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BASF ups new ais
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potential
page 2
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Bayer files third GMO
suit against Dow
page 2
TKI buys Bayer's
carbaryl business
page 3
Industry deals mooted
for EU GM crop bans
page 9
US EPA plans registration
review meetings
page 13
South/Central Am agchem
sales up 30% in 2011
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China’s glyphosate industry
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page 20
Bayer debuts fluopyram
in Turkey
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AGROW | No 633 | February 8th 2012
CONTENTS
COMPANIES
2 BASF ups new ais and pipeline sales potential
2 Bayer files third GMO suit against Dow
3 Latin America boosts Dow Q4
3 TKI buys Bayer's carbaryl business
3 Amvac gains mosquito larvicides
4 DuPont agchem sales up 9% in Q4
6 United Phosphorus posts 63% Q3 sales spurt
6 Rallis’ Q3 sales up 19%
6 Cheminova’s 2011 revenues up 10%
6 Excel Crop Care up 8% in Q3
EUROPE
9 Industry deals mooted for EU GM crop bans
9 GM soybean decisions returned to EU Commission
10 EU targets extra ais for water quality rules
11 EU updates ais on dangerous chemicals list
12 More EU deadlines for new ai assessments
12 Denmark to impose new tax on pesticides
Correspondent
(China)
Editor in Chief
Deputy Editor
Sanjiv Rana Andy Beer Robert Birkett Hazel Blake
(Europe, Asia) (North America, Australasia) (Latin America) (Plant Biotechechnology)
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AMERICAS
13 US EPA plans registration review meetings
13 US seizes imported orange juice
13 US/Canada seek joint label expansions
15 South American region seeks flexible agchem
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appovals
15 South/Central Am agchem sales up 30% in 2011
15 Brazil updates agchem residue data rules
16 Brazil Anvisa recommends bans on two insecticides
16 Brazil updates agchem residue data rules
18 Peru lifts agchem suspensions and confirms bans
18 Costa Rica court annuls agchem approval provision
ASIA/AUSTRALASIA
20 China’s glyphosate industry consolidates in 2011
PRODUCTS
21 Bayer debuts fluopyram in Turkey
21 BASF brands new dicamba Engenia
22 US appoval for TwinLink cotton
AGBIOTECH EXTRA/RESEARCH
23 New model confirms refuge values
23 Study finds budworms cause of soybean GBS
23 Priming plant defences has heritable benefits
Production
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Companies AGROW | No 633 | February 8th 2012
COMPANIES NEWS ROUND-UP
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF
BASF ups new ais and pipeline
sales potential
Products
Products
Bayer files COMPANIES Products third NEWS GMO IN BRIEF suit against
Products
Dow
BASF has increased the combined peak annual sales potential
EUROPE NEWS ROUND-UP
of its range of new active ingredients by €400 million ($518
million at the current rate) to €2,800 million ($3,625 million).
The upward revision comes mainly through a €300 million
COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF
Bayer CropScience PRODUCTS has filed NEWS another IN BRIEF US lawsuit against Dow
AgroSciences over alleged patent infringement involving herbicide
COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF
tolerance in genetically modified crops. The latest suit accuses
Dow of “unauthorised
PRODUCTS
use”
NEWS
of Bayer
IN BRIEF
patents related to glufosinate
($388 million) rise in the peak annual potential for the
fungicide, pyraclostrobin (trade-marked as F500), which has
AMERICAS NEWS ROUND-UP
been moved up to €1,000 million ($1,295 million). In addition,
tolerance technology. It was filed in the US District Court for
EUROPE
COMPANIES
NEWS
NEWS
IN BRIEF
IN BRIEF
the Eastern District PRODUCTS of Virginia NEWS IN last BRIEF month. Bayer is seeking a
permanent injunction against Dow’s use of the technology.
several projects from early research have been promoted to
development status.
EUROPE
Bayer has filed
COMPANIES NEWS
two previous
NEWS IN BRIEF
lawsuits
IN BRIEF
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF against Dow over alleged
patent infringement through Dow’s development of herbicide-
The company AUSTRALASIA highlights NEWS the IN realisation BRIEF of a major part of the
€1,600 million ($2,072 million) peak annual sales potential
from ais launched since 2002. These include: the fungicides,
pyraclostrobin, orysastrobin, dimoxystrobin, boscalid and
metrafenone; the herbicides, INTELLIGENCE
tritosulfuron and topramezone; and
the insecticides,
PEOPLE
chlorfenapyr and metaflumizone. “This shows
our strong ability to successfully commercialise our products,”
says BASF’s crop protection division president, Markus Heldt.
He points MEETING out the growth in four years of the company’s new ais’
sales potential from €1,800 million ($2,331 million) to €2,800
million.
BASF puts the peak annual sales potential for ais and
genetically COMPANIES modified NEWS crops IN being BRIEFlaunched
within the current
decade
ASIA/AUSTRALASIA/AFRICA
at €1,200 million ($1,554
NEWS
million).
IN BRIEF
They include: the
fungicides, ametoctradin (trade-marked as Initium), fluxapyroxad
(trade-marked as Xemium) and a yet-to-be-named fungicide;
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF
the herbicide, saflufenacil (trade-marked as Kixor) and a yetto-be-named
WORLD herbicide; NEWS IN BRIEF a new insecticide; the imidazolinone
herbicide-tolerant Dow’s new GM sulfoximine soybeans, Cultivance, compound
co-developed with
the Recent Brazilian published agricultural patents research from Dow corporation, AgroSciences the divulge Embrapa; activity
and around dicamba-tolerant EUROPE a certain NEWS N-sulfoximine IN GM BRIEF crops, compound which are with being insecticidal co-developed
with properties. Monsanto. The compound, according to the claims from US
patent PRODUCTS No 20100152245A1 NEWS ROUND-UP entitled “Insecticidal N-substituted
(6-haloalkylpyridin-3-yl)-alkyl sulfoximines” of June 2010, describes
blockbuster the general structure herbicide of the . . active . ingredient and the preferences
regarding its radicals.
The company calls Kixor its blockbuster herbicide. The ai has
been The launched
AMERICAS preferred in structure NEWS
North
IN is: America
BRIEF
and many markets in Latin
America ASIA and NEWS is scheduled IN BRIEF to enter the Brazilian market in the
near future, which will support its global peak sales potential
currently estimated to be €200 million ($259 million). The
Cultivance WORLD/AUSTRALASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA soybeans are due NEWS NEWS to IN be IN BRIEF launched BRIEF in Brazil in 2013.
Dicamba-tolerant soybeans are due to be commercialised in
2014 (Agrow No 631, p 4).
In 2011, BASF invested 9-10% of its crop protection sales
tolerant Enlist AMERICAS EUROPE COMPANIES soybeans. NEWS NEWS Last NEWS IN IN BRIEF October, IN BRIEF BRIEF it accused Dow of
COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF
infringing seven PRODUCTS Bayer patents NEWS IN covering BRIEF glyphosate tolerance
technology (Agrow AGBIOTECH/RESEARCH No 628, p 3). That claim followed a 2010
AMERICAS EUROPE Products
NEWS NEWS IN IN BRIEF BRIEF NEWS IN BRIEF
lawsuit involving a Bayer patent covering tolerance to the
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF
phenoxy herbicide, PRODUCTS 2,4-D NEWS (Agrow IN BRIEF
ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEFNEWS
No 606, IN BRIEF p 3).
AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF
Dow believes EUROPE all three NEWS lawsuits IN BRIEF are “without merit” and says
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that it will aggressively ASIA/AUSTRALASIA/WORLD ASIA/AUSTRALASIA defend itself NEWS against IN NEWS BRIEF all IN of BRIEF them. The
company adds AMERICAS
EUROPE that it has NEWS
NEWS developed IN
IN
BRIEF
BRIEF a “substantial intellectual
property estate” EUROPE and has NEWS the IN “utmost BRIEF respect” for intellectual
ASIA/AUSTRALASIA PEOPLE
ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN ROUND-UP BRIEF
property rights. PRODUCTS “Dow AgroSciences NEWS IN BRIEF will do everything in
its power to keep AMERICAS Bayer NEWS from interfering IN BRIEF with its history of
innovation and
PEOPLE
ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA to
NEWS
prevent
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Bayer NEWS from IN depriving BRIEF American
farmers of Enlist AMERICAS products.” NEWS IN BRIEF
PEOPLE MEETING AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF
Dow’s Enlist soybeans EUROPE NEWS are tolerant IN BRIEF to 2,4-D, glyphosate
and glufosinate-ammonium. ASIA/AFRICA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS They
NEWS ROUND-UP are being
IN BRIEF
developed in
collaboration PEOPLE MEETING with US biotechnology company M S Technologies
(West Point, Iowa). ASIA/AUSTRALASIA The firms applied NEWS for IN BRIEF USDA deregulation of
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the soybeans MEETING last August (Agrow No 622, p 27).
