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Afidopyropen is to be launched onto the Chinese market in 2019. Dr. Lu Yuejian, Senior Manager from the Product R&D Department of BASF Greater China made detailed introduction about it.
On 20 July 2018, BASF held a ceremony for the launch of its new wheat seed coating called Heyue in Jinan City, Shandong Province. This is another big movement after the AgCelence corn seed health seminar held by BASF.
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.
On 26 August, 2015, BASF showed its success in trying out the biodegradable agricultural film in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, during the Xinjiang Ecological Agricultural Development Summit held in Urumqi. Meanwhile, it announced the on-going promotion of the sustainable development of ecological agriculture in Xinjiang.
On 11 April, 2015, the National Agri-Tech Extension Service Center (NATESC) and BASF held a Seltima technical training class regarding the healthy and green production increases for crops. Accordingly, the training class was divided into 2 parts, a summing-up meeting on the cropscience pilot project for corn high-yield creation and an initiation meeting on the Seltima pilot project for the healthy and green production increases for rice,
According to a report by Changchun Daily, the biodegradable material industry in Changchun has been attracting more and more attention and has been successfully drawing top enterprises of PLA and its downstream products in the domestic market like Zhejiang Hisun Chemical Co., Ltd.
As revealed by Anhui Huaheng Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (Huaheng Biotechnology) recently, it signed an intention book with BASF on 10 Nov., 2014 that it plans to newly build new production devices of L-alanine by fermentation method in Hefei, Anhui Province, through join stock or other means. It will try to accomplish the agreement by Q2 2015.
On 25 Sept., 2014, BASF held demonstrations for its AgCelence® in over 20 regions in China, including Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Guangdong provinces. It called on local farmers to know about the AgCelence® series of fungicides.