ChemLinked: ICAMA Registration of Seed Treatment to Double in Next Three Years
30 December 2013 
Seed treatments currently make up just 1.5% of all registered pesticides in China.
Image courtesy of Syngenta
The number of pesticide registrations for seed treatment products will climb to more than 900 in the next two or three years from the current 375, according to an article by ChemLinked’s Fang Lin.
The article said that during a conference in Nanjing, Dr. Li Xianbin from ICAMA revealed that the number of registrations and field trials had more than doubled from last year and more active ingredients and combination technology will be introduced into this booming sector.
More than 400 companies have entered the seed treatment market and the number of registered products has reached 375, consisting of 20 temporary registrations and 355 full registrations, according to ChemLinked, which added: “That represents an 11.3% increase on the previous year. What is worth mentioning is that the number of applications for field trial has grown to 347 from 187 back in 2012.”
According to the article, the most popular pesticide active ingredients that have been applied was the insecticide imidacloprid, with136 applications, followed by the insecticide thiamethoxam, insecticide fipronil, fungicide difenoconazole and fungicide tebuconazole, with applications totaling 88, 77, 66 and 40, respectively.
“In EU, seed treatment accounts for almost 15% of the crop protection market. If a similar market share can be enjoyed, China’s seed treatment segment could reached as much as 3.5 billion CNY, more than doubled from today’s 1.5 billion CNY,” ChemLinked quoted a representative from Rotam as saying.
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