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No 633<br />
Published twice a month<br />
February 8th 2012<br />
<strong>BASF</strong> <strong>ups</strong> <strong>new</strong> <strong>ais</strong><br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>pipeline</strong> <strong>sales</strong><br />
<strong>potential</strong><br />
page 2<br />
www.agrow.com<br />
Bayer files third GMO<br />
suit against Dow<br />
page 2<br />
TKI buys Bayer's<br />
carbaryl business<br />
page 3<br />
Industry deals mooted<br />
for EU GM crop bans<br />
page 9<br />
US EPA plans registration<br />
review meetings<br />
page 13<br />
South/Central Am agchem<br />
<strong>sales</strong> up 30% in 2011<br />
page 15<br />
China’s glyphosate industry<br />
consolidates in 2011<br />
page 20<br />
Bayer debuts fluopyram<br />
in Turkey<br />
page 21
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AGROW | No 633 | February 8th 2012<br />
CONTENTS<br />
COMPANIES<br />
2 <strong>BASF</strong> <strong>ups</strong> <strong>new</strong> <strong>ais</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>pipeline</strong> <strong>sales</strong> <strong>potential</strong><br />
2 Bayer files third GMO suit against Dow<br />
3 Latin America boosts Dow Q4<br />
3 TKI buys Bayer's carbaryl business<br />
3 Amvac gains mosquito larvicides<br />
4 DuPont agchem <strong>sales</strong> up 9% in Q4<br />
6 United Phosphorus posts 63% Q3 <strong>sales</strong> spurt<br />
6 Rallis’ Q3 <strong>sales</strong> up 19%<br />
6 Cheminova’s 2011 revenues up 10%<br />
6 Excel Crop Care up 8% in Q3<br />
EUROPE<br />
9 Industry deals mooted for EU GM crop bans<br />
9 GM soybean decisions returned to EU Commission<br />
10 EU targets extra <strong>ais</strong> for water quality rules<br />
11 EU updates <strong>ais</strong> on dangerous chemicals list<br />
12 More EU deadlines for <strong>new</strong> ai assessments<br />
12 Denmark to impose <strong>new</strong> tax on pesticides<br />
Correspondent<br />
(China)<br />
Editor in Chief<br />
Deputy Editor<br />
Sanjiv Rana Andy Beer Robert Birkett Hazel Blake<br />
(Europe, Asia) (North America, Australasia) (Latin America) (Plant Biotechechnology)<br />
sanjiv.rana@informa.com <strong>and</strong>y.beer@informa.com robert.birkett@informa.com hazel.blake@informa.com<br />
Contributor<br />
(EU Affairs)<br />
Editor – <strong>Agrow</strong><br />
Intelligence<br />
AMERICAS<br />
13 US EPA plans registration review meetings<br />
13 US seizes imported orange juice<br />
13 US/Canada seek joint label expansions<br />
15 South American region seeks flexible agchem<br />
Duncan Poupard Dr Jackie Bird Leila Nabih Kathy Askew Ben Watkins<br />
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Editorial Writer<br />
appovals<br />
15 South/Central Am agchem <strong>sales</strong> up 30% in 2011<br />
15 Brazil updates agchem residue data rules<br />
16 Brazil Anvisa recommends bans on two insecticides<br />
16 Brazil updates agchem residue data rules<br />
18 Peru lifts agchem suspensions <strong>and</strong> confirms bans<br />
18 Costa Rica court annuls agchem approval provision<br />
ASIA/AUSTRALASIA<br />
20 China’s glyphosate industry consolidates in 2011<br />
PRODUCTS<br />
21 Bayer debuts fluopyram in Turkey<br />
21 <strong>BASF</strong> br<strong>and</strong>s <strong>new</strong> dicamba Engenia<br />
22 US appoval for TwinLink cotton<br />
AGBIOTECH EXTRA/RESEARCH<br />
23 New model confirms refuge values<br />
23 Study finds budworms cause of soybean GBS<br />
23 Priming plant defences has heritable benefits<br />
Production<br />
Editorial Writer<br />
Account Manager<br />
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Companies AGROW | No 633 | February 8th 2012<br />
COMPANIES NEWS ROUND-UP<br />
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
<strong>BASF</strong> <strong>ups</strong> <strong>new</strong> <strong>ais</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>pipeline</strong><br />
<strong>sales</strong> <strong>potential</strong><br />
Products<br />
Products<br />
Bayer files COMPANIES Products third NEWS GMO IN BRIEF suit against<br />
Products<br />
Dow<br />
<strong>BASF</strong> has increased the combined peak annual <strong>sales</strong> <strong>potential</strong><br />
EUROPE NEWS ROUND-UP<br />
of its range of <strong>new</strong> active ingredients by €400 million ($518<br />
million at the current rate) to €2,800 million ($3,625 million).<br />
The upward revision comes mainly through a €300 million<br />
COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
Bayer CropScience PRODUCTS has filed NEWS another IN BRIEF US lawsuit against Dow<br />
AgroSciences over alleged patent infringement involving herbicide<br />
COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
tolerance in genetically modified crops. The latest suit accuses<br />
Dow of “unauthorised<br />
PRODUCTS<br />
use”<br />
NEWS<br />
of Bayer<br />
IN BRIEF<br />
patents related to glufosinate<br />
($388 million) rise in the peak annual <strong>potential</strong> for the<br />
fungicide, pyraclostrobin (trade-marked as F500), which has<br />
AMERICAS NEWS ROUND-UP<br />
been moved up to €1,000 million ($1,295 million). In addition,<br />
tolerance technology. It was filed in the US District Court for<br />
EUROPE<br />
COMPANIES<br />
NEWS<br />
NEWS<br />
IN BRIEF<br />
IN BRIEF<br />
the Eastern District PRODUCTS of Virginia NEWS IN last BRIEF month. Bayer is seeking a<br />
permanent injunction against Dow’s use of the technology.<br />
several projects from early research have been promoted to<br />
development status.<br />
EUROPE<br />
Bayer has filed<br />
COMPANIES NEWS<br />
two previous<br />
NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
lawsuits<br />
IN BRIEF<br />
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF against Dow over alleged<br />
patent infringement through Dow’s development of herbicide-<br />
The company AUSTRALASIA highlights NEWS the IN realisation BRIEF of a major part of the<br />
€1,600 million ($2,072 million) peak annual <strong>sales</strong> <strong>potential</strong><br />
from <strong>ais</strong> launched since 2002. These include: the fungicides,<br />
pyraclostrobin, orysastrobin, dimoxystrobin, boscalid <strong>and</strong><br />
metrafenone; the herbicides, INTELLIGENCE<br />
tritosulfuron <strong>and</strong> topramezone; <strong>and</strong><br />
the insecticides,<br />
PEOPLE<br />
chlorfenapyr <strong>and</strong> metaflumizone. “This shows<br />
our strong ability to successfully commercialise our products,”<br />
says <strong>BASF</strong>’s crop protection division president, Markus Heldt.<br />
He points MEETING out the growth in four years of the company’s <strong>new</strong> <strong>ais</strong>’<br />
<strong>sales</strong> <strong>potential</strong> from €1,800 million ($2,331 million) to €2,800<br />
million.<br />
<strong>BASF</strong> puts the peak annual <strong>sales</strong> <strong>potential</strong> for <strong>ais</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />
genetically COMPANIES modified NEWS crops IN being BRIEFlaunched<br />
within the current<br />
decade<br />
ASIA/AUSTRALASIA/AFRICA<br />
at €1,200 million ($1,554<br />
NEWS<br />
million).<br />
IN BRIEF<br />
They include: the<br />
fungicides, ametoctradin (trade-marked as Initium), fluxapyroxad<br />
(trade-marked as Xemium) <strong>and</strong> a yet-to-be-named fungicide;<br />
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
the herbicide, saflufenacil (trade-marked as Kixor) <strong>and</strong> a yetto-be-named<br />
WORLD herbicide; NEWS IN BRIEF a <strong>new</strong> insecticide; the imidazolinone<br />
herbicide-tolerant Dow’s <strong>new</strong> GM sulfoximine soybeans, Cultivance, compound<br />
co-developed with<br />
the Recent Brazilian published agricultural patents research from Dow corporation, AgroSciences the divulge Embrapa; activity<br />
<strong>and</strong> around dicamba-tolerant EUROPE a certain NEWS N-sulfoximine IN GM BRIEF crops, compound which are with being insecticidal co-developed<br />
with properties. Monsanto. The compound, according to the claims from US<br />
patent PRODUCTS No 20100152245A1 NEWS ROUND-UP entitled “Insecticidal N-substituted<br />
(6-haloalkylpyridin-3-yl)-alkyl sulfoximines” of June 2010, describes<br />
blockbuster the general structure herbicide of the . . active . ingredient <strong>and</strong> the preferences<br />
regarding its radicals.<br />
The company calls Kixor its blockbuster herbicide. The ai has<br />
been The launched<br />
AMERICAS preferred in structure NEWS<br />
North<br />
IN is: America<br />
BRIEF<br />
<strong>and</strong> many markets in Latin<br />
America ASIA <strong>and</strong> NEWS is scheduled IN BRIEF to enter the Brazilian market in the<br />
near future, which will support its global peak <strong>sales</strong> <strong>potential</strong><br />
currently estimated to be €200 million ($259 million). The<br />
