In recent years, the quality and safety accidents of agricultural products have become more frequent and the pressure and responsibilities of pesticides as an important agricultural product have become increasingly greater. For pesticide companies, how to make profits and avoid hazards, give play to the beneficial effects of pesticides, and manage and control the potential risks of pesticides, we must speed up the transformation of pesticide management development methods, promote pesticide franchisees to optimize product structure, and increase the technological content of pesticide products. .
Current situation: Overcapacity and low technological content
Looking at the status quo of China’s pesticide industry, it can be summarized in one sentence: weak technological innovation capabilities and low levels of technology and equipment. Li Zhonghua, secretary-general of the China Pesticide Industry Association, pointed out that simple imitation is guided by a single profit, resulting in increasingly intense competition for product homogeneity, which exacerbates excess capacity in the industry. Many varieties under vicious competition have become unprofitable. Chang Yingzhi, a researcher in the chemical industry of China Investment Advisors Co., Ltd., said that serious overcapacity, irrational product structure, and chaotic operation and management issues are very unfavorable to the sustainable development of the pesticide industry in China.
Crack: technological innovation must increase investment
From the pesticide industry, formulation development and innovation are more related to the survival and development of pesticide companies in China. Compared with the original drug, the production of pesticide formulations has less environmental impact.
Wu Xuemin, professor of Applied Chemistry at the Faculty of Science at the China Agricultural University, said that the development of pesticides should be from rough to precise, from physical and chemical properties to biological activities, and labor-saving and precise formulation types, seed coating agents, controlled release technologies, nanotechnology, etc. New formulation research and development hotspots. Zhang Hongjun, Director of the Quality Review Division of the Agricultural Chemical Inspection Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Industry, proposed how to avoid research and development of pesticide herbicides, alternative technologies and preparations in the era of high-toxicity pesticides, and pesticide-specific preparations and auxiliaries that match pesticide fly defense technology. Registration management policies and regulations, product quality standards and related test guidelines are all new opportunities and challenges faced by the upgrading of the pharmaceutical industry.
Direction: shoulder social responsibility to promote green sustainable development
Sun Shubao, president of the China Pesticide Industry Association, called for more and bigger companies to make some achievements in industrial restructuring, product restructuring, and strengthening corporate concentration. At the same time, they hope that companies can shoulder their social responsibilities and promote sustainable green development of the industry.
Duan Yousheng, director of the Information Department of the China Pesticide Industry Association, pointed out that at present, the domestic plant protection industry still faces the current situation of “strong” drugs, “weak” preparations, internal and external imbalances, and impracticality, and there is no service for sales. In the current urgent period of transformation and upgrading, Policies, markets, and science and technology have provided the industry with conditions for transformation and upgrading. In the future development of the pesticide industry, the company’s own positioning should be further subdivided. In terms of business models, service-led development of the Chinese agrochemical industry is the mainstream. Trends, precision agriculture based on the Internet of Things, big data, e-commerce, flight defense, and biotechnology are all new opportunities for the transformation and upgrading of the industry.