The Chinese government recently launched a project named “High-toxic pesticide replacement” in order to encourage people to use mor e environmental friendly chemicals in consideration of the public health and to avoid serious environmental pollution.

Thiodiazole-copper is one of the recommended products. As a new kind of effective fungicide, which is low-toxic, very safe, and commonly used to control bacterial leaf spot and leaf blight of rice, canker and scab of citrus, performances better job then Yekuzuo and other inorganic copper formulation which are currently used worldwide.

By Cherry

From this season, Abamectin, Emamectin benzoate and their formulations are facing a prosperous sale in Chinese domestic market. Almost manufacturer are in a short supply and the prices are risng dramatically, which is 10%-15% higher mid of March.

Now the orders for domestic and international sales are full up to end of May 2009. We estimated that the situation will become better in the beginning of June.

China Environmental Protection Department (EPD), Ministry of Agriculture and United Nations Development Program (NUDP) announce IPM technology demonstration projects startup in Beijing at 8th April.

DDT is one of the twelve controlled materials in <POPs>. China will prohibit import and export DDT and the insecticides contained DDT or other POPs' (including non-closed produced dicofol) entirely since 17 th May 2009 (except use for disease control)..

The main manufacturer of dicofol in China also agreed that Dicofol contained DDT will be substituted sooner or later but until now they didn't receive any formal notification. At present, the production and supply of Dicofol is still normal .

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