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Vice Premier: China strives to enhance environmental protection
2017-12-13
Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli (C) attends the annual general meeting of China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development in Beijing, capital of China, Dec. 11, 2017. (Xinhua/Wang Ye)BEIJING, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- China will advance green development, st...
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China uses less pesticide in past three years
2017-12-08
China's pesticide use has dropped in the past three years amid a campaign to ensure zero growth in pesticide use by 2020, an official said Monday.Zeng Yande, head of the crop production department of the Ministry of Agriculture, said the ministry tightened market access and punis...
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China to phase out more pesticides in push to improve food safety
2017-12-06
China plans to eliminate another 12 highly toxic pesticides from use within five years, state media reported late on Monday, as the government looks to improve the safety of its farm produce.That comes amid an ongoing campaign to improve the environment and, in particular, tackle...
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Stine Seed signs collaborative agreement with Beijing W. Seed
2017-11-24
On Nov. 8-10 President Donald Trump and representatives from 29 companies partook in the first presidential trade mission to China with the purpose of strengthening political ties and generating billions of dollars of trade deals.Li Zhao, President of China Iowa Group and John Re...
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China’s home-made crop seeds have surpassed foreign competition
2017-11-24
According to the Ministry of Agriculture of the People’s Republic of China (MOA), domestic-made seeds in China have surpassed the foreign competition in market share for the first time.To increase the amount of domestically-produced seeds in the agriculture has been a major goal ...
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Agri-inputs E-commerce: A Long Way Starting from Channel Innovation to Healthy Development
2017-11-09
A few years ago, there was a very popular expression in the agrochemical sector of China that is the agricultural inputs e-commerce (hereinafter referred to as “agri-inputs e-commerce.”) Since 2014, this novel agri-inputs transaction pattern has attracted many enterprises and inv...
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Asian agrochemical market accounts for 40% share of the global market
2017-11-01
Asian pesticide and other agricultural chemicals market is the largest in the world. It currently has about 40% share of the global pesticide and other agricultural chemicals market, according to a report published by Reportlinker.com. The market in Asia grew at a CAGR of around ...
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Pesticide costs up 30%, Chinese formulation enterprises call off winter storage
2017-10-31
November and December is the peak time each year for Chinese enterprises to place orders for the needs of winter storage. Usually, purchasers would have published their purchasing notices one after another during this time of the year. However the winter-storage fair this year is...
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China set to see another bumper year for grain output
2017-10-19
A farmer harvests rice in Mudian Village of Huai'an, east China's Jiangsu Province, Oct. 16, 2017. China's Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) Monday estimated that the country's grain output will surpass 600 million tonnes in 2017, indicating another year of bumper harvest. China's Mi...
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ACE 2017: Giving an overview on China's agrochemicals market
2017-10-11
The AgroChemEx (ACE) in China is a yearly exhibition around the agrochemical industry, organized and carried out by the China Crop Protection Industry Association (CCPIA). The time of the exhibition is 15-17 October 2017. It will be held at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and ...