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ASIA/AFRICA PRODUCTS ASIA/AUSTRALASIA extend herbicide
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IN BRIEF BRIEF IN deal BRIEF
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Monsanto and Makhteshim-Agan Industries’ (MAI) US business,
www.agrow.com PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF
MANA Crop Protection, PRODUCTS have NEWS extended IN BRIEFtheir
US herbicide
promotion deal MEETING to include MANA’s cotton herbicide, Direx 4L
MEETING
(diuron). Several EUROPE PEOPLE MANA NEWS products
EUROPE NEWS IN
NEWS IN BRIEF were included in Monsanto’s
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Roundup Ready Plus programme, BRIEF which was started in 2010
(Agrow No 603, EUROPE p 3). NEWS Direx 4L IN BRIEF is effective against glyphosate-
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resistant www.agrow.com pigweed (Amaranthus palmeri) and marestail (Conyza
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canadensis), MANA points out. MAI acquired DuPont’s global
non-mixture diuron AMERICAS MEETING herbicide
AMERICAS NEWS business,
AMERICAS NEWS IN
NEWS IN BRIEF including the Direx and
IN BRIEF
Karmex brands, last year (Agrow No BRIEF 614, p 2).
in research PEOPLE and development. It invested €393 million ($509
million) The compound in R&D in is said 2010, to be which active was against equivalent pests that to some have become 10% of
AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF
n Strong Q3 AMERICAS boosts Jiangsu NEWS IN BRIEF Yangnong
its
resistant
crop protection
to one or
sales
more
(Agrow
insecticides
No 612,
currently
p 3).
on the market, as it
either has a new mode of action or an atypical one. Pests targeted
include aphids, plant hoppers, leafhoppers, and whiteflies when
used on food and non-food crops.
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www.agrow.com Leila Nabih, at leila.nabih@informa.com.
Chinese www.agrow.com agrochemical ASIA/AUSTRALASIA COMPANIES company NEWS IN NEWS Jiangsu
ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS BRIEF IN Yangnong
NEWS IN BRIEF Chemical
IN BRIEF
recorded strong pesticide sales of Yuan 373.4
BRIEF
million ($58.6
million at the ASIA/AUSTRALASIA current rate) in the NEWS third IN quarter BRIEFof
2011, up
ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEF
68.3% compared with the same period last year. Net profit for
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF
the three months shot up 70.3% to Yuan 23.5 million ($3.7
PEOPLE
million). The PEOPLE company’s PEOPLE nine-month sales increased by 15% to
Yuan 1,391.6 PEOPLE million ($218.5 million). However, net profit fell
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AGROW | No 633 | February 8th 2012 Companies
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Latin America boosts Dow Q4
Dow AgroSciences’ agrochemical sales in the fourth quarter of
2011 were boosted by a 17% increase in revenues in its Latin
America COMPANIES region. The NEWS business ROUND-UP contributed to record fourthquarter
and full-year sales for parent company Dow Chemical’s
agricultural sciences segment and record fourth-quarter
earnings, the company points out.
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF
The agricultural sciences business posted a 5.3% rise in
revenues in the fourth quarter to $1,344 million. Volumes were
up by 1% and prices by 4%. Earnings before interest, tax,
depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) more than doubled to
EUROPE NEWS ROUND-UP
$145 million. A strong growing season in Latin America boosted
global sales of seed, traits and oils by 22%.
Dow’s fourth-quarter gains followed a 20% rise in agricultural
sciences revenues in the first nine months of the year (Agrow
No 627, AMERICAS p 6). For NEWS the ROUND-UP year as a whole, sales grew by 16.1% to
$5,655 million. Volumes were up by 11% and prices by 5%.
EBITDA grew by 42.7% to $913 million.
Sales of “new” agrochemicals rose by over 20% during 2011.
AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEF
With more product launches planned for 2012, including the
insecticide, sulfoxaflor, the company is on track to exceed its
target of $800 million in annual sales of such products by
2013, says Dow Chemical chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris.
The company PEOPLE received its first approval of sulfoxaflor in South
Korea in November, with a launch planned for the first half of
2012 (Agrow No 629, p 25).
Dow’s MEETING sales of seed, traits and oils grew by 35% last year, with
“significant” gains in key crops such as maize and cotton. It saw
continued strong demand for genetically modified insect-resistant
and herbicide-tolerant SmartStax maize in North America and
increased adoption of Herculex maize in the Americas. The
COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF
company is well on its way to achieving a $1,000 million global
maize ASIA/AUSTRALASIA/AFRICA business, Mr Liveris says. NEWS Dow’s IN share BRIEF of the US cotton
seed market grew by five percentage points in 2011.
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF
Dow’s agricultural sciences results ($ million)
Year ended WORLD Dec NEWS IN BRIEF 2010
31st
% change 2011
Sales 4,869
EUROPE NEWS IN BRIEF
EBITDA1 640
Fourth PRODUCTS quarter NEWS ROUND-UP
+16.1
+42.7
5,655
913
Sales 1,276 +5.3 1,344
EBITDA
AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF
1 72 +101.4 145
1 earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation.
Dow ASIA claims NEWS to have IN BRIEF developed more products per dollar invested
than any other company in the agricultural sciences area. It
launched “four major solutions” in the last three years and
expects WORLD/AUSTRALASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA to launch four more NEWS NEWS this IN IN year, BRIEF BRIEF Mr Liveris says. The
business’ EBITDA margin of 16% in 2011 is said to reflect
this focus on its product pipeline and forward investments. Its
EBITDA margin target of 25% “illustrates the strong potential
this segment PEOPLE boasts going forward”.
The company forecasts “double-digit” growth for its seed and trait
business this year, with “more moderate growth” for agrochemicals.
MEETING
AGROW | No 564 | March 27th 2009
TKI buys Bayer’s carbaryl
business
The Belgian Tessenderlo Group’s US subsidiary, Tessenderlo
Kerley Inc (TKI - Phoenix, Arizona), has acquired the global crop
protection assets of Bayer CropScience’s carbaryl insecticide/
acaricide business Products
Products
for an undisclosed amount. Bayer has
retained the COMPANIES non-crop Products carbaryl NEWS IN business. BRIEF
Products
Carbaryl is marketed under the Sevin brand and associated trade
marks in 40 COMPANIES countries. It NEWS is used IN for BRIEF broad-spectrum pest control
on tree fruits, PRODUCTS nuts, vegetables NEWS IN and BRIEF other crops. The acquisition
covers trade marks, know-how, registrations and registration data.
COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF
“planned expansion” PRODUCTS NEWS . . . IN BRIEF
The carbaryl business will be handled by TKI’s NovaSource crop
EUROPE
COMPANIES
NEWS
NEWS
IN BRIEF
IN BRIEF
protection unit. PRODUCTS “The acquisition NEWS IN BRIEF of the carbaryl insecticide
franchise is another step in the planned expansion of the
company’s niche EUROPE COMPANIES crop NEWS protection NEWS IN BRIEF IN product BRIEF portfolio,” says
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF
NovaSource group vice-president David Cassidy. It follows last
year’s purchase AMERICAS EUROPE COMPANIES of the NEWS NEWS Purshade NEWS IN IN BRIEF IN BRIEF product BRIEF line (Agrow No 623, p
3), the acquisition COMPANIES of DuPont’s NEWS IN terbacil BRIEFand
linuron herbicides in
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF
2007 and 2009, respectively (Agrow No 571, p 3), and BASF’s
AGBIOTECH/RESEARCH
kaolin-based AMERICAS EUROPE insect Products
repellent NEWS NEWS IN IN BRIEF and BRIEF NEWS IN BRIEF
crop protectant, Surround in
2007 (Agrow PRODUCTS No 532, p NEWS 2). IN BRIEF
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF
ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEFNEWS
IN BRIEF
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Amvac ASIA/AUSTRALASIA/WORLD ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN gains mosquito NEWS BRIEF larvicides
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AMERICAS
EUROPE NEWS
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IN
IN
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EUROPE NEWS IN BRIEF
US agrochemical ASIA/AUSTRALASIA PEOPLE
ASIA/AUSTRALASIA company American NEWS IN ROUND-UP Vanguard BRIEF (Los Angeles,
California) has
PRODUCTS
acquired
NEWS
a global
IN BRIEF
licence to US pest control firm
AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF
Summit Chemical’s PEOPLE (Baltimore, Maryland) Bt var israelensis
(Bti)-based ASIA Bti ASIA/AUSTRALASIA Briquets NEWS ROUND-UP for the NEWS control IN of BRIEF mosquito larvae. The
biopesticide AMERICAS has been used NEWS in IN the BRIEF US and abroad for over 30
PEOPLE MEETING AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF
years. Amvac EUROPE is established NEWS IN in BRIEF the control of adult mosquitoes
with its naled-based ASIA/AFRICA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA insecticides, NEWS NEWS ROUND-UP Dibrom IN BRIEF and Trumpet, and sees
the entry into PEOPLE MEETING the larvicide market as an opportunity to reach
new customers. ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEF
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The deal is expected MEETING to result in more products for Amvac in this
AMERICAS
sector. “This PEOPLE NEWS IN BRIEF
COMPANIES agreement will form the cornerstone of a strategic
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partnership with COMPANIES Summit, NEWS which IN is BRIEF expected to provide Amvac
MEETING
with a pipeline PEOPLE COMPANIES of new larvicides NEWS IN manufactured BRIEF by Summit for
PEOPLE
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the public health and mosquito control market,” says Amvac’s
director of international ASIA/AFRICA PRODUCTS ASIA/AUSTRALASIA
PRODUCTS NEWS
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IN BRIEF development, BRIEF IN BRIEF
Vince Pascarelli.
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Council is to EUROPE hold a National NEWS IN Summit BRIEF on Strategies to Manage
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Herbicide-resistant Weeds on May 10th 2012. It will be held
at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. The
Summit, which AMERICAS MEETING
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Society of America, will focus on best management practices
to avoid, mitigate
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and control
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evolution and proliferation of
herbicide-resistant weeds. Further details are available at: http://
www.agrow.com
nas-sites.org/hr-weeds-summit.
