5 Aug., the national occurrence area of the pests reached 213,333.3 ha. Though the overall impact was less serious than that during 2012-2015, the pests broke out in Shaanxi Province, Henan Province and Shanxi Province due to improper field management, which lead to high pest volume in corn and rice fields with many weeds.

Source: ICAMA

On 26^th July, 2016, Lier Chemical Co., Ltd. (Lier Chemical) released its first half-yearly report in 2016. In first-half 2016, Lianhetech had revenue of USD138.5 million, up 13.5% over the same period last year and the shareholders’ net profit of listed companies also increased 10.6% YoY to USD14.8 million.

On 26 July, 2016, Lianhe Chemical Technology Co., Ltd. (Lianhe Chemical) released the company’s annual report of H1 2016. In the first half of 2016, the company’s revenue was USD267.4 million, down 7.8% YoY; the net profit attributable to shareholders was USD37.1 million, down 18.6% YoY.

On 27 July, 2016, the Nantong Environmental Monitoring Station announced that Jiangsu Xinnong Chemical Co., Ltd. (Jiangsu Xinnong)’s 10,000 t/a diethyl chlorothiophosphate and byproduct project, and 3,300 t/a chlorpyrifos project would be passed in environmental acceptance check.

According to the news released recently by Shandong Weifang Rainbow Chemical Co., Ltd. (Weifang Rainbow), the company’s subsidiaries in Mexico and Bolivia have been put into operation successively.

On 19th, July, 2016, Sino-Agri Leading Bioscinences Co., Ltd. (Sino-Agri Leading) and Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd. (ISK) jointly research and develop new insecticide Lizuo® (Brand name in Chinese; active ingredient: 46% flonicamid+acetamiprid WDG). The launch meeting was held in Changzhou City, Jiangsu province.

According to statistics by Think Real, in April 2016, China’s export volume and value of glyphosate were 89,245 tonnes and USD187.1 million, which respectively increased by 8.2% and decreased by 9.1% year on year.