According to the Voice of Agriculture, Rural Areas and Farmers in China, the pesticide market entered a sales season in March. Recently, the reporter visited the market and found that the enthusiasm of farmers to buy pesticides has not been as high as in previous years. It turned out that compared with last year, this year’s pesticide prices have risen in different ranges, which makes everyone feel “a bit expensive.”

At the same time, herbicide preparation companies in corn fields and soybean fields also welcomed the original medicine preparation season. Like peasants, these preparation companies have also encountered the problem of a substantial increase in the price of pesticides. Why are the prices of preparation and active compound rising this year?

In the season of plowing and ploughing, the pesticide market ushered in the sales season. However, the reporter went deep into the largest agricultural product distribution market in Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia, but found that the scene of purchasing pesticides over the years did not appear. Farmer Wang Hongtian who is asking about pesticide prices:

Wang Honda: The pesticide hasn’t been bought yet, because the price is too expensive. I want to start farming and buy it again.

The reporter learned from the interview that at present, the enthusiasm of farmers for purchasing pesticides is not very high, and most farmers take a wait-and-see attitude. Zhang Yingbo, the head of the company’s agricultural distribution office, told reporters that since the beginning of last year, the price of pesticides has shown signs of price increases, and the recent sales season has been extremely high.

Zhang Yingbo: This year, the most important thing is the rise in agricultural capital. Every year, we can sell some goods before the year. We did not sell it before this year, and many farmers are watching.

The data show that, compared with the price in the same period of previous years, the price of common insecticides on the market has risen to varying degrees, and the price of some types of pesticides even rose by more than 100%.

At the same time, the reporter learned that the price of the original drug of pesticides also increased significantly, with the highest rise of nitenpyram original drug reaching 93.55%, and the price per ton of 300,000 yuan. Zhuo Chuang, an analyst at Zhuo Chuang, told reporters that the direct cause of the rise in pesticide prices this year was the substantial increase in pesticides.

Niu Weina: Relatively few companies produce pesticide products, and they are concentrated in Jiangsu, Shandong, and others. At the same time, the operating rate of production enterprises in the second half of the year has been greatly affected, so production capacity is difficult to release, resulting in a particularly tight supply of the original drug, and the amount of original drugs that can be used by production companies is also very limited, which results in a relatively tight market supply, and even some A product is hard to find.

Why did the price of pesticides rise sharply? Why would it be difficult to obtain a single supply? Analyst Niu Weina said that this is mainly related to strict environmental supervision in the past two years. In order to allow enterprises to achieve environmental protection standards, many large and medium-sized enterprises last year Pesticide companies have renewed their equipment, and the renewed equipment needs to stop production, thus delaying the production and supply of pesticide products, resulting in a reduction in supply and an increase in prices.

In addition, some small manufacturers that do not meet environmental standards can only stop production and shutdown, which makes the phenomenon of shortage of pesticides even worse.

Seeing that the spring tillage preparation is coming, prices of pesticides and pesticides have risen. This has caused many agricultural sellers to be in a hurry. They worry that the longer the pesticide prices are, the higher the price will be. Purchased pesticide products. The concentrated purchases by distributors have caused the demand for pesticides to soar in the previous period, and the increase in demand has further driven up prices. Analyst Niu Weina:

Niu Weina: In the state of limited supply, and we predict that the market will continue to supply tension in the late period, so the original purchase order will be in February and March, everyone in advance of the procurement is completed, the manufacturers of stocking also have to follow. And it is said that buying up or not buying falls, the more the price rises, the more eager the sellers are to buy goods, so the market demand also increases.

The increase in demand and the promotion of costs have led to an increase in the price of raw drugs.

According to industry insiders, the environmental supervision will be strengthened in 2018 and 2019. Therefore, the shortage of pesticide raw materials may not be improved, which means that pesticides may also maintain high prices.

Niu Weina: With the price of crude drugs rising significantly, domestic pesticide prices have also risen, but international pesticide products have not risen, so some of the foreign trade orders purchased in our country’s products can also be purchased from other countries. However, with the situation in March, the follow-up of foreign trade orders was still a bit sluggish, so the prices of raw medicines have dropped from their highs.