According to the statistics of the MOA, the number of pesticides registered in China in 2012 and 2013 both remained more than 3,000 per year, but it fell slightly in 2014. In 2014, 3,370 products were registered, down 1.6% year on year (YoY), of which there were 3,082 field pesticides, down 1.1% YoY, and 288 household pesticides, down 7.1% YoY. 2,952 were under official registration and 418 under temporary registration. Official registration accounted for 87%, basically the same as last year.
Among the pesticides registered in 2014, there were 1,097 insecticides, accounting for 33%, down 8.9% YoY; 968 fungicides, accounting for 28.7%, up 14.6% YoY; 898 herbicides, accounting for 26.6%, down 5.0% YoY. Insecticides still had the highest proportion (33%), showing a trend of falling from a high level. Fungicides grew significantly, which is a mutual corroboration with the largest number of azoxystrobin products registered. The relationship between the change in registration structure and the expiry of product patents is worth studying.
In 2014, 422 TCs/TKs were registered, accounting for 12.5% of the total registered number throughout the year, up 33.1% YoY, and also 0.9% higher than the historical average.
In the form of pesticides, emulsifiable concentrate (EC), which had always been in the lead, accounted for 9.1% and fell to the fourth place on the list for the first time with a YoY reduction of 45.7%; suspension concentrate (SC) took the first place instead with a proportion of 24.5%, and it was up 43.3% YoY; wettable powder (WP) accounted for 14%, remaining at the second place; water dispersible granule (WDG) accounted for 10.5%, ranking the third. Among other forms, soluble liquid (SL) was up 28.0% YoY, oil dispersion (OD) up 17.6% YoY and seed dressing (SD) up 51.1% YoY, while emulsion in water (EW), microemulsion (ME), granules (GR), aerosol (AE), mosquito coil (MC) and water soluble powder (WS) all dropped compared to last year.