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DuPont agchem sales up 9% in
fourth quarter
DuPont notes. Growth is attributed to increased plantings and
share gains in North America, volume growth in Latin America
and success in Europe and Asia.
DuPont’s crop protection sales rose by 9% to $676 million
in the fourth quarter of 2011. The company saw growth from
all major product lines and in most regions, with the greatest
contribution coming from the US and Latin America. All regions
achieved double-digit sales growth in the second half of the
year, the company points out.
The fourth-quarter gains followed a 27% rise in crop protection
revenues in the third quarter (Agrow No 627, p 5). For the full
year, sales climbed by 16% to $2,900 million, including a 3%
decline from divested business. DuPont sold its non-mixture
diuron herbicide business to Makhteshim-Agan Industries during
the year (Agrow No 614, p 2).
Volume growth in 2011 was led by the insecticide,
chlorantraniliprole (trade-marked as Rynaxypyr), which recorded
strong gains towards the end of the year in Latin America and
Agriculture segment sales for 2011 were up by 16.8% to
$9,166 million. Volumes rose by 10%, prices by 6% and
portfolio changes added 1%. The business recorded an 18.1%
increase in pre-tax operating income (PTOI) to $1,527 million.
Excluding significant items, PTOI was up by 30.5% to $1,752
million, with margins of 19%.
DuPont’s agriculture segment results ($ million)
Year ended Dec 30th 2010 % change 2011
Sales 7,845 +16.8 9,166
PTOI
Asia. Chlorantraniliprole sales rose by 45% to $580 million,
representing about 20% of total crop protection sales. As forecast
in December, DuPont’s insecticide sales exceeded $1,000 million
in 2011, a year earlier than expected (Agrow No 631, p 3).
DuPont’s second anthranilic diamide insecticide, cyantraniliprole
(trade-marked as Cyazypyr), is due to be introduced in the
second half of this year, with a peak revenue forecast of $250-
300 million. The combined sales of chlorantraniliprole and
cyantraniliprole are expected to top $1,000 million.
DuPont’s agriculture segment, which includes agrochemicals
and seed, recorded a 7.7% rise in fourth-quarter revenues to
$1,297 million. Volumes were up by 3% and prices by 5%.
The business recorded a pre-tax operating loss of $216 million
compared with a prior year loss of $185 million. Excluding
significant items, the losses were $116 million and $135
million, respectively. The improvement is attributed to higher
sales.
Among the significant items was a $100 million charge
related to damages claims over the turf herbicide, Imprelis
(aminocyclopyrachlor). The company incurred a $75 million
charge in the third quarter. The US EPA ordered a halt to
Imprelis sales last August after widespread damage reports
(Agrow No 622, p 16).
Pioneer . . .
Fourth-quarter sales by DuPont seed subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred
International rose by 7% to $621 million, which was partly
due to an “exceptional Latin America summer season”, the
company says. Latin American seed sales in the second half of
the year were up by more than 40%, driven by over 55% growth
in summer maize seed sales in Brazil. The business also saw
growth in the Philippines and Indonesia in the fourth quarter,
reflecting improved weather conditions and increased plantings.
Full-year seed sales grew by 17% to $6,300 million, along
with higher earnings and margins. The sales growth was well
balanced between North America and international operations,
1 1,293 +18.1 1,527
Fourth quarter
Sales 1,204 + 7.7 1,297
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United Phosphorus posts 63% Q3
sales spurt
United Phosphorus recorded an increase of 63.1% in
agrochemical sales to Rs 17,013 million ($333 million at the
current rate) in its third quarter ended December 31st 2011.
Agrochemicals accounted for some 91% of the company's
total sales of Rs 18,717 million ($367 million), which grew by
57.4%. Domestic sales accounted for a fifth of total revenues.
Profit after tax on all sales was up by 62.8% to Rs 1,340 million
($26 million).
Nine-month agrochemical sales grew by 43.7% to Rs 48,268
million ($946 million). Agrochemicals accounted for some 89%
of total sales of Rs 54,148 million ($1,061 million), which grew
by 43.7%. Profit after tax on all sales was up by 9.2% to Rs
3,725 million ($73 million). Domestic sales accounted for 27%
of total nine-month revenues. North America made up 21%,
Europe for 15% and the rest of the world accounted for the
remaining 37%.
United Phosphorus recorded an agrochemical sales increase of
9% to Rs 52,080 million ($1,020 million) in the financial year
ended March 31st 2011 (Agrow No 616, p 3).
Rallis’ Q3 sales up 19%
Rallis India recorded an 18.6% increase in revenues to Rs
3,178.6 million ($62.3 million at the current rate) in its third
quarter ended December 31st 2011. Sales were boosted by the
acquisition of the Indian agricultural biotechnology company,
Metahelix Life Sciences, in December 2010 (Agrow No 606,
p 5). Hence, they are not comparable with the results of the
previous year, the company says.
Net profit for the quarter, however, fell by over 77% to Rs 76.6
million. Profit calculations included a non-recurring charge of Rs
242.4 million on account of costs relating to the shutdown of its
manufacturing facility at Turbhe and a net foreign exchange loss
of Rs 82.1 million.
Nine-month revenues rose by over a quarter to Rs 10,395.1
million. Net profit was down by 16.7% to Rs 893 million.
The company says that farm productivity was impacted despite
increased acreages for wheat and rice because of erratic
monsoon rainfall.
Rallis India’s results (Rs million)
Qtr ended
December 31st
2010 ($ million) 1 % change 2011 ($ million) 1
Sales 2,680.5 (52.5) +18.6 3,178.6 (62.3)
Net profit
Nine months
336.9 (6.6) –77.3 76.6 (1.5)
Sales 8,272.1 (162.1) +25.7 10,395.1 (203.6)
Net profit
1 at the current rate.
1,072.3 (21.0) –16.7 893.0 (17.5)
Cheminova’s 2011 revenues up
10%
Cheminova has recorded revenues of just under DKK 5,800
million ($1,010 million at the current rate) in 2011, reveal
unaudited preliminary figures. That translates into an increase of
10.4% on the previous year (Agrow No 613, pp 4-5). Earnings
before interest and tax (EBIT) touched DKK 320 million ($56
million), while the EBITDA margin was around 8.5%.
The results are in line with its previously forecast revenues of
DKK 5,800 million, an EBITDA margin of 8-10% and EBIT in
the range of DKK 300-400 million ($52-70 million – Agrow
No 628, p 5). The only deviation was in the cash flow from
operating activities of approximately DKK 180 million ($31
million), which is lower than the expectation of over DKK 336
million ($59 million).
The company highlights problems such as a serious drought
in Texas, considerable difficulties experienced by German
subsidiary Stähler, and negative currency effects. But earnings
received a boost from positive developments in Latin America
towards the end of the year. Higher receivables negatively
affected the cash flow from operating activities. Cheminova’s
results for 2011 and guidance for 2012 are due to be issued on
March 14th.
Excel Crop Care up 8% in Q3
Indian agrochemical company Excel Crop Care (Mumbai) was
able to stem the decline suffered in the first two quarters of its
current fiscal year by recording an 8.4% rise in revenues to Rs
1,669.8 million ($32.7 million at the current rate) in its third
quarter ended December 31st 2011. The company was forced
to suspend production and sales of the insecticide/acaricide,
endosulfan, by an Indian Supreme Court ruling in May (Agrow
No 616, p 23). The active ingredient normally accounted for
a third of sales and the loss of the endosulfan business is
adversely impacting performance, the company says. After a
Court order in September allowing the export of existing stock of
the active ingredient (Agrow No 626, p 23), Excel was able to
export 737 tonnes, worth Rs 203.2 million ($4 million), in its
third quarter.
Net profit, however, fell by 85.4% to Rs 10.9 million
($200,000). Excel continues to maintain a provision of Rs 163
million ($3.2 million) for inventory items related to endosulfan.
Nine-month sales were down 14.3% to Rs 5,182.2 million
($101.5 million), while net profit dropped by almost two-thirds
to Rs 157 million ($3.1 million).
Excel will export 416 kilolitres of formulated product, worth
about Rs 7,200 million ($141 million), in the current quarter
following a Court ruling in December allowing the export of
existing stock of endosulfan formulations held by manufacturers
(Agrow No 631, p 19). To the extent export orders are received
in future, the remaining stock of formulations will be exported,
the company says.
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Industry PRODUCTS deals NEWS IN BRIEF mooted for EU GM
crop bans
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The latest version of proposals to allow national bans on the
cultivation EUROPE of EU-approved NEWS ROUND-UP genetically modified crops suggests
that deals could be reached with companies to exclude countries
(DG SANCO) spokesperson said that the proposed rules would
avoid current COMPANIES “difficulties” Products NEWS such IN as BRIEF France’s plan to reinstate
its ban on Monsanto’s Products MON810 maize (see this issue, p19).
At a Commission briefing, the spokesperson was quizzed on
indications that COMPANIES the French NEWS government IN BRIEF plans to delay its
notification PRODUCTS of scientific NEWS evidence, IN BRIEF so that the Commission
cannot reach COMPANIES a decision NEWS within IN the BRIEF prescribed time period.
from their marketing plans. A compromise proposal, drawn up
by the Danish EU Presidency, also seeks to broaden the range
of environmental reasons that member states could invoke for
restricting AMERICAS GM crop NEWS cultivation. ROUND-UP
While not willing PRODUCTS to comment NEWS IN on BRIEF the French timing, the
spokesperson acknowledged that the analysis of scientific
evidence by EUROPE
COMPANIES the European NEWS
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IN Safety BRIEFAuthority
(EFSA) takes
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time. Nevertheless, he stressed that France must provide new
The Danish officials are seeking to break the stalemate on the
issue that has persisted since the European Commission first
unveiled its proposals in 2010. Several EU member states
are concerned AUSTRALASIA that NEWS allowing IN BRIEF countries to block cultivation of a
GM line, even though it has been approved at EU level, would
conflict with EU and international free-trade rules. The latest
compromise has been presented to the ad-hoc working group
on GMOs, which met throughout last year to consider detailed
PEOPLE
issues raised by member states (Agrow No 625, p 20).
