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Date:2013/06/12
According to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), China's grain import volume will probably decrease considerably by 17% in the fiscal year 2012–2013 (Oct. 2012–Sept. 2013) mainly because of soaring corn price resulting from droug...
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Date:2013/06/12
As one of the largest pesticide production and export countries in the world, China has witnessed continuous growth in its pesticide output and export in recent years. Its pesticide TC output in 2012 reached 3,549,090 tonnes, exceeding 3 million tonn...
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Date:2013/06/12
Twelve domestic hybrid rice seed companies including Longping High-tech, Grand Agriseeds, Hefei Fengle, etc. are planning to jointly set up a molecular breeding platform for hybrid rice, with a total investment of USD48 million (RMB300 million). This...
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Date:2013/06/14
The Brazilian imports of pesticides (active ingredients and intermediates) broke records in 2012. According to data from the National Union of the Agricultural Defense Products Industry (SINDAG), the imports achieved USD5,500 million and grew 10% ove...
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Date:2013/06/14
Although China is the largest supplier of stevia sweetener worldwide, the consumption in the domestic market is small, about 20.0% of the total output is consumed in China. However, it grew relatively stability with a CAGR of 4.9% in 2010–2012....
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Date:2013/06/17
Metabolix, a bioscience company focused on delivering sustainable solutions for plastics, chemicals and energy, announced on March 26, 2013 that it has signed a distribution agreement with Tianjin GreenBio Materials Co., Ltd. (GreenBio). Under the te...
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Date:2013/06/17
Domestic ex-factory price of azoxystrobin technical witnessed rebound to a certain extent in the first half of 2013 as the demand for this fungicide increased mainly from overseas market and the stocks of some leading domestic manufacturers got low, ...
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Date:2013/06/19
In May 2013, an insecticide namely aldicarb (Brand name in Chinese: Shennongdan) involved in a food scandal which happened in the rural areas of Weifang City, Shandong Province. It has been confirmed that some farmers in the areas had been overusing ...
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Date:2013/06/19
On June 3rd, 2013, Hubei Xingfa Chemicals Group Co., Ltd. (Hubei Xingfa) reported it expects to report a 30–50% decline in net profit in the first half of 2013, compared to USD25.66 million of net profit in H1 2012, according to CCM’s Pho...
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Date:2013/06/19
On May 27, 2013, the Ministry of Commerce of P. R. China issued an announcement that China preliminarily judged that Indian and Japanese companies dumped pyridine to China, which damaged China's pyridine industry. The certain period of this pyrid...
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Date:2013/06/26
On June 6, 2013, Global Bio-chem Technology Group Co., Ltd. (Global Bio-chem) and Global Sweeteners Holdings Limited (Global Sweeteners) announced that they will cooperate with Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) for a year. After this operation, AD...
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Date:2013/06/26
TiO2 prices are increasing again! On May 30, 2013, both DuPont and Tronox announced a TiO2 price increase. It was the third wave of TiO2 price increases by international TiO2 giants in the year so far. The first wave occurred at around the end of Feb...
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Date:2013/06/22
On 20 May, 2013, Mengniu announced that its majority shareholder, COFCO, has signed an agreement with Danone, to form a JV named Prominent Achiever. COFCO has agreed to transfer 148,014,022 shares in Mengniu to the JV, in which COFCO and Danone will ...
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Date:2013/06/22
According to CCM’s China Fluoride Materials Monthly Report issued in June, the new policy in the air-conditioning industry may increase the market share of R410a. For R410a producers, it is a good chance to generate more profit in the intense d...
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Date:2013/06/28
A large number of Chinese people still blindly reject or have a fuzzy understanding of GM products; even some experts and organizations have been greatly opposing the commercial planting of GM grain crops. Government departments represented by the MO...
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Date:2013/06/28
The output of industry feed increased to 5.13 million tonnes by 2.3% over the same period of last year in Guangdong province, among which formula feed increased to 4.88 million tonnes, up 1.6%, concentrate feed to 0.10 million tonnes, up 17.7% and ad...
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Date:2013/06/30
Driven by the domestic pesticide industry's prominent performance in export in 2012, more and more investments are reckoned to flow into the industry this year.
In April, 10, 2013, there are 27,843 valid pesticide registrations applied...
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Date:2013/07/01
Rockwood achieved net salesof USD935 million in 1Q 2013, increasing by 2.75% compared with USD910 million in 1Q 2012. However, adjusted Earnings before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) decreased by 28.5% from USD235 million in ...
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Date:2013/07/01
The demand for starch sugar from the domestic beverage industry is likely to expand in the next several months with the arrival of summer season. As a result, the demand for starch sugar in China may exceed its supply a bit in next several months, wh...
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Date:2013/07/03
Due to immense impact resulted from the tainted Sanlu milk powder incident in 2008, China mainland’s dairy industry has encountered gloomy days. However, with the impact of the food safety incident gradually fades away, most Chinese dairy compa...