Guangzhou, Guangdong -- (SBWIRE) -- 09/21/2011 -- Market share of jingangmycin, which is an antibiotics fungicide and has dominated domestic rice sheath blight control market for almost 30 years, has been gradually shrinking in Chinese main rice planting areas in recent years mainly due to its decreasing control effect and thinner profits, as well as the competition from other products, according to CCM’s September Issue of Fungicides China News.

With good control effect on rice sheath blight in the early stage of application, jingangmycin become popular among domestic producers since 1970s. The output of jingangmycin (calculated by 5% AS, similarly hereinafter) had increased in China over the last few decades, especially in the late 1980s.

However, the decreasing control effect on rice sheath blight is one of the key factors leading to the market shrinkage of jingangmycin. After several decades of successive use, the control effect of jingangmycin 5% AS against rice sheath blight has been reduced from about 90% to 65%.

Moreover, the persistent period of jingangmycin has also been shortened by around 65% to 7 days from original 20 days. Last but not least, many domestic dealers and retailers are reluctant to sell jingangmycin mainly due to the decreasing profit, which has hindered the development of jingangmycin accordingly.

Actually, some domestic producers of jingangmycin technical have gradually cut back or stopped their production in consideration of the shrinking market. It is estimated that the output of jingangmycin in China will continue to go down to a certain extent in the near future with the gradual reduction of jingangmycin production; the situation of the shrinking market share for this biological fungicide will remain grim.

The following highlights are covered in Fungicides China News:

- Jiangsu Lanfeng has achieved a significant increase in its fungicide business in H1 2011.

- Noposion has achieved a steady performance growth in H1 2011.

- Changqing Agrochemical's fungicide performance was poor in the first half of 2011.

- Jingangmycin's market share has been gradually shrinking in Chinese main rice planting areas in recent years.

- Zhejiang Longwan's thiediazole copper will vitalize the market of disease control in the near future.

- Shandong Dacheng will further cement its fosetyl-aluminium production after completing the first stage relocation.

- Sichuan Lomon launched its 20t/a abscisic acid technical production line on 22 Aug. 2011.

- Shaanxi Meibang's fenoxanil 20% WP is about to be on the market of Guangdong Province.

- Hunan Haili plans to expand its thiophanate-methyl technical production to 5,000t/a by the end of 2012.

- Demand for trimethyl orthoformate from the domestic and overseas market will keep rising in the field of pesticides in the near future.

- Ethylenediamine's capacity in China has witnessed jump in the past months of 2011.

- The application of chemical pesticides witnesses decline in China.

- Fungicides to control rice blast sell well recently in main middle and late rice planting areas.

- Price of azoxystrobin technical has plummeted in the domestic market since 2008.

- Southern rice black streaked dwarf continues spreading in the southern rice planting areas recently.

- Cotton verticillium wilt has stepped into a high occurrence period especially in most cotton planting areas of Jiangsu, Anhui and Hebei.

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