Cultivance WORLD/AUSTRALASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA soybeans are due NEWS NEWS to IN be IN BRIEF launched BRIEF in Brazil in 2013.<br />
Dicamba-tolerant soybeans are due to be commercialised in<br />
2014 (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 631, p 4).<br />
In 2011, <strong>BASF</strong> invested 9-10% of its crop protection <strong>sales</strong><br />
tolerant Enlist AMERICAS EUROPE COMPANIES soybeans. NEWS NEWS Last NEWS IN IN BRIEF October, IN BRIEF BRIEF it accused Dow of<br />
COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
infringing seven PRODUCTS Bayer patents NEWS IN covering BRIEF glyphosate tolerance<br />
technology (<strong>Agrow</strong> AGBIOTECH/RESEARCH No 628, p 3). That claim followed a 2010<br />
AMERICAS EUROPE Products<br />
NEWS NEWS IN IN BRIEF BRIEF NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
lawsuit involving a Bayer patent covering tolerance to the<br />
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
phenoxy herbicide, PRODUCTS 2,4-D NEWS (<strong>Agrow</strong> IN BRIEF<br />
ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEFNEWS<br />
No 606, IN BRIEF p 3).<br />
AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
Dow believes EUROPE all three NEWS lawsuits IN BRIEF are “without merit” <strong>and</strong> says<br />
COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
that it will aggressively ASIA/AUSTRALASIA/WORLD ASIA/AUSTRALASIA defend itself NEWS against IN NEWS BRIEF all IN of BRIEF them. The<br />
company adds AMERICAS<br />
EUROPE that it has NEWS<br />
NEWS developed IN<br />
IN<br />
BRIEF<br />
BRIEF a “substantial intellectual<br />
property estate” EUROPE <strong>and</strong> has NEWS the IN “utmost BRIEF respect” for intellectual<br />
ASIA/AUSTRALASIA PEOPLE<br />
ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN ROUND-UP BRIEF<br />
property rights. PRODUCTS “Dow AgroSciences NEWS IN BRIEF will do everything in<br />
its power to keep AMERICAS Bayer NEWS from interfering IN BRIEF with its history of<br />
innovation <strong>and</strong><br />
PEOPLE<br />
ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA to<br />
NEWS<br />
prevent<br />
ROUND-UP<br />
Bayer NEWS from IN depriving BRIEF American<br />
farmers of Enlist AMERICAS products.” NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
PEOPLE MEETING AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
Dow’s Enlist soybeans EUROPE NEWS are tolerant IN BRIEF to 2,4-D, glyphosate<br />
<strong>and</strong> glufosinate-ammonium. ASIA/AFRICA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS They<br />
NEWS ROUND-UP are being<br />
IN BRIEF<br />
developed in<br />
collaboration PEOPLE MEETING with US biotechnology company M S Technologies<br />
(West Point, Iowa). ASIA/AUSTRALASIA The firms applied NEWS for IN BRIEF USDA deregulation of<br />
www.agrow.com AFRICA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEF NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
the soybeans MEETING last August (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 622, p 27).<br />
AMERICAS PEOPLE NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
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PEOPLE<br />
www.agrow.com COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
n Monsanto/MAI<br />
ASIA/AFRICA PRODUCTS ASIA/AUSTRALASIA extend herbicide<br />
PRODUCTS NEWS<br />
PRODUCTS NEWS NEWS IN<br />
NEWS IN<br />
NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
IN BRIEF BRIEF IN deal BRIEF<br />
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Monsanto <strong>and</strong> Makhteshim-Agan Industries’ (MAI) US business,<br />
www.agrow.com PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
MANA Crop Protection, PRODUCTS have NEWS extended IN BRIEFtheir<br />
US herbicide<br />
promotion deal MEETING to include MANA’s cotton herbicide, Direx 4L<br />
MEETING<br />
(diuron). Several EUROPE PEOPLE MANA NEWS products<br />
EUROPE NEWS IN<br />
NEWS IN BRIEF were included in Monsanto’s<br />
www.agrow.com IN BRIEF<br />
Roundup Ready Plus programme, BRIEF which was started in 2010<br />
(<strong>Agrow</strong> No 603, EUROPE p 3). NEWS Direx 4L IN BRIEF is effective against glyphosate-<br />
EUROPE NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
resistant www.agrow.com pigweed (Amaranthus palmeri) <strong>and</strong> marestail (Conyza<br />
www.agrow.com<br />
canadensis), MANA points out. MAI acquired DuPont’s global<br />
non-mixture diuron AMERICAS MEETING herbicide<br />
AMERICAS NEWS business,<br />
AMERICAS NEWS IN<br />
NEWS IN BRIEF including the Direx <strong>and</strong><br />
IN BRIEF<br />
Karmex br<strong>and</strong>s, last year (<strong>Agrow</strong> No BRIEF 614, p 2).<br />
in research PEOPLE <strong>and</strong> development. It invested €393 million ($509<br />
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<br />
AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
n Strong Q3 AMERICAS boosts Jiangsu NEWS IN BRIEF Yangnong<br />
its<br />
resistant<br />
crop protection<br />
to one or<br />
<strong>sales</strong><br />
more<br />
(<strong>Agrow</strong><br />
insecticides<br />
No 612,<br />
currently<br />
p 3).<br />
on the market, as it<br />
either has a <strong>new</strong> mode of action or an atypical one. Pests targeted<br />
include aphids, plant hoppers, leafhoppers, <strong>and</strong> whiteflies when<br />
used on food <strong>and</strong> non-food crops.<br />
MEETING<br />
For more details, log in to <strong>Agrow</strong> INTELLIGENCE<br />
Intelligence <strong>and</strong> read through<br />
profile No. P0232.<br />
For enquiries, please email the <strong>Agrow</strong> Intelligence editor,<br />
www.agrow.com Leila Nabih, at leila.nabih@informa.com.<br />
Chinese www.agrow.com agrochemical ASIA/AUSTRALASIA COMPANIES company NEWS IN NEWS Jiangsu<br />
ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS BRIEF IN Yangnong<br />
NEWS IN BRIEF Chemical<br />
IN BRIEF<br />
recorded strong pesticide <strong>sales</strong> of Yuan 373.4<br />
BRIEF<br />
million ($58.6<br />
million at the ASIA/AUSTRALASIA current rate) in the NEWS third IN quarter BRIEFof<br />
2011, up<br />
ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
68.3% compared with the same period last year. Net profit for<br />
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
the three months shot up 70.3% to Yuan 23.5 million ($3.7<br />
PEOPLE<br />
million). The PEOPLE company’s PEOPLE nine-month <strong>sales</strong> increased by 15% to<br />
Yuan 1,391.6 PEOPLE million ($218.5 million). However, net profit fell<br />
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by 15.2% to Yuan PEOPLE 110.4 million ($17.3 million).<br />
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AGROW | No 633 | February 8th 2012 Companies<br />
Products<br />
Latin America boosts Dow Q4<br />
Dow AgroSciences’ agrochemical <strong>sales</strong> in the fourth quarter of<br />
2011 were boosted by a 17% increase in revenues in its Latin<br />
America COMPANIES region. The NEWS business ROUND-UP contributed to record fourthquarter<br />
<strong>and</strong> full-year <strong>sales</strong> for parent company Dow Chemical’s<br />
agricultural sciences segment <strong>and</strong> record fourth-quarter<br />
earnings, the company points out.<br />
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
The agricultural sciences business posted a 5.3% rise in<br />
revenues in the fourth quarter to $1,344 million. Volumes were<br />
up by 1% <strong>and</strong> prices by 4%. Earnings before interest, tax,<br />
depreciation <strong>and</strong> amortisation (EBITDA) more than doubled to<br />
EUROPE NEWS ROUND-UP<br />
$145 million. A strong growing season in Latin America boosted<br />
global <strong>sales</strong> of seed, traits <strong>and</strong> oils by 22%.<br />
Dow’s fourth-quarter gains followed a 20% rise in agricultural<br />
sciences revenues in the first nine months of the year (<strong>Agrow</strong><br />
No 627, AMERICAS p 6). For NEWS the ROUND-UP year as a whole, <strong>sales</strong> grew by 16.1% to<br />
$5,655 million. Volumes were up by 11% <strong>and</strong> prices by 5%.<br />
EBITDA grew by 42.7% to $913 million.<br />
Sales of “<strong>new</strong>” agrochemicals rose by over 20% during 2011.<br />
AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
With more product launches planned for 2012, including the<br />
insecticide, sulfoxaflor, the company is on track to exceed its<br />
target of $800 million in annual <strong>sales</strong> of such products by<br />
2013, says Dow Chemical chairman <strong>and</strong> CEO Andrew Liveris.<br />
The company PEOPLE received its first approval of sulfoxaflor in South<br />
Korea in November, with a launch planned for the first half of<br />
2012 (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 629, p 25).<br />
Dow’s MEETING <strong>sales</strong> of seed, traits <strong>and</strong> oils grew by 35% last year, with<br />
“significant” gains in key crops such as maize <strong>and</strong> cotton. It saw<br />