One suggestion in the compromise is to introduce a
procedure
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whereby member states can seek a deal with the
company applying for cultivation approval, reports Agrow’s
sister publication, Agra Europe. Such a deal would involve
the applicant agreeing that the member state could refuse
permission for the GM line to be cultivated on part or all or their
scientific data to support its claim and pointed out that the
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information provided COMPANIES NEWS
to justify NEWS IN BRIEF IN its BRIEF
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rejected by the EFSA.
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herbicide-tolerant A5547-
127 (LibertyLink), ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS DuPont ROUND-UP seed NEWS subsidiary IN BRIEF Pioneer Hi-Bred
territory. COMPANIES If no agreement NEWS IN could BRIEFbe
reached, the application
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which has to reach a qualified majority to accept or reject EU-
International’s AMERICAS dual herbicide-tolerant NEWS IN BRIEF 356043 (Optimum GAT),
and Monsanto’s
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approval for ASIA/AFRICA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA Monsanto’s glyphosate-tolerant NEWS NEWS ROUND-UP IN BRIEF 40-3-2 (Roundup
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would tend to revert back to EU-wide decision-making, when the
original aim was to allow more national freedom.
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original list of permitted reasons for restricting the cultivation
of EU-approved crops. The Commission had originally stated
that environmental and health reasons could not be used
because AMERICAS these are NEWS assessed IN BRIEF as part of the original EU approval.
However, the Danish compromise is more in line with the one
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voted through by the European Parliament last year (Agrow
No 620, p 7). Additional criteria would include environmental
Ready).
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EU Ministers. ASIA/AFRICA PRODUCTS ASIA/AUSTRALASIA
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opinion” outcome, the turnaround time of under two months was
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to Ministers
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months, with Ministers then having up to a
further three EUROPE months to decide.
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risks and socio-economic concerns, such as the impact on local
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biodiversity or agricultural practices, a lack of data on potential
negative impacts, impractical or costly co-existence measures,
and the need to ensure seed purity. However, it also states
that restrictions should not prevent research, provided that all
necessary PEOPLE safety measures are taken.
While the Parliament completed its first reading of the proposals
last year, EU Ministers have yet to do so. A first-reading
agreement among the member state representatives is required
before MEETING the legislative process can proceed.
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p 8). EU member ASIA/AUSTRALASIA states with a NEWS minimum IN BRIEF planted area of 1,000
Separately, Commission officials have highlighted the
ha of individual PRODUCTS crops will NEWS produce IN BRIEF area data every five years,
importance of progress on the issue and stressed that they want
the regulation to be adopted as soon as possible. Speaking
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starting this PEOPLE
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EU targets extra ais for water
quality rules
The European Commission has proposed the addition of six
agrochemical active ingredients and one non-crop biocide to
chemicals that are subject to water pollution controls. The
pesticides are: the herbicides, aclonifen and bifenox; the
insecticide, cypermethrin; the acaricide, dicofol; the insecticide,
heptachlor; and the fungicide, quinoxyfen. The biocide is the
insecticide/acaricide, dichlorvos. The move follows a review
of some 2,000 chemicals to see if they should be included in
those regulated by the EU water framework Directive (2000/60 –
Agrow No 603, p 11).
The ais are proposed as “priority substances”, which would
make them subject to maximum concentration levels in water.
Three of the ais, dicofol, quinoxyfen and heptachlor, are
proposed as “priority hazardous substances”, which would
place them under stronger measures to phase them out or stop
releases to water within 20 years.
Of the three, only quinoxyfen is approved in the EU. Its
use was authorised under the EU agrochemical registration
Directive (91/414) in 2004 and is used mainly on cereals and
grapevines. Dicofol has already been phased out, following a
decision in 2008 against re-registration, but there may possibly
be some residual use, the Commission says. Heptachlor has
not been marketed in the EU for many years and is covered by
international agreements that ban persistent organic pollutants
(POPs). However, secondary emissions to water are possible, the
Commission notes.
EU agrochemical approval was granted to aclonifen and
bifenox in 2009, and cypermethrin in 2006. An application for
dichlorvos approval under the EU biocidal products Directive
(98/8) is currently under assessment. The ai failed to gain
agrochemical re-registration in 2007.
The Commission also proposes to change the classification of
some ais already on the priority substances list. This includes
the herbicide, trifluralin, which would become a priority
hazardous substance. Decisions against re-registration of the
ai were taken in 2007 and 2010, although Dow AgroSciences
continues to pursue legal action to reinstate its approval (Agrow
No 630, p 7).
The review focused on substances that had been identified
under agrochemical or biocide legislation as being of potential
concern to the aquatic environment. The designation of priority
substances was “based essentially on their hazardousness and
their presence in the aquatic environment”, the Commission
says.
In addition to the seven proposed pesticides, two more
biocides, the preservative, terbutryn, and the antifouling agent,
cybutryne, together with a further six industrial chemicals and
pharmaceuticals are also proposed as new additions. “The 15
additional chemicals need to be monitored and controlled to
ensure they don’t pose a risk to the environment or human
health,” says EU Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik.
The Directive already covers a total of 33 substances, including
11 pesticides.
The proposals require approval from EU Ministers and the
European Parliament. The changes would take the form
of amendments to both Directive 2000/60 and the EU
environmental quality standards (EQS) in water Directive
2008/105, which sets the concentration limits for specific
substances. EU member states would have to ensure that
the additional ais are monitored and their EQS met by 2021.
However, there are provisions under Directive 2000/60 for
extending this period in specific cases.
Actual measures for meeting the EQS are not included in the
proposal, as it is expected that existing agrochemical legislation
will reduce the emissions of many of the ais. Inclusion of the
ais in the list means that monitoring data would be obtained
to provide feedback on the effectiveness of existing legislation,
the Commission notes. However, if additional local or national
measures prove insufficient to meet the EQS, then additional EU
measures may need to be considered, it adds.
“watch list” . . .
Other elements of the proposal include a system for gathering
information on other pollutants that might need to be controlled
in the future at EU level. The establishment of a “watch list”
would aim to gather monitoring data EU-wide over one or two
years for substances of possible concern. The information would
support decision-making on the risks posed by these substances
and would be used in future reviews of the priority substances
list. No EU standards or phase-out obligations would apply to
substances on the watch list, and neither would they have to be
monitored as widely as priority substances.
The Commission also proposes improvements to the monitoring
and reporting of chemical pollutants in water. In particular, there
are provisions for coping with persistent, bioaccumulative and
toxic substances that may remain in the environment for long
periods, even though their use in the EU has ceased. In cases
where there is little a member state can do to speed up the
reduction in concentrations of these substances, the proposal
would allow them to reduce the monitoring effort to less
frequent periods.
impact assessment . . .
An impact assessment carried out when drawing up the proposals
concluded that the expected benefits, in terms of water quality
and environmental and human health, would outweigh the costs,
the Commission maintains. As no specific reduction actions
are proposed, member states can select the most cost-effective
measures that best fit their local situation. Since most of the ais
would not be designated priority hazardous substances, there would
be no need to find substitutes for them. Those designated priority
hazardous substances “are already, or will probably soon become,
subject to controls under other legislation”, the Commission states.
In most cases, substitutes are likely to be developed within the 20year
phase-out timeframe. While there would be some additional
monitoring costs, they would be “minor in relation to the existing
overall monitoring costs”, the Commission believes.
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substances is governed by
Regulation 689/2008. ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS ROUND-UP Ais added NEWS to its IN BRIEF Annex are banned or
restricted in AMERICAS the EU and NEWS therefore IN BRIEF subject to export notification
procedures or
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EUROPE prior informed NEWS IN consent BRIEF (PIC) rules. The scheduled
inclusion of ASIA/AFRICA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA the pesticide NEWS ais had NEWS ROUND-UP been IN triggered BRIEF by the original
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Commission decisions in 2008 and 2009 against re-registration
PEOPLE MEETING
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www.agrow.com temporarily withdrawn AFRICA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS from IN the BRIEF NEWS
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However, the formal
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addition was AMERICAS PEOPLE suspended NEWS until IN a decision BRIEF was reached on the
www.agrow.com re-applications COMPANIES for approval. NEWS Six IN of BRIEF
the ais received a second
COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF
Commission MEETING decision in 2011 against renewal, and the reapplication
for
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PEOPLE the seventh, cyanamide, was withdrawn.
www.agrow.com COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF
While nearly ASIA/AFRICA PRODUCTS ASIA/AUSTRALASIA
PRODUCTS all pesticide NEWS NEWS uses IN of NEWS IN BRIEF
cyanamide BRIEF IN BRIEFare
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MEETING PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF
application for biocide use is still under evaluation under the
www.agrow.com PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF
EU biocidal products PRODUCTS Directive NEWS IN (98/8), BRIEF the Commission notes.
Therefore, any MEETING
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decision on this EUROPE application is taken, it adds.
