According to the survey from China ICAMA, both the production and marketing of paddy pesticide are booming in June and the stocks are sufficient to control the pest &disease on paddy.
The production of pesticide has grown by 7.4% and the stocks of pesticide producers have increased by 69.3% month-to-month. The production and stock of insecticide have grown by 9.4% and 118.3% while the production and stock of herbicide have grown by 2.9% and 105.8%. Sales in paddy cropping regions have grown by 21.8%, which contains Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Guangxi. Sales volume of chlorantraniliprole has soared by 366.7%, followed by dichlorvos(82.7%), abamectin(75.1%), pymetrozine(56.3%) and buprofezin(46.4%).
The wholesale and retail were also fairly stable. The average price up 1.4% than last month, which included 2.8% increase of insecticide, 1.2% increase of fungicide and 0.5% decrease of herbicide. Except the increase of pymetrozine and abamectin, prices of chlorantraniliprole, imidacloprid and dichlorvos were flat, while the price of buprofezin has dropped by 11.6%, majorly due to its resistance problem (see ChemLinked news release on 3 Mar 2014).
