Research and Markets: Crop Protection China Market Opportunities and Challenges Report Reveals the Total CP Market Value was USD11,499.39 Million in 2008

DUBLIN--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/e31aaf/crop_protection_ch) has
announced the addition of the "Crop Protection China Market Opportunities and
Challenges" report to their offering.

China is a traditional agricultural country, with a total area of 5,000 billion
square meters stricken by plant diseases and insect pests each year. With only
7% of the world's arable land, China has fed 22% of the world's population,
which is a great marvel in history. How do Chinese people achieve this? One
answer is making good use of crop protection.

China is a traditional agricultural country, with a total area of 5,000 billion
square meters stricken by plant diseases and insect pests each year. With only
7% of the world's arable land, China has fed 22% of the world's population,
which is a great marvel in history. How do Chinese people achieve this? One
answer is making good use of crop protection.

Crop protection is widely applied across the world and plays important roles in
guaranteeing the safety of agricultural production and the quality of products,
minimizing environmental pollution, safeguarding public health and promoting the
sustainable development of agriculture in China. In recent years, crop
protection has drawn more and more attention from the government and its status
has been improved, due to the frequent outbreak of diseases, insect pests and
weeds, and the stricter requirement on ecological environment, food quality and
natural resources.

The total CP market value was USD11,499.39 million in 2008. With USD.6,191.50
million which accounts for 53.84% of total market value in 2008, seed plays the
most important role in Chinese CP market. Chemical control has ranked the second
largest market value of USD15,738.10 million in 2008, taking up 68.13%. CP
machine, with USD827.93 million in 2008, also plays an important role. Though
China is promoting environmentally friendly methods, such as physical control
and biological control, these methods' value is still not very high. Their
market value is only USD343.17 million, consisting of only 3.00%. But these
methods will have very bright future.

As the largest agricultural and most populous country, China's plant structure
of crops and grain situation have played a great important role in national
strategic security. However, owing to frequent natural disasters, increasing
entering of alien species and serious pesticide resistance, the occurrence of
crop diseases, insect pests and weeds is becoming more and more serious, which
contributes to great challenges in crop protection, such as development and
promotion of lowly toxic pesticides, the R&D of GM seeds. At the same time, it
also bring many investment opportunities in the fields of seed trade, seed R&D,
pesticide trade and pesticide R&D, etc. This report will give a detailed
introduction and summary about the trade and treatment of seeds, grain supply
and demand, production and consumption of pesticides, control measures for crop
diseases, insect pests and weeds and opportunities and challenges of CP market,
etc.

MNCs, with their endeavours, captures 20% pesticide market, 50% vegetable seeds
market and 4% corn seed market in 2008 in China.

The key findings in this report includes:

* The total CP market value is USD11,499.39 million in 2008. Seed plays the most
important role in Chinese CP market.
* Chemical control is still the main control method in China which will not be
changed in the foreseeable future
* Physical control and Biological control will have a bright future in China
* With the promotion of Chinese government, seed treatment has developed
quickly. Now, about 80% seed is treated and most of them are treated by peasants
themselves with fungicide and insecticide, though some peasants choose seed
coating agent.
* Above 350 CP machine manufacturers produce about 14 million CP machines in
2008 with 12 million sold in China. Now, China totally has about 80 million CP
machines. Mechanical CP machines will be more popular in the future.
* Chinese peasants pay more attention to products quality
* MNCs, with their endeavours, captures 20% pesticide market, 50% vegetable
seeds market and 4% corn seed market in 2008 in China.
* Glyphosate-resistance corn and GM rice are possibly to be approved in the next
five years

From this report, you will get the following knowledge about Chinese CP market:

* Opportunity and challenge of CP market
* Current situation and forecast of crops and grain
* Current situation and forecast of pesticide industry
* Current situation and forecast of crop protection technologies
* Current situation and forecast of plant diseases, insect pests and weeds
* Current situation and forecast of seed and seed treatment
* Current situation and forecast of CP machines
* The regulations and policies and their influence on crop protection
* Relationship between pesticides and environment protection
* The purchase and use habit on CP products by peasants

Companies Mentioned:

* Shenzhen Biocentury Trangene (China) Co., Ltd.
* Shandong Denghai Seeds Co., Ltd.
* Beijing Origin Agritech Co., Ltd.
* Nanjing Redsun Co., Ltd.
* Jiangsu Yangnong Chemical Group Co., Ltd.

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