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n EU to amend use conditions for metazachlor
AMERICAS MEETING
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herbicide, metazachlor, AMERICAS NEWS have IN been BRIEF accepted by the EU Standing
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Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health. The active
www.agrow.com ingredient originally
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year on the same ASIA/AUSTRALASIA field (Agrow No NEWS 559, IN p BRIEF 9). BASF subsequently
applied for an ASIA/AUSTRALASIA amendment allowing NEWS more IN BRIEF frequent use without
exceeding the PRODUCTS 1 kg limit NEWS over IN three BRIEF years. The assessment of the
application by PEOPLE
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the UK, as rapporteur member state, found that
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the European PEOPLE Commission notes. It will now amend the ai’s EU
approval entry EUROPE to read: NEWS “applications IN BRIEF shall be limited to a total
dose of not more than 1.0 kg metazachlor/ha in a three-year
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have been PEOPLE set ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA for NEWS four more ROUND-UP new NEWS active IN ingredients. BRIEF EU member
states have until AMERICAS April 2nd NEWS to IN comment BRIEF on: Bayer CropScience’s
herbicide, tembotrione;
PEOPLE MEETING AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF
EUROPE NEWS Kureha’s IN BRIEF fungicide, ipconazole;
Biological Crop ASIA/AUSTRALASIA Protection’s insecticide/acaricide, NEWS IN BRIEF
MEETING
ASIA/AFRICA NEWS ROUND-UP maltodextrin;
and DuPont’s insecticide, chlorantraniliprole. The DARs were
PEOPLE MEETING
circulated at ASIA/AUSTRALASIA the beginning of this NEWS month. IN BRIEF
www.agrow.com AFRICA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEF NEWS IN BRIEF
The ais join MEETING 16 others, for which deadlines have been set in
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recent months PEOPLE NEWS IN BRIEF
in a bid to speed up the registration process
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COMPANIES COMPANIES
(Agrow No 630,
COMPANIES NEWS NEWS
COMPANIES p 7). They
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IN been
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MEETING
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PEOPLE COMPANIES years, NEWS mainly IN due BRIEF to the time needed to
PEOPLE
www.agrow.com request, submit COMPANIES and evaluate NEWS additional IN BRIEF data. The application
dossiers PRODUCTS were ASIA/AFRICA PRODUCTS ASIA/AUSTRALASIA
PRODUCTS declared NEWS complete NEWS IN NEWS BRIEF IN NEWS IN BRIEF
in BRIEF 2006 IN BRIEF for tembotrione, in
MEETING PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF
2007 for chlorantraniliprole, and in 2008 for ipconazole and
www.agrow.com WORLD PRODUCTS NEWS IN NEWS BRIEFIN
BRIEF
maltodextrin. PRODUCTS Three-year NEWS national IN BRIEF provisional approvals have
already had to MEETING
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be extended for tembotrione, ipconazole and
chlorantraniliprole.
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n EFSA seeks views on tests for agchem dietary risks
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The European Food Safety Authority
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dietary exposure to pesticide residues. The document considers
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Denmark COMPANIES to impose NEWS IN BRIEF new tax on
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Denmark is PRODUCTS considering NEWS the IN introduction BRIEF
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF of a new pesticide
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tax on farmers AMERICAS to “encourage” NEWS IN BRIEF them to use fewer and
less harmful EUROPE pesticides. NEWS The IN BRIEF
COMPANIES NEWS Ministry IN BRIEF of Environment
has prepared ASIA/AUSTRALASIA/WORLD ASIA/AUSTRALASIA the proposal with NEWS the IN intention NEWS BRIEFIN
BRIEF of cutting
applications AMERICAS
EUROPE by a third. NEWS
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IN
BRIEF “intelligent” BRIEF tax would make
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the most harmful ASIA/AUSTRALASIA PEOPLE
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pesticides NEWS
the most IN ROUND-UP BRIEF expensive, and
the least harmful PRODUCTS ones NEWS the cheapest. IN BRIEF Some insecticides
could increase
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in cost
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from
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60 ($10) per ha to DKK
400 ($70) ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA per ha, NEWS while ROUND-UP other NEWS “environmentally IN BRIEF friendly”
technologies AMERICAS would become NEWS IN cheaper. ©Informa BRIEFUK
Ltd The 2009country’s
food
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institute EUROPE NEWS has calculated IN BRIEF the business impact
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individual
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holdings would be “limited”.
PEOPLE MEETING
A fact sheet ASIA/AUSTRALASIA published by the NEWS Ministry IN BRIEF
www.agrow.com AFRICA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEF NEWS IN BRIEF provides estimates
of the impact MEETING of the tax on various ©Informa UK kinds Ltd 2009 of farmers. The
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calculations PEOPLE NEWS IN BRIEF
have a proviso in the assumption that farmers
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burdensome
MEETING
PEOPLE COMPANIES pesticides. NEWS For a IN typical BRIEFpotato
grower, the costs
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would likely COMPANIES increase by NEWS DKK IN 140 BRIEF ($24) per ha. In the case
of high-value ASIA/AFRICA PRODUCTS ASIA/AUSTRALASIA
PRODUCTS crops, cost NEWS NEWS per IN ha ©Informa NEWS IN BRIEF
for BRIEF IN farmers UK Ltd BRIEF 2009 of blackcurrants
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per ha, while PRODUCTS that for strawberries NEWS IN BRIEF and apples would decrease
by DKK 2,000 MEETING
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($348) to DKK 11,000 ($1,916) per ha and
DKK 17,000 EUROPE ($2,961) per ha, respectively.
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techniques
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that allow
IN NEWS
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are simpler, but ASIA/AUSTRALASIA only estimate exposure NEWS IN for BRIEF one consumer. The
EFSA has been ASIA/AUSTRALASIA working to improve NEWS the IN draft BRIEF over the last year,
after respondents PRODUCTS to the NEWS first consultation IN BRIEF in 2010 called for
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n Monsanto not to sell GM seed in France
AMERICAS MEETING
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Monsanto has declared that it does
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not intend to market
more practical PEOPLE PEOPLE
PEOPLE
and prescriptive guidance (Agrow No 605, p 9).
Comments are requested by March 7th. The document is on the
PEOPLE ©Informa UK Ltd 2009
EFSA’s website PEOPLE at: http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/consultations/
call/120125.htm. EUROPE NEWS IN BRIEF
genetically modified AMERICAS insect-resistant NEWS IN BRIEFMON810
maize seed
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in France so long as the country does not have a regulatory
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approach based
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on science,
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reports
IN NEWS
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French
IN
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newswire Agrisalon.
It will, however, continue to offer non-GM IN BRIEF seed to French
n Spanish MEETING MEETING
MEETING winter cereal area to inch higher
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Early official MEETING estimates show Spanish small-grain cereal farmers
planting a similar
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area is to rise AMERICAS by 0.6% NEWS on a like-for-like IN BRIEF basis compared with
www.agrow.com www.agrow.com 2011. The area for all wheat is expected to rise by 2% to just
www.agrow.com over 2 million ha. That includes the soft wheat area dipping by
www.agrow.com 1% to just under 1.6 million ha, while the durum wheat acreage
is to climb by ASIA/AUSTRALASIA almost 15% to some NEWS 437,100 IN BRIEFha.
The “very
farmers. France ASIA/AUSTRALASIA banned cultivation NEWS of IN MON810 BRIEF in 2008 (Agrow
No 535, p 11). ASIA/AUSTRALASIA But last November, NEWS the IN French BRIEF council of
state, the Conseil PRODUCTS d’État, NEWS cancelled IN BRIEF the order of the Minister of
Agriculture and PEOPLE
PEOPLE
Fisheries (Agrow No 630, p 11). The Minister
of Ecology has reportedly cautioned farmers against buying
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seed of the GM PEOPLE line as the country is going Ltd
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soon. Meanwhile, EUROPE a group NEWS of IN activists BRIEF entered a Monsanto site
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near Carcassonne in France’s Aude ©Informa region UK Ltd 2009 and emptied bags
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containing MON810 MEETING MEETINGseed.
preliminary” figures predict a 2% dip in the oat area to 479,800
ha, and rises of 1% for rye (150,600 ha) and over 2% for
triticale (102,400 ha). The figures for barley only compare sixrow
barley, with the area falling by 3.2%. The total barley area
PEOPLE
for last year was expected to have reached almost 2.9 million ha
(Agrow No 615, p 14).
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n Portuguese MEETING agchem sales up 7% in 2011
The Portuguese AMERICAS agrochemical NEWS IN market BRIEFrose
by 6.6% in 2011
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to some €130.6 million ($166.9 million at the current rate),
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according to official estimates from Statistics Portugal. That
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would include a 5% increase in volumes and 1.6% higher
prices. The national ASIA/AUSTRALASIA agrochemical NEWS association, IN BRIEF the Anipla, has
Visit Agrow’s website at
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yet to issue its market estimate. It reported almost €119 million
($152 million) in sales for 2010 among its members (Agrow No
611, p 14).
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US EPA PRODUCTS plans NEWS registration IN BRIEF review US seizes imported orange juice
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has seized imports
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of orange juice from Brazil and Canada following the detection
The US EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs plans to consult
registrants and EUROPE
COMPANIES
other NEWS stakeholders
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early in the registration
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review process. The move is aimed at improving label clarity
and reducing regulatory burdens on industry by refining data
EUROPE COMPANIES NEWS NEWS IN BRIEF IN BRIEF
requirements. PRODUCTS The OPP NEWS plans IN to BRIEF bring so-called “SMART
meetings” into the process within the next 12 months. These
meetings were AMERICAS EUROPE COMPANIES employed NEWS NEWS NEWS during IN IN BRIEF IN BRIEF the BRIEF
COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF
tolerance reassessment
and re-registration PRODUCTS era to NEWS ensure IN BRIEF the EPA was using accurate
application AGBIOTECH/RESEARCH AMERICAS
rates in its risk assessments.