continued strong dem<strong>and</strong> for genetically modified insect-resistant<br />
<strong>and</strong> herbicide-tolerant SmartStax maize in North America <strong>and</strong><br />
increased adoption of Herculex maize in the Americas. The<br />
COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
company is well on its way to achieving a $1,000 million global<br />
maize ASIA/AUSTRALASIA/AFRICA business, Mr Liveris says. NEWS Dow’s IN share BRIEF of the US cotton<br />
seed market grew by five percentage points in 2011.<br />
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
Dow’s agricultural sciences results ($ million)<br />
Year ended WORLD Dec NEWS IN BRIEF 2010<br />
31st<br />
% change 2011<br />
Sales 4,869<br />
EUROPE NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
EBITDA1 640<br />
Fourth PRODUCTS quarter NEWS ROUND-UP<br />
+16.1<br />
+42.7<br />
5,655<br />
913<br />
Sales 1,276 +5.3 1,344<br />
EBITDA<br />
AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
1 72 +101.4 145<br />
1 earnings before interest, tax, depreciation <strong>and</strong> amortisation.<br />
Dow ASIA claims NEWS to have IN BRIEF developed more products per dollar invested<br />
than any other company in the agricultural sciences area. It<br />
launched “four major solutions” in the last three years <strong>and</strong><br />
expects WORLD/AUSTRALASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA to launch four more NEWS NEWS this IN IN year, BRIEF BRIEF Mr Liveris says. The<br />
business’ EBITDA margin of 16% in 2011 is said to reflect<br />
this focus on its product <strong>pipeline</strong> <strong>and</strong> forward investments. Its<br />
EBITDA margin target of 25% “illustrates the strong <strong>potential</strong><br />
this segment PEOPLE boasts going forward”.<br />
The company forecasts “double-digit” growth for its seed <strong>and</strong> trait<br />
business this year, with “more moderate growth” for agrochemicals.<br />
MEETING<br />
AGROW | No 564 | March 27th 2009<br />
TKI buys Bayer’s carbaryl<br />
business<br />
The Belgian Tessenderlo Group’s US subsidiary, Tessenderlo<br />
Kerley Inc (TKI - Phoenix, Arizona), has acquired the global crop<br />
protection assets of Bayer CropScience’s carbaryl insecticide/<br />
acaricide business Products<br />
Products<br />
for an undisclosed amount. Bayer has<br />
retained the COMPANIES non-crop Products carbaryl NEWS IN business. BRIEF<br />
Products<br />
Carbaryl is marketed under the Sevin br<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> associated trade<br />
marks in 40 COMPANIES countries. It NEWS is used IN for BRIEF broad-spectrum pest control<br />
on tree fruits, PRODUCTS nuts, vegetables NEWS IN <strong>and</strong> BRIEF other crops. The acquisition<br />
covers trade marks, know-how, registrations <strong>and</strong> registration data.<br />
COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
“planned expansion” PRODUCTS NEWS . . . IN BRIEF<br />
The carbaryl business will be h<strong>and</strong>led by TKI’s NovaSource crop<br />
EUROPE<br />
COMPANIES<br />
NEWS<br />
NEWS<br />
IN BRIEF<br />
IN BRIEF<br />
protection unit. PRODUCTS “The acquisition NEWS IN BRIEF of the carbaryl insecticide<br />
franchise is another step in the planned expansion of the<br />
company’s niche EUROPE COMPANIES crop NEWS protection NEWS IN BRIEF IN product BRIEF portfolio,” says<br />
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
NovaSource group vice-president David Cassidy. It follows last<br />
year’s purchase AMERICAS EUROPE COMPANIES of the NEWS NEWS Purshade NEWS IN IN BRIEF IN BRIEF product BRIEF line (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 623, p<br />
3), the acquisition COMPANIES of DuPont’s NEWS IN terbacil BRIEF<strong>and</strong><br />
linuron herbicides in<br />
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
2007 <strong>and</strong> 2009, respectively (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 571, p 3), <strong>and</strong> <strong>BASF</strong>’s<br />
AGBIOTECH/RESEARCH<br />
kaolin-based AMERICAS EUROPE insect Products<br />
repellent NEWS NEWS IN IN BRIEF <strong>and</strong> BRIEF NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
crop protectant, Surround in<br />
2007 (<strong>Agrow</strong> PRODUCTS No 532, p NEWS 2). IN BRIEF<br />
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEFNEWS<br />
IN BRIEF<br />
AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
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fourth quarter<br />
DuPont notes. Growth is attributed to increased plantings <strong>and</strong><br />
share gains in North America, volume growth in Latin America<br />
<strong>and</strong> success in Europe <strong>and</strong> Asia.<br />
DuPont’s crop protection <strong>sales</strong> rose by 9% to $676 million<br />
in the fourth quarter of 2011. The company saw growth from<br />
all major product lines <strong>and</strong> in most regions, with the greatest<br />
contribution coming from the US <strong>and</strong> Latin America. All regions<br />
achieved double-digit <strong>sales</strong> growth in the second half of the<br />
year, the company points out.<br />
The fourth-quarter gains followed a 27% rise in crop protection<br />
revenues in the third quarter (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 627, p 5). For the full<br />
year, <strong>sales</strong> climbed by 16% to $2,900 million, including a 3%<br />
decline from divested business. DuPont sold its non-mixture<br />
diuron herbicide business to Makhteshim-Agan Industries during<br />
the year (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 614, p 2).<br />
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strong gains towards the end of the year in Latin America <strong>and</strong><br />
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portfolio changes added 1%. The business recorded an 18.1%<br />
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million, with margins of 19%.<br />
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representing about 20% of total crop protection <strong>sales</strong>. As forecast<br />
in December, DuPont’s insecticide <strong>sales</strong> exceeded $1,000 million<br />
in 2011, a year earlier than expected (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 631, p 3).<br />
DuPont’s second anthranilic diamide insecticide, cyantraniliprole<br />
(trade-marked as Cyazypyr), is due to be introduced in the<br />
second half of this year, with a peak revenue forecast of $250-<br />
300 million. The combined <strong>sales</strong> of chlorantraniliprole <strong>and</strong><br />
cyantraniliprole are expected to top $1,000 million.<br />
DuPont’s agriculture segment, which includes agrochemicals<br />
<strong>and</strong> seed, recorded a 7.7% rise in fourth-quarter revenues to<br />
$1,297 million. Volumes were up by 3% <strong>and</strong> prices by 5%.<br />
The business recorded a pre-tax operating loss of $216 million<br />
compared with a prior year loss of $185 million. Excluding<br />
significant items, the losses were $116 million <strong>and</strong> $135<br />
million, respectively. The improvement is attributed to higher<br />
<strong>sales</strong>.<br />
Among the significant items was a $100 million charge<br />
related to damages claims over the turf herbicide, Imprelis<br />
(aminocyclopyrachlor). The company incurred a $75 million<br />
charge in the third quarter. The US EPA ordered a halt to<br />
Imprelis <strong>sales</strong> last August after widespread damage reports<br />
(<strong>Agrow</strong> No 622, p 16).<br />
Pioneer . . .<br />
Fourth-quarter <strong>sales</strong> by DuPont seed subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred<br />
International rose by 7% to $621 million, which was partly<br />
due to an “exceptional Latin America summer season”, the<br />
company says. Latin American seed <strong>sales</strong> in the second half of<br />
the year were up by more than 40%, driven by over 55% growth<br />
in summer maize seed <strong>sales</strong> in Brazil. The business also saw<br />
growth in the Philippines <strong>and</strong> Indonesia in the fourth quarter,<br />
reflecting improved weather conditions <strong>and</strong> increased plantings.<br />
Full-year seed <strong>sales</strong> grew by 17% to $6,300 million, along<br />
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balanced between North America <strong>and</strong> international operations,<br />
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United Phosphorus posts 63% Q3<br />
<strong>sales</strong> spurt<br />
United Phosphorus recorded an increase of 63.1% in<br />
agrochemical <strong>sales</strong> to Rs 17,013 million ($333 million at the<br />
current rate) in its third quarter ended December 31st 2011.<br />
Agrochemicals accounted for some 91% of the company's<br />
total <strong>sales</strong> of Rs 18,717 million ($367 million), which grew by<br />
