Rules on nomenclature for agricultural botanical varieties are issued to regulate China’s corporeal seed market order The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) has published today the Rules on Nomenclature for Agricultural Botanical Varieties (MOA Order No 2-2012) in order to strengthen the naming management and maintain a sound market order for China’s corporeal seeds. The regulation is going to come into effect from 15 April 2012.

China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) lately issued the Chinese 12th Five-Year Plan on Pesticides Development, suggesting to foster two to three large-scale pesticide manufacturing enterprises with international competitive strength and capable to produce over RMB 10 billion worth sales during the period of 2011-2015.

From Agropages.com news on 19 January, the ICAMA registration report published by Agropages said totally 148 active ingredients (AI) were granted ICAMA registrations in 2011, among which 56 were the first time to get approvals.

2012 will see an increase of 4.37% in demand for pesticides in domestic Chinese market.  

China withdraws production certificate on 9 pesticides; 22 highly toxic pesticide products to be phased out from the Chinese market

Chinese pesticides import and export companies should apply for the release permit of their products based on the goods ID and corresponding product name in the new inventory.