Potato seed treatment product has broad development prospects

Summary: At present, domestic seed treatment products are mainly registered for a few

crops, such as corn, wheat, soybean and rice. However, with farmers' increasing knowledge

of potato seed treatment and the improvement of potato seed treatment equipment, the

market for potato seed treatment products will have great development potential.

Tag: export and import, seed treatment, azoxystrobin,patent protection

On Nov. 24, 2013, the Third Seed Treatment and Pest Control High-level Seminar was held in

Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province. According to the seminar, the number of seed treatment

registrations reached 375 as of November, 2013, up by 11.3% over last year. There are some

experts predicting that the number of registered seed treatment products in China may double

to more than 900 in the next two to three years, according to Fungicides China News, issued

by CCM in January.

However, at present, domestic seed treatment products are mainly registered for only a few

crops, such as corn, wheat, soybean and rice. The number of seed treatment products

registered for potato, the fourth largest food crop in China, is very small. With farmers'

increasing knowledge of potato seed treatment and the improvement of potato seed treatment

equipment, the market for potato seed treatment products has great development potential.

At present, the number of domestic potato seed treatments is too few to meet needs of the

market. As of 18 Dec. 2013, there are three companies obtaining the registrations for potato

seed treatment products in China, including Syngenta, Bayer and Gansu Huashi Agricultural

Technology Co., Ltd.

Moreover, there are only six potato treatment products that have been registered, including

two fludioxonil products (25g/L FS), one metalaxyl product (25% FS), two thiamethoxam

products (70% ZF) and one imidacloprid product (600g/L FS). These products are used to

control black scurf disease (caused by rhizoctonia solani), late blight disease, aphids and

grubs.

After years of development, more companies have paid attention to the domestic potato seed

treatment market. Therefore, there are some domestic experts predicting that the application

of potato seed treatment products will enter a new stage in the next five years and this will

promote the rapid and steady development of the potato industry.

China's potato planting area and fresh potato output are the biggest in the world. China's

2012 potato planting area is more than 5.20 million ha. while China's annual fresh potato

output is more than 81.54 million tonnes. Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan,

Chongqing and Heilongjiang are the major potato producing areas in China, and the total

planting area of these seven regions accounts for more than 70% of China's potato planting

area.

The number of potato diseases is more than one hundred, and there are mainly 15 kinds of

common potato diseases in China, including late blight, wart disease, scab, early blight, ring

rot, bacterial wilt, blackleg, viral disease, bacterial soft rot, dry rot, verticillium wilt, black scurf

etc. The late blight, ring rot and viral disease are known as the three major diseases. The

main pests to potato are ladybugs, tuber moths, aphids and underground pests such as

grubs, mole crickets and cutworms.

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China’s ecological agriculture development plan will benefit bio-pesticide industry

Large-scale planting expansion gives rise to modern pesticide sprayers

Potato seed treatment product has broad development prospects

China's export volume of azoxystrobin TC soars in Jan.-Oct. 2013

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China's total profit of pesticide industry soars by 39.1% YoY, Jan.-Oct. 2013

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