Indonesia Pesticide Management and Registration Procedure
25 February 2015 Although Indonesia is one of the world’s major agricultural countries, in terms of its domestic capacities it lacks many of the basic agricultural inputs particularly in its indigenous pesticide industry. Indonesia’s pesticide industry is highly dependent on importation. In 2012 Indonesia’s pesticide market was valued at approximately $2 billion. About 64% of Indonesia’s market was controlled by MNCs and the largest pesticide consumers by sector were rice cultivation (41%) and palm plantation crops (27%).
From the perspective of product category the most utilized products were herbicides (42.5%) with glyphosate and paraquat reaching almost 120 thousand tons. Insecticide was the second largest product category by consumption (37.5%) and the most used active ingredient was carbofuran (40,000 tons). Fungicide accounted for about 18% of the market and the most popular active ingredients were mancozeb and propineb.
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