GuangzhouChina Mar. 23, 2011 - Many factors can lead to prices of pesticide increase, including nationalpolicy, supply and demand,raw material prices, etc. Recently,with theupstreamraw materials fluctuate, the price of pesticide increased. As increasing price of organic solvents, yellow phosphorus also increased slightly, which is the raw material of organic phosphorus pesticides, and it lead to organic phosphorus products, chlorpyrifos, dichlorvos and profenofos increased by more than 10%.
Acetonitrile is an important raw material of nitenpyram, which emerged the gap between supply and demand in 2009, and its price increased by USD18237/t from low price USD3040/t to USD4559/t million. the price of 95% nitenpyram technical in major manufacturers has reached USD63830/t in 2010. If the price of Acetonitrile maintains at a high level, it will still have increasing space for the price of nitenpyram technicals.
In addition, as the price of paraformaldehyde and natural gas increases highly, the cost ofglyphosate and glycine will also have a rapid increase, and international crude oil price is another reason that the cost of some raw materials increases.
Source: CCM International