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The Great Divide in China's Pesticide Industry: Quality Brands Thrive While Price Warriors Fade
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The Great Divide in China's Pesticide Industry: Quality Brands Thrive While Price Warriors Fade

China's pesticide industry is undergoing a profound structural shift, bifurcating into two distinct factions with vastly different futures. On one side, quality-driven, brand-focused companies are flourishing, with demand for their products outstripping supply. On the other, companies mired in a low-price "race to the bottom" are facing dwindling sales and an existential crisis.

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Jiangsu Proposes New Chemical Regulations, Signaling Major Shake-up for Pesticide Industry
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Jiangsu Proposes New Chemical Regulations, Signaling Major Shake-up for Pesticide Industry

The Department of Industry and Information Technology of Jiangsu Province recently released the Jiangsu Provincial Catalogue for the Restriction and Elimination of Chemical Industry Structural Adjustments (2025 Edition, Draft for Public Comment). As a major hub for China's chemical industry, Jiangsu's new policy draft sets a clear direction for the sector's future. The provisions targeting the pesticide industry are particularly significant, establishing a two-tiered system of "Restricted" and "Eliminated" categories to drive the industry towards safer, greener, and more efficient practices.

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New Trends in the Seed Treatment Market for H1 2025: Focusing on Peanuts and Wheat, Uncovering Opportunities in Five Major Crops
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New Trends in the Seed Treatment Market for H1 2025: Focusing on Peanuts and Wheat, Uncovering Opportunities in Five Major Crops

Seeds are the "chips" of agriculture, and seed treatment agents are the key technology that outfits these "chips" with high-tech "armor." By scientifically formulating fungicides, insecticides, plant growth regulators, and film-forming agents, seed treatments provide a protective yet permeable coating for seeds. This technology not only prevents pests and diseases from the source but also significantly enhances crop stress resistance and final yield. It is a vital pathway to standardizing seed quality, reducing pesticide use, and protecting the agricultural ecosystem.

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Securing the Autumn Harvest: The "One-Spray, Multi-Effect" Technique Boosts Stable and High Yields
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Securing the Autumn Harvest: The "One-Spray, Multi-Effect" Technique Boosts Stable and High Yields

With the "Start of Autumn" (Lìqiū) solar term now past, China's autumn grain production has entered its most critical stage of yield formation. To confront the multiple challenges of high temperatures, drought, flooding, and pests and diseases, a field management technique known as "One-Spray, Multi-Effect" is emerging as a powerful tool for securing the harvest. This technique involves the scientific blending and single-application spraying of foliar fertilizers, plant growth regulators, and pesticides to achieve the combined goals of disaster mitigation, nutrient supplementation, pest and disease control, and growth promotion, providing strong technical support for stable and high yields of rice, corn, and soybeans.

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A New Era in Pesticides: How New Labeling Rules Are Reshaping the Industry
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A New Era in Pesticides: How New Labeling Rules Are Reshaping the Industry

January 1, 2026, is set to become a watershed moment for China's pesticide industry. On that day, a new regulation from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (Announcement No. 925) will take effect, heralding a profound transformation centered on the humble product label. This is no mere update of information; it is a fundamental redesign of the industry's operating logic through mandatory transparency. The new rules aim to end the long-standing problem of a fragmented and disorganized market, propelling the sector toward greater accountability, brand integrity, and consolidation.

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Prothioconazole Market Landscape Reshaped: New Combination Products Break with Tradition, Ushering in an Era of Diversification
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Prothioconazole Market Landscape Reshaped: New Combination Products Break with Tradition, Ushering in an Era of Diversification

China's agrochemical market has recently witnessed a pivotal product evolution. Three new combination products for the major fungicide prothioconazole have been officially approved for registration. All three combine prothioconazole with QoI (Quinone outside Inhibitor) fungicides—namely trifloxystrobin, azoxystrobin, and pyraclostrobin—and are all designated for the control of Fusarium head blight (FHB) in wheat. This development not only significantly enriches the prothioconazole product portfolio but also signals a fundamental break from its long-standing, relatively monolithic combination model.

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A Deep Dive into China's Mango Pesticide Market: Structural Imbalances and Potential Risks Beneath a Prosperous Facade
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A Deep Dive into China's Mango Pesticide Market: Structural Imbalances and Potential Risks Beneath a Prosperous Facade

As the world's second-largest mango producer, China's mango industry boasts increasing economic value, with annual production now exceeding 4 million tons. However, the pesticide registration system that supports this massive industry, despite its seemingly prosperous surface, reveals multiple challenges, including severe structural imbalances, growing product homogenization, and rising resistance risks.

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The New Agrochemical Landscape: 501 Proposed Registrations Reveal Trends in Competition and Innovation
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The New Agrochemical Landscape: 501 Proposed Registrations Reveal Trends in Competition and Innovation

Recently, the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (ICAMA) of China, released its latest list (9th batch of 2025) of agrochemical products proposed for registration. This announcement, which includes 501 new products and 119 registration amendments, is more than just a routine administrative notice; it serves as a crucial bellwether for the future direction of China's agrochemical market. It clearly reveals which products are set to enter the market, which active ingredients are becoming fiercely competitive, and what new opportunities are quietly emerging.

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Authoritative Interpretation of the "One Registration Certificate, One Product" Policy for Pesticides
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Authoritative Interpretation of the "One Registration Certificate, One Product" Policy for Pesticides

Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued Announcement No. 925, putting forward further requirements on the labeling of pesticide labels and instructions. Officials from the Crop Production Management Department (Pesticide Management Department) and the Legal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs accepted interviews with media reporters to interpret the relevant contents of Announcement No. 925.

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