57.4%. Domestic <strong>sales</strong> accounted for a fifth of total revenues.<br />
Profit after tax on all <strong>sales</strong> was up by 62.8% to Rs 1,340 million<br />
($26 million).<br />
Nine-month agrochemical <strong>sales</strong> grew by 43.7% to Rs 48,268<br />
million ($946 million). Agrochemicals accounted for some 89%<br />
of total <strong>sales</strong> of Rs 54,148 million ($1,061 million), which grew<br />
by 43.7%. Profit after tax on all <strong>sales</strong> was up by 9.2% to Rs<br />
3,725 million ($73 million). Domestic <strong>sales</strong> accounted for 27%<br />
of total nine-month revenues. North America made up 21%,<br />
Europe for 15% <strong>and</strong> the rest of the world accounted for the<br />
remaining 37%.<br />
United Phosphorus recorded an agrochemical <strong>sales</strong> increase of<br />
9% to Rs 52,080 million ($1,020 million) in the financial year<br />
ended March 31st 2011 (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 616, p 3).<br />
Rallis’ Q3 <strong>sales</strong> up 19%<br />
Rallis India recorded an 18.6% increase in revenues to Rs<br />
3,178.6 million ($62.3 million at the current rate) in its third<br />
quarter ended December 31st 2011. Sales were boosted by the<br />
acquisition of the Indian agricultural biotechnology company,<br />
Metahelix Life Sciences, in December 2010 (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 606,<br />
p 5). Hence, they are not comparable with the results of the<br />
previous year, the company says.<br />
Net profit for the quarter, however, fell by over 77% to Rs 76.6<br />
million. Profit calculations included a non-recurring charge of Rs<br />
242.4 million on account of costs relating to the shutdown of its<br />
manufacturing facility at Turbhe <strong>and</strong> a net foreign exchange loss<br />
of Rs 82.1 million.<br />
Nine-month revenues rose by over a quarter to Rs 10,395.1<br />
million. Net profit was down by 16.7% to Rs 893 million.<br />
The company says that farm productivity was impacted despite<br />
increased acreages for wheat <strong>and</strong> rice because of erratic<br />
monsoon rainfall.<br />
Rallis India’s results (Rs million)<br />
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December 31st<br />
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Sales 2,680.5 (52.5) +18.6 3,178.6 (62.3)<br />
Net profit<br />
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336.9 (6.6) –77.3 76.6 (1.5)<br />
Sales 8,272.1 (162.1) +25.7 10,395.1 (203.6)<br />
Net profit<br />
1 at the current rate.<br />
1,072.3 (21.0) –16.7 893.0 (17.5)<br />
Cheminova’s 2011 revenues up<br />
10%<br />
Cheminova has recorded revenues of just under DKK 5,800<br />
million ($1,010 million at the current rate) in 2011, reveal<br />
unaudited preliminary figures. That translates into an increase of<br />
10.4% on the previous year (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 613, pp 4-5). Earnings<br />
before interest <strong>and</strong> tax (EBIT) touched DKK 320 million ($56<br />
million), while the EBITDA margin was around 8.5%.<br />
The results are in line with its previously forecast revenues of<br />
DKK 5,800 million, an EBITDA margin of 8-10% <strong>and</strong> EBIT in<br />
the range of DKK 300-400 million ($52-70 million – <strong>Agrow</strong><br />
No 628, p 5). The only deviation was in the cash flow from<br />
operating activities of approximately DKK 180 million ($31<br />
million), which is lower than the expectation of over DKK 336<br />
million ($59 million).<br />
The company highlights problems such as a serious drought<br />
in Texas, considerable difficulties experienced by German<br />
subsidiary Stähler, <strong>and</strong> negative currency effects. But earnings<br />
received a boost from positive developments in Latin America<br />
towards the end of the year. Higher receivables negatively<br />
affected the cash flow from operating activities. Cheminova’s<br />
results for 2011 <strong>and</strong> guidance for 2012 are due to be issued on<br />
March 14th.<br />
Excel Crop Care up 8% in Q3<br />
Indian agrochemical company Excel Crop Care (Mumbai) was<br />
able to stem the decline suffered in the first two quarters of its<br />
current fiscal year by recording an 8.4% rise in revenues to Rs<br />
1,669.8 million ($32.7 million at the current rate) in its third<br />
quarter ended December 31st 2011. The company was forced<br />
to suspend production <strong>and</strong> <strong>sales</strong> of the insecticide/acaricide,<br />
endosulfan, by an Indian Supreme Court ruling in May (<strong>Agrow</strong><br />
No 616, p 23). The active ingredient normally accounted for<br />
a third of <strong>sales</strong> <strong>and</strong> the loss of the endosulfan business is<br />
adversely impacting performance, the company says. After a<br />
Court order in September allowing the export of existing stock of<br />
the active ingredient (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 626, p 23), Excel was able to<br />
export 737 tonnes, worth Rs 203.2 million ($4 million), in its<br />
third quarter.<br />
Net profit, however, fell by 85.4% to Rs 10.9 million<br />
($200,000). Excel continues to maintain a provision of Rs 163<br />
million ($3.2 million) for inventory items related to endosulfan.<br />
Nine-month <strong>sales</strong> were down 14.3% to Rs 5,182.2 million<br />
($101.5 million), while net profit dropped by almost two-thirds<br />
to Rs 157 million ($3.1 million).<br />
Excel will export 416 kilolitres of formulated product, worth<br />
about Rs 7,200 million ($141 million), in the current quarter<br />
following a Court ruling in December allowing the export of<br />
existing stock of endosulfan formulations held by manufacturers<br />
(<strong>Agrow</strong> No 631, p 19). To the extent export orders are received<br />
in future, the remaining stock of formulations will be exported,<br />
the company says.<br />
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EU targets extra <strong>ais</strong> for water<br />
quality rules<br />
The European Commission has proposed the addition of six<br />
agrochemical active ingredients <strong>and</strong> one non-crop biocide to<br />
chemicals that are subject to water pollution controls. The<br />
pesticides are: the herbicides, aclonifen <strong>and</strong> bifenox; the<br />
insecticide, cypermethrin; the acaricide, dicofol; the insecticide,<br />
heptachlor; <strong>and</strong> the fungicide, quinoxyfen. The biocide is the<br />
insecticide/acaricide, dichlorvos. The move follows a review<br />
of some 2,000 chemicals to see if they should be included in<br />
those regulated by the EU water framework Directive (2000/60 –<br />
<strong>Agrow</strong> No 603, p 11).<br />
The <strong>ais</strong> are proposed as “priority substances”, which would<br />
make them subject to maximum concentration levels in water.<br />
Three of the <strong>ais</strong>, dicofol, quinoxyfen <strong>and</strong> heptachlor, are<br />
proposed as “priority hazardous substances”, which would<br />
place them under stronger measures to phase them out or stop<br />
releases to water within 20 years.<br />
Of the three, only quinoxyfen is approved in the EU. Its<br />
use was authorised under the EU agrochemical registration<br />
Directive (91/414) in 2004 <strong>and</strong> is used mainly on cereals <strong>and</strong><br />
grapevines. Dicofol has already been phased out, following a<br />
decision in 2008 against re-registration, but there may possibly<br />
be some residual use, the Commission says. Heptachlor has<br />
not been marketed in the EU for many years <strong>and</strong> is covered by<br />
international agreements that ban persistent organic pollutants<br />
(POPs). However, secondary emissions to water are possible, the<br />
Commission notes.<br />
EU agrochemical approval was granted to aclonifen <strong>and</strong><br />
bifenox in 2009, <strong>and</strong> cypermethrin in 2006. An application for<br />
dichlorvos approval under the EU biocidal products Directive<br />
(98/8) is currently under assessment. The ai failed to gain<br />
agrochemical re-registration in 2007.<br />
The Commission also proposes to change the classification of<br />
some <strong>ais</strong> already on the priority substances list. This includes<br />
the herbicide, trifluralin, which would become a priority<br />
hazardous substance. Decisions against re-registration of the<br />
ai were taken in 2007 <strong>and</strong> 2010, although Dow AgroSciences<br />
continues to pursue legal action to reinstate its approval (<strong>Agrow</strong><br />
No 630, p 7).<br />
The review focused on substances that had been identified<br />
under agrochemical or biocide legislation as being of <strong>potential</strong><br />
concern to the aquatic environment. The designation of priority<br />
substances was “based essentially on their hazardousness <strong>and</strong><br />
their presence in the aquatic environment”, the Commission<br />