EUROPE Products
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The EPA has PRODUCTS discussed NEWS reintroducing IN BRIEF
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SMART meetings with
various stakeholders ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS and IN advisory BRIEFNEWS
committees,
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Pesticide Program EUROPE Dialogue NEWS IN Committee. BRIEF It plans to pilot different
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approaches ASIA/AUSTRALASIA/WORLD ASIA/AUSTRALASIA to decide how to conduct NEWS IN such NEWS BRIEF meetings IN BRIEF in the most
efficient manner. AMERICAS
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IN were IN
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progress report
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on last
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year’s
IN
call
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by President Barack Obama for
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regulatory reforms. PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF
of the fungicide, carbendazim. The FDA began testing imported
juice in January after it was notified by a juice company in
late December of the detection of the fungicide, which is not
permitted in US juice (Agrow No 632, p 12).
By February 2nd, the FDA had found at least 10 ppb of
carbendazim in 20 shipments of orange juice. Nine of the
shipments were from Canada and 11 were from Brazil. The
agency detained or refused all of the shipments. The FDA has
collected samples from 86 shipments AGROW | of No orange 564 | juice. March Of 27th the 66 2009
for which analysis had been completed, 46 tested negative for
carbendazim. Most came from Mexico (21) and Canada (14),
with two each from Costa Rica, Belize, Honduras and Trinidad
and Tobago, and one each from Brazil, Lebanon and Turkey.
Testing of 14 samples of juice collected from domestic
manufacturers found that five had no measurable residues of
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Integrated pesticide PEOPLE registration reviews were listed among 19
initiatives ear-marked ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS for ROUND-UP “longer
NEWS
term”
IN BRIEF
action in the EPA’s
plans last August
AMERICAS
(Agrow
NEWS
No 623,
IN BRIEF
p 13). Near-term examples of
PEOPLE MEETING AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF
“chemical bundling” EUROPE NEWS include IN initiating BRIEF registration reviews for
neonicotinoid ASIA/AFRICA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA
insecticides NEWS NEWS
and ROUND-UP IN BRIEF
sulfonylurea herbicides in the
next 12-18 PEOPLE months, MEETINGthe
EPA notes.
carbendazim and nine contained between 13 ppb and 36 ppb
of the fungicide. The EPA has determined that carbendazim
residues lower than 80 ppb do not pose a health risk, the FDA
points out. It believes that no action is needed to remove the
product from the market.
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reducing the
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AMERICAS use of experimental animals in the testing of
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pesticides and other chemicals. It aims to make greater use of
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computational
COMPANIES
and high-throughput
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screening methods with
MEETING
a view to increasing PEOPLE COMPANIES the efficiency NEWS IN BRIEF
PEOPLE
of its endocrine disruptor
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screening programme (Agrow No 631, p 12). The development
of a process
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PRODUCTS NEWS
for validating NEWS NEWS IN
these IN
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“Tox BRIEF BRIEF IN BRIEF
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carried out this year, with a peer review expected to take place
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in 2013, the PRODUCTS EPA states NEWS in its IN progress BRIEF report.
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Another priority area is the online electronic reporting of health
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and safety data EUROPE PEOPLE NEWS
for pesticides NEWS IN BRIEF
www.agrow.com EUROPE NEWS IN BRIEF and BRIEF other chemicals. The EPA
implemented EUROPE an electronic NEWS IN submission BRIEF option covering all
significant aspects EUROPE of NEWS the pesticide IN BRIEF
www.agrow.com registration and review
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US/Canada seek joint label
expansions
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The US and Canadian pesticide regulatory authorities aim to
encourage the joint submission ©Informa of use UK expansions Ltd 2009 to the two
countries with a view to fully aligning labels with minor-crop
uses. The proposal is included in a draft work plan drawn up
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by the US-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council. The Council
was formed last year to increase regulatory transparency and
co-ordination between the two countries. It aims to build on the
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work conducted by the NAFTA Technical Working Group over
the past 20 years by further aligning product approvals and
maximum residue limits (MRLs). ©Informa UK Ltd 2009
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The work plan calls for the US EPA and the Canadian Pest
Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) to conduct outreach with
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n First glyphosate resistance in western Canada
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Canadian government ASIA/AUSTRALASIA COMPANIES NEWS IN NEWS
ASIA/AUSTRALASIA researchers NEWS BRIEF IN
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IN confirmed BRIEF the presence
of the first glyphosate-resistant weeds in western Canada. The
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Agriculture and ASIA/AUSTRALASIA Agri-Food Canada NEWS scientists IN BRIEF found glyphosateresistant
kochia PRODUCTS (Kochia NEWS scoparia) IN BRIEF in three fields in southern
Alberta last year. PEOPLE The two other weed species with resistance
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to glyphosate PEOPLE in Canada were found in Ontario. They were
giant ragweed PEOPLE (Ambrosia ©Informa trifida) UK in Ltd 2009 and Canada fleabane
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(Conyza canadensis) in 2011. Monsanto says that it has worked
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with the researchers on the resistance findings and will develop
registrants to discuss the joint submission of use expansions. It
seeks the submission of a pilot application including a significant
number of minor uses with domestic ©Informa and UK import Ltd 2009 MRLs/tolerances.
The EPA and the PMRA would jointly review the pilot submission
over a negotiated timeline of 15 months. The work plan calls for
the initiation of discussions on the development of an incentive
process for the joint submission of use expansions within 6-12
months. The feasibility of adopting such joint submissions would
be reviewed after 18 months.
The initiative also calls for the development of joint guidelines
for residue trials and the alignment of data collection procedures
recommendations MEETING
for affected farmers. It stresses that the
MEETING
kochia resistance was detected in “chem-fallow” www.agrow.com fields rather 1
MEETING
than in glyphosate-tolerant MEETING Roundup Ready crops.
for those trials. Ultimately, each country could accept the other’s
reviews, which would result in concurrent, aligned decisions. The
draft work plan is open to public until January 25th 2013.
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South American region seeks
flexible agchem approvals
The South American customs union the Andean Community’s
(CAN) pesticides committee, the Cotasa de Plaguicidas, wants
to “rationalise and make flexible” the harmonised agricultural
use pesticide agrochemical registration process. CAN member
state representatives from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
met late last year at the 120th Cotasa reunion, and produced
three joint initiatives.
They agreed to adopt amendments to Resolution 630
covering the data required from an applicant for a product
registration, and what modifications a registrant can request
to a registration. Resolution 630 of 2002, along with Decision
436 of 1998, set the harmonised pesticide registration regime
in the union (Agrow No 422, p 21).
The amendments would establish requirements for the
following policies: the processing of new authorisations of
an approved pesticide under a different name; defining the
conditions for adding manufacturers, formulators and the
countries of origin for an approved pesticide; and regulating
the requirements for raising the application rate of an approved
pesticide and re-setting its toxicological category.
The first of those is designed to allow the agrochemical
industry to develop strategies for supplying the same product
with different names in separate niche markets and different
trading conditions, while the second would aim to facilitate
and expand product supplies in domestic markets, while
responding to moves in international markets, the Cotasa
explains.
The meeting also considered the flexibility in the requirements
for the registration of active ingredients that are under patent
or data protection.
The Cotasa called on the secretary general of the CAN to
process the amendments of the Resolution and Decision as
soon as possible to improve member states’ competitiveness.
It further called for member states to evaluate the possibility
of establishing harmonised procedures and requirements
for the registration and control of plant growth regulators
and adjuvants, including their import, export, manufacture,
formulation, packaging and distribution.
The meeting supported three proposals, which it decided “to
move on in the short to medium term”. The first concerns
a project for setting maximum residue limits (MRLs) on
four “low toxicity” pesticides. The Cotasa hopes to gain the
support of the WTO and the USDA on the project, which covers
Syngenta’s fungicide, azoxystrobin, and three insecticides:
DuPont’s chlorantraniliprole, Dow AgroSciences’ spinetoram
and Sumitomo Chemical’s pyriproxyfen.
It would not only grant access to significant international
resources but also lead to the inclusion of Codex Alimentarius
MRLs that can subsequently be extrapolated to more than 20
tropical plants of the region, facilitating exports particularly to
the EU, the Conasa notes.
The second supported proposal was to take part in the second
global minor-use summit (GMUS-II), which takes place this
month and to which Colombia was invited as a member of the
advisory committee. The summit is of particular significance
to CAN member states in facilitating internationally recognised
approvals of products for use on minor crops. The last adopted
proposal was for the creation of a network of laboratories across
the region for the control of pesticide formulations and residues.
Earlier in 2011, the secretary general of the CAN launched a
project in association with the FAO to improve the control of
pesticide use in the region. The secretary general accepted that
highly toxic pesticides continued to be used in the region. The
project was scheduled to last two years, and would include the
establishment of the regional laboratory network among other
capacity raising goals of a technically improved registration
system and post-registration controls.
INTELLIGENCE
South/Central Am agchem sales
up 30% in 2011
The agrochemical market for South and Central America rose
by 29.7% in 2011 to $10,875 million, industry association
CropLife Latin America reports. The association cites preliminary
figures from market research company Phillips McDougal and
includes the sales from all of its national affiliate markets except
Mexico. After currency effects and inflation are removed, the
adjusted growth was of some 15.3%.
