Bio-pesticide, as an industry which should
enjoy a bright future, encounters quite a lot of difficulties in China during
its development. However, a great deal of beneficial policies from the Chinese
government would better help bio-pesticide overcome different tasks, CCM research indicates.
Source: Bing
Currently, there are over 40 R&D
institutes of bio-pesticide in China, which keeps up with the world in the
abilities in research and development. Moreover, there are over 80
registrations of bio-pesticides in China with over 2,500 products in the
market, according to CCM’s external expert, Wang Jianwo, secretary general of
Hunan Pesticide Industry Association.
However, the bio-pesticide industry
develops quite slowly in China. The total revenue of 843 pesticide enterprises
with considerable scales in China reached USD48.3 billion in 2014, up 7.5%
YoY. Among the 843 enterprises, the total revenues of 130 bio-pesticide
enterprises and microbial pesticides were only USD4.403 billion in 2014, accounting
for less than 10% of the total revenues of 843 pesticides enterprises,
according to CCM’s new report of Development
of Bio-pesticide Industry in China.
Problems
existing in bio-pesticides industry
In fact, several barriers are hindering the
development of bio-pesticides: the holding back from the pesticides
manufacturers, the sluggish development on R&D of bio-pesticide, and farmers’
reluctant use of bio-pesticides, analyzed in Development of Bio-pesticide
Industry in China, CCM’s report.
Most bio-pesticide manufacturers are
small-scale in China. With large investment but long and slow returns, the
manufacturers are holding back in investing in bio-pesticide.
At present, there are more than 240
bio-pesticides enterprises in China. Among them, there are only a few
enterprises like Hebei Veyong Bio-Chemical Co., Ltd., Wuhan Kernel Bio-te.00ch
Co., Ltd., etc. have a certain size, but the vast majority is small
enterprises. These enterprises lack technical staff and financial
resources, and they have small-scale production, single
species and vulnerability to market shock.
“The product of beauveria bassiana has been studied for more than 20 years while
still has not yet been commercialized”, stated Hu Qiuyi, general manager
of Shanxi Kegu Bio-pesticide Co., Ltd. “It has affected the company’s follow-up
investment in R&D.”
When it comes to the R&D in
bio-pesticide industry, bio-pesticides study is mainly conducted by
research institutes. The vast majority of China's
bio-pesticide enterprises own no research and development institutions for
new products, while they focus on the production of formulation.
Research and production are carried
out by different departments whose interests are not
related, thus the research and technology achievements cannot
be transferred into production. What's worse, there are few
studies about the intermediate of the industrial fermentation process, the
product toxicity and the environmental behavior, CCM’s report of Development of Bio-pesticide Industry in
China indicates.
Most of the farmers prefer chemical
pesticides rather than the bio-pesticides, because bio-pesticides are of slow
effect and higher price than chemical pesticides.
It usually takes one or two days for the
bio-pesticides to take effect. Along with the relatively higher price of
bio-pesticide, it's hard for farmers to use them widely. What's
worse, due to these objective reasons, the companies are reluctant to maintain
production and promotion.
Beneficial
policies to encourage bio-pesticide development
With the support of the policies from the
Chinese government, the bottleneck in the bio-pesticide development could be
broken.
In recent years, the Chinese government has
continuously released a series of policies to hinder the development of
chemicals fertilizers. That’s to say, the development of bio-pesticides is
being greatly supported, indicated
by Development of Bio-pesticide Industry
in China.
Keys on Planting Industry 2015 released
by China’s Ministry of Agriculture in Jan. 2015 pointed out that China should
promote the pesticides with high-effect, low-toxicity and low-residue to meet
with the goals of Zero Increase in the use of fertilizer pesticides.
Bio-pesticide, safer and more environmental
friendly in application, would be highly promoted by the government.
In fact, during the past few years, some
products of bio-pesticide have been successfully promoted. For example, the new
type of anthraquinone compounds, a natural agricultural fungicide, is listed in
the promotion products of China Spark Program, a program to develop rural
economy in China. It was also certificated for organic and natural cosmetics by
ECOCERT in European Union.
This kind of fungicides succeeds 90% in
preventing diseases. The vegetables and fruits can be eaten the next day after
the fungicide is applied. Since 2008, anthraquinone has been applied in over 1.33
million ha.
Some
related policies on bio-pesticide or pesticide industry in China, as of 2016
|
Time
|
Issuing institution
|
Policy/regulation
|
Content
|
|
2016
|
The Ministry of Agriculture
|
The 13th Five-year Plan
|
Increase the pesticide waste disposal
rate from 20% in the 12th Five-year Plan to 30%, and the
rate of by-product utilization to 30% in 2016.
|
|
2015
|
The State Council
|
Several Opinions on Implementation
of New Concept of Development, Speeding up Modernization of Agriculture and
Realizing a Well-off Society
|
Start-up the action of Zero Increase in
the use of fertilizer pesticides and the pesticide utilization rate of both the
fertilizer and main crops will exceed 40% till 2020.
Promote the fixed-point operation of high
toxicity pesticides and demonstration subsidies of low toxicity and low
residue pesticides.
|
|
2011
|
The State Development and Reform
Commission
|
The Guidance Catalogue for the Industrial
Structure Adjustment
|
The guidance pointed out that it will
limit the production of pesticide technical with high toxicity, high residue
and great influence on the environment
|
|
2010
|
China's Ministry of Industry and
Information Technology
|
Plan of Relocation of Pesticide
Manufactures
|
The production of pesticides in China
will be more centralized. Till 2015, over 50% of total pesticide
manufacturers in China would be relocated into chemical parks, and the number
of relocated manufacturers will exceed 80% by 2020.
|
Source: Excerpted from Development of Bio-pesticide Industry
in China
Note:
It is not the same chart as it is in the report. Some information has been
deleted in the chart above.
Moreover, according to the Chairman of the
Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture (ICAMA)'s
Biological Test Chamber, the new registration policies will give more
support to bio-pesticides registration, such as cutting down the efficacy
test time of bio-pesticides from two years to one year, etc. This will help the
bio-pesticide manufacturers reduce the registration time and seize the market
opportunities.
With all the policies mentioned above, CCM’s report of Development of Bio-pesticide
Industry in China forecasts that the domestic supply and demand for
bio-pesticides will show a slight increase in the next five years (2016-2020).
In 2015, the bio-pesticides accounted for
about 10% of the total pesticide market in China. In the next five years
or more, it is expected that the bio-pesticides will not replace the chemical
pesticide completely, but they will gradually substitute some chemical
pesticides, and coexist with those high-effective and low-toxic ones in the
future, forecasted in Development
of Bio-pesticide Industry in China.
Forecast
on supply of major bio-pesticides in China, 2016-2020
Source: Development of Bio-pesticide Industry in China, CCM
Forecast on demand for major bio-pesticides
in China, 2016-2020
Source: Development of Bio-pesticide
Industry in China, CCM
In CCM’s new edition of Development
of Bio-pesticide Industry in China, you could find out the latest
information of the major bio-pesticides about history, registrations,
technology, raw material, production, export and import, consumption and forecast. Information about 8 kinds of major bio-pesticides is
included in the report – bacillus thuringiensis, abamectin, jingangmycin, bacillus
subtilis, bacillus cereus, matrine, oligosaccharins, and brassinolide.
If you would like to learn more the
bio-pesticide industry in China, you could visit Development
of Bio-pesticide Industry in China or contact us by emailing econtact@cnchemicals.com or
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