says.<br />
In addition to the seven proposed pesticides, two more<br />
biocides, the preservative, terbutryn, <strong>and</strong> the antifouling agent,<br />
cybutryne, together with a further six industrial chemicals <strong>and</strong><br />
pharmaceuticals are also proposed as <strong>new</strong> additions. “The 15<br />
additional chemicals need to be monitored <strong>and</strong> controlled to<br />
ensure they don’t pose a risk to the environment or human<br />
health,” says EU Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik.<br />
The Directive already covers a total of 33 substances, including<br />
11 pesticides.<br />
The proposals require approval from EU Ministers <strong>and</strong> the<br />
European Parliament. The changes would take the form<br />
of amendments to both Directive 2000/60 <strong>and</strong> the EU<br />
environmental quality st<strong>and</strong>ards (EQS) in water Directive<br />
2008/105, which sets the concentration limits for specific<br />
substances. EU member states would have to ensure that<br />
the additional <strong>ais</strong> are monitored <strong>and</strong> their EQS met by 2021.<br />
However, there are provisions under Directive 2000/60 for<br />
extending this period in specific cases.<br />
Actual measures for meeting the EQS are not included in the<br />
proposal, as it is expected that existing agrochemical legislation<br />
will reduce the emissions of many of the <strong>ais</strong>. Inclusion of the<br />
<strong>ais</strong> in the list means that monitoring data would be obtained<br />
to provide feedback on the effectiveness of existing legislation,<br />
the Commission notes. However, if additional local or national<br />
measures prove insufficient to meet the EQS, then additional EU<br />
measures may need to be considered, it adds.<br />
“watch list” . . .<br />
Other elements of the proposal include a system for gathering<br />
information on other pollutants that might need to be controlled<br />
in the future at EU level. The establishment of a “watch list”<br />
would aim to gather monitoring data EU-wide over one or two<br />
years for substances of possible concern. The information would<br />
support decision-making on the risks posed by these substances<br />
<strong>and</strong> would be used in future reviews of the priority substances<br />
list. No EU st<strong>and</strong>ards or phase-out obligations would apply to<br />
substances on the watch list, <strong>and</strong> neither would they have to be<br />
monitored as widely as priority substances.<br />
The Commission also proposes improvements to the monitoring<br />
<strong>and</strong> reporting of chemical pollutants in water. In particular, there<br />
are provisions for coping with persistent, bioaccumulative <strong>and</strong><br />
toxic substances that may remain in the environment for long<br />
periods, even though their use in the EU has ceased. In cases<br />
where there is little a member state can do to speed up the<br />
reduction in concentrations of these substances, the proposal<br />
would allow them to reduce the monitoring effort to less<br />
frequent periods.<br />
impact assessment . . .<br />
An impact assessment carried out when drawing up the proposals<br />
concluded that the expected benefits, in terms of water quality<br />
<strong>and</strong> environmental <strong>and</strong> human health, would outweigh the costs,<br />
the Commission maintains. As no specific reduction actions<br />
are proposed, member states can select the most cost-effective<br />
measures that best fit their local situation. Since most of the <strong>ais</strong><br />
would not be designated priority hazardous substances, there would<br />
be no need to find substitutes for them. Those designated priority<br />
hazardous substances “are already, or will probably soon become,<br />
subject to controls under other legislation”, the Commission states.<br />
In most cases, substitutes are likely to be developed within the 20year<br />
phase-out timeframe. While there would be some additional<br />
monitoring costs, they would be “minor in relation to the existing<br />
overall monitoring costs”, the Commission believes.<br />
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EUROPE NEWS Kureha’s IN BRIEF fungicide, ipconazole;<br />
Biological Crop ASIA/AUSTRALASIA Protection’s insecticide/acaricide, NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
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ASIA/AFRICA NEWS ROUND-UP maltodextrin;<br />
<strong>and</strong> DuPont’s insecticide, chlorantraniliprole. The DARs were<br />
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circulated at ASIA/AUSTRALASIA the beginning of this NEWS month. IN BRIEF<br />
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The <strong>ais</strong> join MEETING 16 others, for which deadlines have been set in<br />
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in a bid to speed up the registration process<br />
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(<strong>Agrow</strong> No 630,<br />
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COMPANIES p 7). They<br />
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PEOPLE COMPANIES years, NEWS mainly IN due BRIEF to the time needed to<br />
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www.agrow.com request, submit COMPANIES <strong>and</strong> evaluate NEWS additional IN BRIEF data. The application<br />
dossiers PRODUCTS were ASIA/AFRICA PRODUCTS ASIA/AUSTRALASIA<br />
PRODUCTS declared NEWS complete NEWS IN NEWS BRIEF IN NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
in BRIEF 2006 IN BRIEF for tembotrione, in<br />
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2007 for chlorantraniliprole, <strong>and</strong> in 2008 for ipconazole <strong>and</strong><br />
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maltodextrin. PRODUCTS Three-year NEWS national IN BRIEF provisional approvals have<br />
already had to MEETING<br />
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be extended for tembotrione, ipconazole <strong>and</strong><br />
chlorantraniliprole.<br />
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n EFSA seeks views on tests for agchem dietary risks<br />
AMERICAS AMERICAS MEETING<br />
AMERICAS NEWS NEWS<br />
AMERICAS NEWS IN BRIEF IN<br />
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IN BRIEF<br />
The European Food Safety Authority<br />
BRIEF<br />
(EFSA) has opened a<br />
ASIA NEWS AMERICAS IN BRIEF<br />
second consultation on NEWS draft IN guidance BRIEF on methods to assess<br />
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dietary exposure to pesticide residues. The document considers<br />
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AMERICAS EUROPE COMPANIES NEWS NEWS NEWS IN IN BRIEF IN BRIEF BRIEF<br />
Denmark COMPANIES to impose NEWS IN BRIEF <strong>new</strong> tax on<br />
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pesticides AGBIOTECH/RESEARCH AMERICAS EUROPE Products<br />
NEWS NEWS IN IN BRIEF BRIEF NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
Denmark is PRODUCTS considering NEWS the IN introduction BRIEF<br />
PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF of a <strong>new</strong> pesticide<br />
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IN BRIEF<br />
tax on farmers AMERICAS to “encourage” NEWS IN BRIEF them to use fewer <strong>and</strong><br />
less harmful EUROPE pesticides. NEWS The IN BRIEF<br />
COMPANIES NEWS Ministry IN BRIEF of Environment<br />
has prepared ASIA/AUSTRALASIA/WORLD ASIA/AUSTRALASIA the proposal with NEWS the IN intention NEWS BRIEFIN<br />
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applications AMERICAS<br />
EUROPE by a third. NEWS<br />
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IN<br />
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the most harmful ASIA/AUSTRALASIA PEOPLE<br />
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the most IN ROUND-UP BRIEF expensive, <strong>and</strong><br />
the least harmful PRODUCTS ones NEWS the cheapest. IN BRIEF Some insecticides<br />
could increase<br />
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in cost<br />
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from<br />
IN<br />
DKK ©Informa BRIEFUK<br />
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PEOPLE<br />
60 ($10) per ha to DKK<br />
400 ($70) ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA per ha, NEWS while ROUND-UP other NEWS “environmentally IN BRIEF friendly”<br />
technologies AMERICAS would become NEWS IN cheaper. ©Informa BRIEFUK<br />
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economics<br />
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institute EUROPE NEWS has calculated IN BRIEF the business impact<br />
of the tax, estimating ASIA/AFRICA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA the NEWS additional NEWS ROUND-UP IN costs BRIEFfor<br />
individual<br />