Brazil accounted for over 70% of sales at just over $7,800
million, below mooted expectations in the country of breaching
the Dow’s $8,000 million new mark. sulfoximine The next largest compound
market, Argentina,
saw estimated sales of $1,271 million. That would be heavily
Recent published patents from Dow AgroSciences divulge activity
down around on the a certain estimated N-sulfoximine 2010 national compound market, with insecticidal which was
reported properties. to have The compound, risen by 28% according in 2010 to the to claims over $1,600 from US million
(Agrow patent No No 615, 20100152245A1 p 24). entitled “Insecticidal N-substituted
(6-haloalkylpyridin-3-yl)-alkyl sulfoximines” of June 2010, describes
The the figures general show structure three of other the active South ingredient American and nations the preferences saw sales
regarding its radicals.
above $100 million in 2011, namely Colombia with $374
million, The preferred Chile at structure $200 million, is: and Ecuador ($168 million).
The next largest markets were closely bunched with Venezuela
at $81 million, followed by Bolivia ($75 million) and Peru ($72
million), while the combined sales in the Central American
states such as Guatemala and Costa Rica amounted to $440
million.
The overall rise for the area was the largest regional increase
in the world, the report notes. Strong economies, favourable
weather conditions, the strengthening of the Brazilian currency,
and The the compound incidence is said of the to be soybean active against disease, pests frog that eye have leaf become spot
(Cercospora
resistant to
sojina),
one or more
as well
insecticides
as rising
currently
demand
on
for
the
cotton
market,
and
as it
either has a new mode of action or an atypical one. Pests targeted
sugar include cane aphids, supported plant hoppers, growth. leafhoppers, and whiteflies when
used on food and non-food crops.
For more details, log in to Agrow INTELLIGENCE
Intelligence and read through
profile No. P0232.
For enquiries, please email the Agrow Intelligence editor,
Leila Nabih, at leila.nabih@informa.com.
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formulated products are growing, the Senasa says. For example,
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the need for those applying ©Informa to register UK Ltd 2009 products formulated in
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CV127 soybeans. PEOPLE The soybeans were developed in collaboration
with the Brazilian EUROPE agricultural NEWS IN research BRIEF corporation, the
Embrapa, and are due to be introduced in Brazil in the 2013/14
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season under MEETING the Cultivance brand (Agrow No 627, p 18).
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(Agrow No 624, MEETING p 17). Its decision is subject to public comment
until March 6th. AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF
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of the phenoxy COMPANIES herbicide, NEWS IN 2,4-D, BRIEFuntil
January 31st 2013.
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May 1st and August 31st, with specified restrictions. Limits
were first placed
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in 2006 because of concerns over spray drift (Agrow No 506,
p 16). WORLD The APVMA NEWS began IN BRIEF a review of the risks posed by 2,4-D
spray drift in 2010 (Agrow No 592, p 24).
n New EUROPE Zealand MEETING NEWS mulls IN BRIEF new potato insecticide
The New PRODUCTS Zealand NEWS Environmental ROUND-UPProtection
Authority (EPA)
has received an application from Cheminova to import the
insecticide, Tripsol (acrinathrin 22.5 g/litre + abamectin 12.6
www.agrow.com g/litre), for the control of potato/tomato psyllids (Bactericera
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cockerelli). The novel emulsion formulation is not registered
anywhere ASIA in NEWS the world, IN BRIEF the EPA notes. Abamectin is already
approved in New Zealand, but acrinathrin is not. Trials in
New Zealand have shown Tripsol to be more effective against
B cockerelli WORLD/AUSTRALASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA on potatoes than NEWS NEWS other IN IN BRIEF products BRIEF on the market,
Cheminova claims. Acrinathrin and abamectin are toxic to
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NEWS with NEWS IN government IN BRIEF BRIEF NEWS targets IN BRIEF stipulating that
by 2015, the PRODUCTS number of NEWS pesticide IN BRIEF companies should have been
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during 2011, and conducting what ©Informa the CCPIA UK Ltd 2009 calls “normal
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production” numbered PEOPLE only around ten each month. This
indicates that ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA only NEWS 10% ROUND-UP of registered NEWS IN manufacturers BRIEF were
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herbicide are: Zhejiang Wynca Chemical, Zhejiang Jinfanda
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Biochemical, Zhenjiang Jiangnan Chemical, Sichuan Leshan
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aquatic organisms, bees and other arthropods, but the benefits
of Tripsol use outweigh any risks, the company maintains. The
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application PEOPLE is open to public comment until March 12th.
n African Union signs ag technology access deal
The African Union Commission and the African Agricultural
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understanding MEETINGto
develop and deliver agricultural technology
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n Chinese agchem ASIA/AUSTRALASIA production NEWS up IN 22% BRIEFin
2011
to African farmers. The continent has one of the lowest levels
of farm productivity in the world as a result of the absence
of agricultural technologies to deal with pests and diseases
that face the region’s smallholder farmers, the partners say.
The Foundation works in eight sub-Sahara African countries.
Priority areas for the Foundation include addressing the
impact of climate change in agriculture; pest management;
soil management, nutrient enhancement in foods; improved
breeding methods; and mechanisation. These are addressed
through the access, development and deployment of accessible,
transferable, adaptable and proven technologies.
Chinese agrochemical PRODUCTS production NEWS IN BRIEF throughout 2011 increased by
21.5% to 2.6
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PEOPLE million tonnes, reports the Chinese commercial
information newswire,
PEOPLE
askci.com. Herbicides were the largest
category, with PEOPLE production amounting to 1.2 million tonnes
and accounting EUROPE for 44.4% NEWS of IN the BRIEF total. Insecticides made up
26.8% at 709,000 tonnes, while fungicides accounted for
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5.7% with 150,000 MEETING MEETINGtonnes.
Jiangsu province manufactured
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accurately reflect the total national output. Source: CCPIA.
The CCPIA expects global requirements for glyphosate over the
next five years to remain in the region of between 550,000
tonnes and 650,000 tonnes. As the number of manufacturers
declines, it hopes that the “blind competition” in the market
that has driven prices down will also be reduced.
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Bayer debuts fluopyram in Turkey
Bayer CropScience has debuted a fungicide formulation based
on its new active ingredient, fluopyram, in Turkey. The country
granted registration late last year, and it is the first confirmed
product approval for a fungicide based on the active ingredient.
Luna Experience (fluopyram 200 g/litre + tebuconazole 200
g/litre) is a suspension concentrate formulation for use on
nine crops, including apples for the control of scab (Venturia
inaequalis), on grapevines against powdery mildew (Uncinula
necator), cherries against brown rot (Monilinia laxa), and
tomatoes, aubergines and peppers for the control of tomato
powdery mildew (Leveillula taurica). It is safe for bees and nontarget
organisms, Bayer notes.
Fluopyram comes from the pyridylethylbenzamide family of
fungicides. It is a succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor (SDHI).
Fluopyram was developed for use on over 70 crops, and was
unveiled in 2009 (Agrow No 567, p 23). Recommended
application rates for the ai range from 0.2-0.5 litres/ha.
The US EPA has recently proposed the registration of five
fungicide products based on fluopyram, some in formulation
with other ais, including Luna Experience (Agrow No 631, p
20). The EU registration application for the new fungicide was
declared complete in 2009, and first member state approvals
were expected by 2011 for use on grapevines and strawberries
(Agrow No 567, p 23).
BASF brands new dicamba
Engenia
BASF plans to apply for US approval for a new formulation of
the herbicide, dicamba, under the Engenia brand this year. It is
intended for use on Monsanto’s genetically modified dicambatolerant
soybeans. “Engenia will be an important new tool for
soybean growers battling herbicide-resistant weeds, like Palmer
amaranth, waterhemp [both Amaranthus spp] and marestail
[Conyza canadensis],” says Paul Rea, vice-president of BASF’s
US crop protection business. Research on advances in dicamba
formulations and the use of the herbicide on dicamba-tolerant
crops was presented at the US Southern Weed Science Society
annual meeting last month.
BASF and Monsanto have been collaborating on the
development of dicamba formulations for use on GM soybeans
for the past three years. The companies entered into a licensing
agreement covering the commercialisation of the herbicides last
year (Agrow No 612, p 2).
BASF expects to receive US approval for Engenia prior to the
commercialisation of Monsanto’s Genuity Roundup Ready 2
Yield dicamba-tolerant soybeans. Its first stacks of dicamba
tolerance and glyphosate tolerance are being lined up for
on-farm testing in 2013, with a commercial launch planned
for 2014 (Agrow No 631, p 4). Monsanto is also developing
dicamba-tolerant cotton, maize and canola.
JANUARY 2011
The US Patent and Trademark Office in December published
a total of 53 patent applications from 28 different assignees,
covering genetically modified plants and methods of producing
them.
Two were for input traits, one of which, from Bayer
CropScience, concerned a chimeric gene construct conferring
resistance to several different classes of herbicides. There were
27 applications published that concerned output traits, including
15 claiming improvements to stress tolerance or increasing
yield. Methods of altering the content of GM plants accounted
for nine applications. These included a pair of filings from BASF
concerning the production of arachidonic and eicosapentaenoic
acid in plants using desaturase enzymes derived from algae.
Three applications concerned methods of altering plant
phenotypes.
