On 19 March, 2017, the kick-off meeting of 2017 Jiangsu Province Rice “Kuangxin Suite” (宽心装) was co-hosted by Jiangsu Kesheng Group Co., Ltd. (Jiangsu Kesheng), DuPont and Jiangsu Hanweisite Eco-agriculture Co., Ltd. in Jiangsu Province.
Facing a sluggish agrochemical market in 2016, the US based DuPont had an excellent performance in Jiangsu Province: sales volume up by about 20% YoY. Specifically, the insecticide sector grew stably and the fungicide business rose rapidly.
On 29th July, 2016, Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA) has released the 7th 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.
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.
On 22-24 November, 2015, the 31th China Plant Protection Information Exchange & Pesticide and Sprayer Facilities Fair was held in Hefei City, Anhui Province. During this, DuPont unveiled its achievement during the 2015 DuPont Coragen® Environmental Protection Trip.
DuPont Crop Protection Business Department announced on 28 April, 2015 that it had formally launched Verimark®, a new-type insecticide, in China. This product, with brand new mechanism of action, is developed especially for crop care in seedling stage and featured by eco-friendliness, broad spectrum, lasting insecticidal effect, labor-saving and time-saving, etc.
On 14 Nov., 2014, Weiruima®, a new insecticide of DuPont, was introduced in the Rice Production Test and Demonstration Conference of Hefei City (Anhui Province) . Many distributors and large planters from Anhui Province participated in the conference.