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holdings would be “limited”.<br />
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A fact sheet ASIA/AUSTRALASIA published by the NEWS Ministry IN BRIEF<br />
www.agrow.com AFRICA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS IN BRIEF NEWS IN BRIEF provides estimates<br />
of the impact MEETING of the tax on various ©Informa UK kinds Ltd 2009 of farmers. The<br />
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calculations PEOPLE NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
have a proviso in the assumption that farmers<br />
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would “change<br />
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their behaviour”<br />
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<strong>and</strong> BRIEF choose the least<br />
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burdensome<br />
MEETING<br />
PEOPLE COMPANIES pesticides. NEWS For a IN typical BRIEFpotato<br />
grower, the costs<br />
PEOPLE<br />
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would likely COMPANIES increase by NEWS DKK IN 140 BRIEF ($24) per ha. In the case<br />
of high-value ASIA/AFRICA PRODUCTS ASIA/AUSTRALASIA<br />
PRODUCTS crops, cost NEWS NEWS per IN ha ©Informa NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
for BRIEF IN farmers UK Ltd BRIEF 2009 of blackcurrants<br />
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would grow by DKK 1,000 ($174) to DKK 8,000 ($1,392)<br />
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per ha, while PRODUCTS that for strawberries NEWS IN BRIEF <strong>and</strong> apples would decrease<br />
by DKK 2,000 MEETING<br />
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($348) to DKK 11,000 ($1,916) per ha <strong>and</strong><br />
DKK 17,000 EUROPE ($2,961) per ha, respectively.<br />
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www.agrow.com probabilistic<br />
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multiple consumers. The currently used IN BRIEF deterministic methods<br />
are simpler, but ASIA/AUSTRALASIA only estimate exposure NEWS IN for BRIEF one consumer. The<br />
EFSA has been ASIA/AUSTRALASIA working to improve NEWS the IN draft BRIEF over the last year,<br />
after respondents PRODUCTS to the NEWS first consultation IN BRIEF in 2010 called for<br />
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n Monsanto not to sell GM seed in France<br />
AMERICAS MEETING<br />
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Monsanto has declared that it does<br />
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not intend to market<br />
more practical PEOPLE PEOPLE<br />
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<strong>and</strong> prescriptive guidance (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 605, p 9).<br />
Comments are requested by March 7th. The document is on the<br />
PEOPLE ©Informa UK Ltd 2009<br />
EFSA’s website PEOPLE at: http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/consultations/<br />
call/120125.htm. EUROPE NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
genetically modified AMERICAS insect-resistant NEWS IN BRIEFMON810<br />
maize seed<br />
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in France so long as the country does not have a regulatory<br />
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approach based<br />
ASIA/AUSTRALASIA COMPANIES<br />
on science,<br />
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reports<br />
IN NEWS<br />
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French<br />
IN<br />
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<strong>new</strong>swire Agrisalon.<br />
It will, however, continue to offer non-GM IN BRIEF seed to French<br />
n Spanish MEETING MEETING<br />
MEETING winter cereal area to inch higher<br />
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Early official MEETING estimates show Spanish small-grain cereal farmers<br />
planting a similar<br />
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area to last year’s winter cereal acreage. The<br />
area is to rise AMERICAS by 0.6% NEWS on a like-for-like IN BRIEF basis compared with<br />
www.agrow.com www.agrow.com 2011. The area for all wheat is expected to rise by 2% to just<br />
www.agrow.com over 2 million ha. That includes the soft wheat area dipping by<br />
www.agrow.com 1% to just under 1.6 million ha, while the durum wheat acreage<br />
is to climb by ASIA/AUSTRALASIA almost 15% to some NEWS 437,100 IN BRIEFha.<br />
The “very<br />
farmers. France ASIA/AUSTRALASIA banned cultivation NEWS of IN MON810 BRIEF in 2008 (<strong>Agrow</strong><br />
No 535, p 11). ASIA/AUSTRALASIA But last November, NEWS the IN French BRIEF council of<br />
state, the Conseil PRODUCTS d’État, NEWS cancelled IN BRIEF the order of the Minister of<br />
Agriculture <strong>and</strong> PEOPLE<br />
PEOPLE<br />
Fisheries (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 630, p 11). The Minister<br />
of Ecology has reportedly cautioned farmers against buying<br />
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seed of the GM PEOPLE line as the country is going Ltd<br />
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soon. Meanwhile, EUROPE a group NEWS of IN activists BRIEF entered a Monsanto site<br />
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near Carcassonne in France’s Aude ©Informa region UK Ltd 2009 <strong>and</strong> emptied bags<br />
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containing MON810 MEETING MEETINGseed.<br />
preliminary” figures predict a 2% dip in the oat area to 479,800<br />
ha, <strong>and</strong> rises of 1% for rye (150,600 ha) <strong>and</strong> over 2% for<br />
triticale (102,400 ha). The figures for barley only compare sixrow<br />
barley, with the area falling by 3.2%. The total barley area<br />
PEOPLE<br />
for last year was expected to have reached almost 2.9 million ha<br />
(<strong>Agrow</strong> No 615, p 14).<br />
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n Portuguese MEETING agchem <strong>sales</strong> up 7% in 2011<br />
The Portuguese AMERICAS agrochemical NEWS IN market BRIEFrose<br />
by 6.6% in 2011<br />
www.agrow.com<br />
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to some €130.6 million ($166.9 million at the current rate),<br />
www.agrow.com<br />
according to official estimates from Statistics Portugal. That<br />
www.agrow.com<br />
would include a 5% increase in volumes <strong>and</strong> 1.6% higher<br />
prices. The national ASIA/AUSTRALASIA agrochemical NEWS association, IN BRIEF the Anipla, has<br />
Visit <strong>Agrow</strong>’s website at<br />
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yet to issue its market estimate. It reported almost €119 million<br />
($152 million) in <strong>sales</strong> for 2010 among its members (<strong>Agrow</strong> No<br />
611, p 14).<br />
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US EPA PRODUCTS plans NEWS registration IN BRIEF review US seizes imported orange juice<br />
meetings COMPANIES NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
The US Food <strong>and</strong> Drug Administration (FDA) has seized imports<br />
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of orange juice from Brazil <strong>and</strong> Canada following the detection<br />
The US EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs plans to consult<br />
registrants <strong>and</strong> EUROPE<br />
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other NEWS stakeholders<br />
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early in the registration<br />
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review process. The move is aimed at improving label clarity<br />
<strong>and</strong> reducing regulatory burdens on industry by refining data<br />
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requirements. PRODUCTS The OPP NEWS plans IN to BRIEF bring so-called “SMART<br />
meetings” into the process within the next 12 months. These<br />
meetings were AMERICAS EUROPE COMPANIES employed NEWS NEWS NEWS during IN IN BRIEF IN BRIEF the BRIEF<br />
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tolerance reassessment<br />
<strong>and</strong> re-registration PRODUCTS era to NEWS ensure IN BRIEF the EPA was using accurate<br />
application AGBIOTECH/RESEARCH AMERICAS<br />
rates in its risk assessments.<br />
EUROPE Products<br />
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The EPA has PRODUCTS discussed NEWS reintroducing IN BRIEF<br />
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SMART meetings with<br />
various stakeholders ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS <strong>and</strong> IN advisory BRIEFNEWS<br />
committees,<br />
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Pesticide Program EUROPE Dialogue NEWS IN Committee. BRIEF It plans to pilot different<br />
