According to the China Crop Protection Industry Association, the top 100 Chinese agrochemical companies achieved total sales of 109.87 billon CNY in 2016, representing a contrarian increase of 5.81% on previous year of 103.84. The qualifying criterion for the ranking list declined by 5% to a minimum of 303 million CNY.

The combined policy impacts of environmental protection, paraquat prohibition and company M&A were reflected in the positions of the list:

• The top 3 positions were all replaced and revenue of Niutrichem achieved a 3-year high of 4.55 billion CNY(China’s Top 100 Pesticide Companies Sales Flat in 2015);

• Total revenue of the top 10 companies has grown by 10.86% to 31.99 billion CNY;

• Number of companies who reached 1 billion CNY revenue has reduced from 2015 in 40 to 39;

Table 1-Sales of the Top 100 Chinese Agrochemical Enterprise in FY2016

Table 2-Sales of  the Top 50 Chinese Pesticide Formulating Enterprise in FY2016