A further 24 applications concerned other aspects of
biotechnology, such as newly identified promoters, expressed
sequence tags or transformation methods. The latter included
two filings from Dow AgroSciences for nanoparticle-mediated
transformation methods.
DuPont, including seed subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred
International, dominated the field with 15 applications published.
Its closest rival was Monsanto, which had six filings published.
BASF, Ceres and Dow each had three applications published.
Bayer and the US Michigan State University each had two
applications published.
To browse the complete list of selected patents, please log in at:
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US approval for TwinLink cotton
Bayer CropScience has received US EPA approval for its
genetically modified insect-resistant and herbicide-tolerant
TwinLink cotton. It is the final regulatory step for the cotton
in the US following USDA deregulation last year (Agrow No
626, p 24). TwinLink cotton expresses the Bt Cry1Ab toxin
from event T304-40 and the Cry2Ae toxin from event GHB119
for the control of lepidopteran pests such as bollworms
(Helicoverpa zea), tobacco budworms (Heliothis virescens) and
fall armyworms (Spodoptera frugiperda). It is also tolerant to the
herbicide, glufosinate-ammonium.
stacks . . .
Bayer plans to stack TwinLink with its glyphosate-tolerant GlyTol
cotton, which it introduced in the US last year (Agrow No 607,
p 24). The company Products
expects the first cotton varieties with the
stacked TwinLink and GlyTol traits to be available in the US from
2013, subject to regulatory approvals in key import countries.
TwinLink has been approved in Australia/New Zealand, Brazil
and Canada.
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combination will be the
first cotton with dual genes for herbicide tolerance and insect
resistance, Bayer points out.
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n US food-use approval for flazasulfuron
The US EPA
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proposes
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food-use approval of Ishihara
Sangyo Kaisha’s sulfonylurea herbicide, flazasulfuron. The
approval expansion would cover citrus fruit, grapevines and
sugar cane, as well as the additional non-food uses of Christmas
trees and industrial vegetation management areas. Flazasulfuron
is currently approved AMERICAS for NEWS use on ROUND-UP turf. The latest approval
decision was open to public comment until January 20th.
n US exemption for Bioworks’ biofungicide
The US EPA AUSTRALASIA has established NEWS a tolerance IN BRIEFexemption
for the
biofungicide, Trichoderma virens strain G-41, for all food
commodities. The Agency proposed the approval of two products
from biopesticide company BioWorks (Victor, New York) based
on T virens strain G41 in December (Agrow No 631, p 21).
PEOPLE
n US OKs Bayer cereal herbicide mix
Bayer CropScience has received US approval for a new cereal
herbicide based MEETING on established active ingredients. Huskie
Complete (pyrasulfotole + thiencarbazone-methyl + bromoxynil
+ mefenpyr-diethyl safener) is for the post-emergence control
of a range of grasses and broadleaf weeds in spring, winter
and durum wheat.
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company indicated last year that it was planning to combine the
maize herbicide in a cereal herbicide mixture (Agrow No 620,
p 23). Bayer PRODUCTS received US NEWS approval IN BRIEF for pyrasulfotole on cereals
in 2007 and introduced it in combination with bromoxynil as
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Huskie in 2008 (Agrow No 526, p 22).
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n Nufarm has appointed Greg Hunt as group executive, global
marketing and MEETING business Products
development. He is a former managing
director of the agribuisiness group, Elders Australia. Mr Hunt
succeeds Dale Mellody, who moves to a new executive role
covering the global supply chain and strategic procurement.
n China National
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Chemical
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Corporation
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(ChemChina) subsidiary
Makhteshim-Agan Industries (MAI) has appointed Dr Chen
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Lichtenstein as deputy chief executive officer. He joined MAI in
2006 and established its global resources division, combining
all of the group’s PRODUCTS operational NEWS activities IN BRIEFincluding
manufacturing,
supply chain, procurement and R&D. The company has also
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appointed: Dr Eli Abramov as senior vice-president of global
resources effective April 1st; and Rony Patishi-Chillim as senior
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Chillim joined MAI as head of global corporate communication
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n The US pesticide development company, Vestaron
(Kalamazoo, Michigan), has promoted Dr Robert Kennedy to the
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newly created position of chief scientific officer. Dr Kennedy has
been vice-president ASIA NEWS of research IN BRIEFat
Vestaron for the past three
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n BASF has WORLD/AUSTRALASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA appointed Products
Chad Reese NEWS NEWS as IN North IN BRIEF BRIEF America product
manager for its insecticide/termiticide, Termidor (fipronil). Mr
Reese was previously COMPANIES with Nestlé NEWS Purina IN BRIEF PetCare.
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n French genomics
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company Cellectis’
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subsidiary, Cellectis
Plant Dow’s Sciences new (CPS sulfoximine – Saint Paul, Minnesota), compound has appointed Dr
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Luc Recent Mathis published as chief patents executive from officer. Dow AgroSciences He was previously divulge activity head of
development around a certain at CPS’ N-sulfoximine
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n patent US President No 20100152245A1 Barack Obama entitled has “Insecticidal nominated N-substituted Jim Jones as
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and regarding Pollution its Prevention radicals. PRODUCTS (OCSPP), NEWS which IN BRIEF oversees pesticide
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New model confirms refuge values
Researchers from the US University of Arizona (Tucson) and
others have developed a new method to assess the effectiveness
of refuge strategies in delaying the emergence of pests resistant
to insecticides. The method is based on results of an eightyear,
large-scale study involving 84 cotton fields in central
Arizona and takes into account variations in surrounding crop
types and distances between treated fields and refuge areas.
The study looked at the effects of the insecticide, pyriproxyfen,
on whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci). Data from the first four years
of the study were used to develop spatially explicit statistical
models that identified the crops affecting local variations in pest
resistance and the maximum range of any effects.
The researchers found that annual spatial variation in resistance
was not affected by refuges in near-by melon or alfalfa crops.
Resistance was negatively associated with the area of cotton
refuges and positively associated with the area of cotton
treated with pyriproxyfen. The model was validated over the
following four years by predicting resistance at the landscape
level. Results confirmed that the provision of refuges for cotton
delayed the evolution of resistance and fields treated with
pyriproxyfen accelerated the evolution of resistance. The new
method and framework could help refine the refuge strategy for
many key COMPANIES pests, the NEWS researchers ROUND-UP suggest.
Details of the study have been published in the US journal,
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Study finds budworms cause of
soybean GBS
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Researchers from a trio of US universities have identified insect
pests as the cause of green bean syndrome (GBS) in soybeans,
rather than micro-organisms as previously believed. Pods on
soybeans affected by GBS do not mature at the same rate on the
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plant, so that half the pods on a plant may be ready for harvest
while the rest are still green, the researchers note. The syndrome
rarely affects an entire field, but is usually confined to small
areas within it.
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Field observations over the past two years indicate that
budworms (Helicoverpa zea) are the underlying cause of GBS,
the researchers say. Their findings suggest that high levels of
seed abortions and de-podding, likely due to budworm feeding,
cause PEOPLE physiological changes in plants that result in delayed and
uneven maturity of pods.
The researchers also cite studies in which soybeans were either
deliberately MEETINGS de-podded or were exposed to heavy infestations of
pod-feeding stink bugs or other pests. The results show that any
stress that interferes with pod setting, filling or retention can
cause uneven pod maturity.
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GBS did ASIA/AUSTRALASIA/AFRICA not detect any trace of known NEWS IN soybean BRIEF pathogens such
as phytoplasma or viruses.
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Priming plant defences has
heritable benefits
Two research projects conducted by current and former members
of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR)
in Plant Survival have shown that priming a plant’s defences
also increases disease or pest resistance in its descendants.
In one study, researchers from the Swiss University of Neuchatel
treated thale cress plants with either b-amino-butyric acid or an
avirulent isolate of Pseudomonas spp bacteria to prime defence
responses. Both substances are harmless to the environment
and are simple to apply, the researchers note. The descendants
of primed plants reacted more quickly and strongly when
challenged with a mildew vector and pathogenic bacteria.
Transcription rates of defence-related genes were also increased
more rapidly.
Similar trans-generational beneficial effects, this time against
herbivorous pests, were found in a second project using thale
cress and tomatoes. In this case, plants were primed using
either methyl jasmonate or by exposing the parent plants to
caterpillar feeding. The results showed that caterpillars feeding
on plants whose parents had been primed developed much
slower and their size was reduced by half.
In both cases, positive trans-generational effects were
maintained for two generations. However, plant defence
responses returned to normal levels if second-generation plants
were not also primed. The phenomenon helps plants adapt to a
hostile environment, the researchers believe.
promising strategy . . .
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These characteristics make the application of defence elicitors a
very promising strategy for sustainable agriculture that respects
the environment, the researchers note. Exploiting the effects
of trans-generational priming could help reduce pesticide use,
they add. By reducing the amount of pesticides applied in
fields, plants end up being more exposed to insect wounds.
Paradoxically, these wounds reinforce the plant’s resistance,
which will then be transmitted to the next generation, they add.
Details of the studies have been published in the journal Plant
Physiology.
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Plant Sciences (CPS - Saint Paul, Minnesota), and Belgian
sugar beet seed breeders SESVanderHave (VDH – Tienen) have
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agreed to collaborate on the development of improved sugar
beet varieties using new breeding techniques and targeted
genetic modifications. ASIA NEWS CPS ROUND-UP will provide VDH with customdesigned
meganucleases for the sugar beet genome to expedite
the development of new targeted traits in sugar beet. Financial
terms of the agreement ASIA/AFRICA have NEWS not ROUND-UP been disclosed.
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