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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<br />
efficient manner. AMERICAS<br />
EUROPE The NEWS plans NEWS<br />
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progress report<br />
EUROPE<br />
on last<br />
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year’s<br />
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call<br />
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by President Barack Obama for<br />
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regulatory reforms. PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
of the fungicide, carbendazim. The FDA began testing imported<br />
juice in January after it was notified by a juice company in<br />
late December of the detection of the fungicide, which is not<br />
permitted in US juice (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 632, p 12).<br />
By February 2nd, the FDA had found at least 10 ppb of<br />
carbendazim in 20 shipments of orange juice. Nine of the<br />
shipments were from Canada <strong>and</strong> 11 were from Brazil. The<br />
agency detained or refused all of the shipments. The FDA has<br />
collected samples from 86 shipments AGROW | of No orange 564 | juice. March Of 27th the 66 2009<br />
for which analysis had been completed, 46 tested negative for<br />
carbendazim. Most came from Mexico (21) <strong>and</strong> Canada (14),<br />
with two each from Costa Rica, Belize, Honduras <strong>and</strong> Trinidad<br />
<strong>and</strong> Tobago, <strong>and</strong> one each from Brazil, Lebanon <strong>and</strong> Turkey.<br />
Testing of 14 samples of juice collected from domestic<br />
manufacturers found that five had no measurable residues of<br />
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Integrated pesticide PEOPLE registration reviews were listed among 19<br />
initiatives ear-marked ASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA NEWS for ROUND-UP “longer<br />
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term”<br />
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action in the EPA’s<br />
plans last August<br />
AMERICAS<br />
(<strong>Agrow</strong><br />
NEWS<br />
No 623,<br />
IN BRIEF<br />
p 13). Near-term examples of<br />
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“chemical bundling” EUROPE NEWS include IN initiating BRIEF registration reviews for<br />
neonicotinoid ASIA/AFRICA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA<br />
insecticides NEWS NEWS<br />
<strong>and</strong> ROUND-UP IN BRIEF<br />
sulfonylurea herbicides in the<br />
next 12-18 PEOPLE months, MEETINGthe<br />
EPA notes.<br />
carbendazim <strong>and</strong> nine contained between 13 ppb <strong>and</strong> 36 ppb<br />
of the fungicide. The EPA has determined that carbendazim<br />
residues lower than 80 ppb do not pose a health risk, the FDA<br />
points out. It believes that no action is needed to remove the<br />
product from the market.<br />
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reducing the<br />
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AMERICAS use of experimental animals in the testing of<br />
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pesticides <strong>and</strong> other chemicals. It aims to make greater use of<br />
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computational<br />
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<strong>and</strong> high-throughput<br />
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screening methods with<br />
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a view to increasing PEOPLE COMPANIES the efficiency NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
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of its endocrine disruptor<br />
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screening programme (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 631, p 12). The development<br />
of a process<br />
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PRODUCTS NEWS<br />
for validating NEWS NEWS IN<br />
these IN<br />
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“Tox BRIEF BRIEF IN BRIEF<br />
MEETING PRODUCTS NEWS IN BRIEF 21” methods will be<br />
carried out this year, with a peer review expected to take place<br />
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in 2013, the PRODUCTS EPA states NEWS in its IN progress BRIEF report.<br />
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Another priority area is the online electronic reporting of health<br />
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<strong>and</strong> safety data EUROPE PEOPLE NEWS<br />
for pesticides NEWS IN BRIEF<br />
www.agrow.com EUROPE NEWS IN BRIEF <strong>and</strong> BRIEF other chemicals. The EPA<br />
implemented EUROPE an electronic NEWS IN submission BRIEF option covering all<br />
significant aspects EUROPE of NEWS the pesticide IN BRIEF<br />
www.agrow.com registration <strong>and</strong> review<br />
www.agrow.com processes in October 2011.<br />
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US/Canada seek joint label<br />
expansions<br />
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The US <strong>and</strong> Canadian pesticide regulatory authorities aim to<br />
encourage the joint submission ©Informa of use UK expansions Ltd 2009 to the two<br />
countries with a view to fully aligning labels with minor-crop<br />
uses. The proposal is included in a draft work plan drawn up<br />
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by the US-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council. The Council<br />
was formed last year to increase regulatory transparency <strong>and</strong><br />
co-ordination between the two countries. It aims to build on the<br />
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work conducted by the NAFTA Technical Working Group over<br />
the past 20 years by further aligning product approvals <strong>and</strong><br />
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The work plan calls for the US EPA <strong>and</strong> the Canadian Pest<br />
Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) to conduct outreach with<br />
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n First glyphosate resistance in western Canada<br />
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Canadian government ASIA/AUSTRALASIA COMPANIES NEWS IN NEWS<br />
ASIA/AUSTRALASIA researchers NEWS BRIEF IN<br />
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IN confirmed BRIEF the presence<br />
of the first glyphosate-resistant weeds in western Canada. The<br />
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Agriculture <strong>and</strong> ASIA/AUSTRALASIA Agri-Food Canada NEWS scientists IN BRIEF found glyphosateresistant<br />
kochia PRODUCTS (Kochia NEWS scoparia) IN BRIEF in three fields in southern<br />
Alberta last year. PEOPLE The two other weed species with resistance<br />
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to glyphosate PEOPLE in Canada were found in Ontario. They were<br />
giant ragweed PEOPLE (Ambrosia ©Informa trifida) UK in Ltd 2009 <strong>and</strong> Canada fleabane<br />
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(Conyza canadensis) in 2011. Monsanto says that it has worked<br />
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with the researchers on the resistance findings <strong>and</strong> will develop<br />
registrants to discuss the joint submission of use expansions. It<br />
seeks the submission of a pilot application including a significant<br />
number of minor uses with domestic ©Informa <strong>and</strong> UK import Ltd 2009 MRLs/tolerances.<br />
The EPA <strong>and</strong> the PMRA would jointly review the pilot submission<br />
over a negotiated timeline of 15 months. The work plan calls for<br />
the initiation of discussions on the development of an incentive<br />
process for the joint submission of use expansions within 6-12<br />
months. The feasibility of adopting such joint submissions would<br />
be reviewed after 18 months.<br />
The initiative also calls for the development of joint guidelines<br />
for residue trials <strong>and</strong> the alignment of data collection procedures<br />
recommendations MEETING<br />
for affected farmers. It stresses that the<br />
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kochia resistance was detected in “chem-fallow” www.agrow.com fields rather 1<br />
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than in glyphosate-tolerant MEETING Roundup Ready crops.<br />
for those trials. Ultimately, each country could accept the other’s<br />
reviews, which would result in concurrent, aligned decisions. The<br />
draft work plan is open to public until January 25th 2013.<br />
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South American region seeks<br />
flexible agchem approvals<br />
The South American customs union the Andean Community’s<br />
(CAN) pesticides committee, the Cotasa de Plaguicidas, wants<br />
to “rationalise <strong>and</strong> make flexible” the harmonised agricultural<br />
use pesticide agrochemical registration process. CAN member<br />
state representatives from Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador <strong>and</strong> Peru<br />
met late last year at the 120th Cotasa reunion, <strong>and</strong> produced<br />
three joint initiatives.<br />
They agreed to adopt amendments to Resolution 630<br />
covering the data required from an applicant for a product<br />
registration, <strong>and</strong> what modifications a registrant can request<br />
to a registration. Resolution 630 of 2002, along with Decision<br />
436 of 1998, set the harmonised pesticide registration regime<br />
in the union (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 422, p 21).<br />
The amendments would establish requirements for the<br />
following policies: the processing of <strong>new</strong> authorisations of<br />
an approved pesticide under a different name; defining the<br />
conditions for adding manufacturers, formulators <strong>and</strong> the<br />
countries of origin for an approved pesticide; <strong>and</strong> regulating<br />
the requirements for r<strong>ais</strong>ing the application rate of an approved<br />
pesticide <strong>and</strong> re-setting its toxicological category.<br />
The first of those is designed to allow the agrochemical<br />
industry to develop strategies for supplying the same product<br />
with different names in separate niche markets <strong>and</strong> different<br />
trading conditions, while the second would aim to facilitate<br />
<strong>and</strong> exp<strong>and</strong> product supplies in domestic markets, while<br />
responding to moves in international markets, the Cotasa<br />
explains.<br />
The meeting also considered the flexibility in the requirements<br />
for the registration of active ingredients that are under patent<br />
or data protection.<br />
The Cotasa called on the secretary general of the CAN to<br />
process the amendments of the Resolution <strong>and</strong> Decision as<br />
soon as possible to improve member states’ competitiveness.<br />
It further called for member states to evaluate the possibility<br />
of establishing harmonised procedures <strong>and</strong> requirements<br />
for the registration <strong>and</strong> control of plant growth regulators<br />
<strong>and</strong> adjuvants, including their import, export, manufacture,<br />
formulation, packaging <strong>and</strong> distribution.<br />
The meeting supported three proposals, which it decided “to<br />
move on in the short to medium term”. The first concerns<br />
a project for setting maximum residue limits (MRLs) on<br />
four “low toxicity” pesticides. The Cotasa hopes to gain the<br />
support of the WTO <strong>and</strong> the USDA on the project, which covers<br />
Syngenta’s fungicide, azoxystrobin, <strong>and</strong> three insecticides:<br />
DuPont’s chlorantraniliprole, Dow AgroSciences’ spinetoram<br />
<strong>and</strong> Sumitomo Chemical’s pyriproxyfen.<br />
It would not only grant access to significant international<br />
resources but also lead to the inclusion of Codex Alimentarius<br />
MRLs that can subsequently be extrapolated to more than 20<br />
tropical plants of the region, facilitating exports particularly to<br />
the EU, the Conasa notes.<br />
The second supported proposal was to take part in the second<br />
global minor-use summit (GMUS-II), which takes place this<br />
month <strong>and</strong> to which Colombia was invited as a member of the<br />
advisory committee. The summit is of particular significance<br />
to CAN member states in facilitating internationally recognised<br />
approvals of products for use on minor crops. The last adopted<br />
proposal was for the creation of a network of laboratories across<br />
the region for the control of pesticide formulations <strong>and</strong> residues.<br />
Earlier in 2011, the secretary general of the CAN launched a<br />
project in association with the FAO to improve the control of<br />
pesticide use in the region. The secretary general accepted that<br />
highly toxic pesticides continued to be used in the region. The<br />
project was scheduled to last two years, <strong>and</strong> would include the<br />
establishment of the regional laboratory network among other<br />
capacity r<strong>ais</strong>ing goals of a technically improved registration<br />
system <strong>and</strong> post-registration controls.<br />
INTELLIGENCE<br />
South/Central Am agchem <strong>sales</strong><br />
up 30% in 2011<br />
The agrochemical market for South <strong>and</strong> Central America rose<br />
by 29.7% in 2011 to $10,875 million, industry association<br />
CropLife Latin America reports. The association cites preliminary<br />
figures from market research company Phillips McDougal <strong>and</strong><br />
includes the <strong>sales</strong> from all of its national affiliate markets except<br />
Mexico. After currency effects <strong>and</strong> inflation are removed, the<br />
adjusted growth was of some 15.3%.<br />
Brazil accounted for over 70% of <strong>sales</strong> at just over $7,800<br />
million, below mooted expectations in the country of breaching<br />
the Dow’s $8,000 million <strong>new</strong> mark. sulfoximine The next largest compound<br />
market, Argentina,<br />
saw estimated <strong>sales</strong> of $1,271 million. That would be heavily<br />
Recent published patents from Dow AgroSciences divulge activity<br />
down around on the a certain estimated N-sulfoximine 2010 national compound market, with insecticidal which was<br />
reported properties. to have The compound, risen by 28% according in 2010 to the to claims over $1,600 from US million<br />
(<strong>Agrow</strong> patent No No 615, 20100152245A1 p 24). entitled “Insecticidal N-substituted<br />
(6-haloalkylpyridin-3-yl)-alkyl sulfoximines” of June 2010, describes<br />
The the figures general show structure three of other the active South ingredient American <strong>and</strong> nations the preferences saw <strong>sales</strong><br />
regarding its radicals.<br />
above $100 million in 2011, namely Colombia with $374<br />
million, The preferred Chile at structure $200 million, is: <strong>and</strong> Ecuador ($168 million).<br />
The next largest markets were closely bunched with Venezuela<br />
at $81 million, followed by Bolivia ($75 million) <strong>and</strong> Peru ($72<br />
million), while the combined <strong>sales</strong> in the Central American<br />
states such as Guatemala <strong>and</strong> Costa Rica amounted to $440<br />
million.<br />
The overall rise for the area was the largest regional increase<br />
in the world, the report notes. Strong economies, favourable<br />
weather conditions, the strengthening of the Brazilian currency,<br />
<strong>and</strong> The the compound incidence is said of the to be soybean active against disease, pests frog that eye have leaf become spot<br />
(Cercospora<br />
resistant to<br />
sojina),<br />
one or more<br />
as well<br />
insecticides<br />
as rising<br />
currently<br />
dem<strong>and</strong><br />
on<br />
for<br />
the<br />
cotton<br />
market,<br />
<strong>and</strong><br />
as it<br />
either has a <strong>new</strong> mode of action or an atypical one. Pests targeted<br />
sugar include cane aphids, supported plant hoppers, growth. leafhoppers, <strong>and</strong> whiteflies when<br />
used on food <strong>and</strong> non-food crops.<br />
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Intelligence <strong>and</strong> read through<br />
profile No. P0232.<br />
For enquiries, please email the <strong>Agrow</strong> Intelligence editor,<br />
Leila Nabih, at leila.nabih@informa.com.<br />
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seized (see this issue, p13). The US authorities have reportedly<br />
indicated that a decision will be taken shortly on whether to<br />
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orchards. Brazil dominates such imports into the US.<br />
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the need for those applying ©Informa to register UK Ltd 2009 products formulated in<br />
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covering the 12 months until the end of June 2011. That included<br />
some 78% that had been tripled rinsed. By that time, some 450<br />
tonnes had been collected since the Apia programme was initiated<br />
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in 2005. Annual collections first reached 100 tonnes in 2009<br />
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spray drift in 2010 (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 592, p 24).<br />
n New EUROPE Zeal<strong>and</strong> MEETING NEWS mulls IN BRIEF <strong>new</strong> potato insecticide<br />
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to African farmers. The continent has one of the lowest levels<br />
of farm productivity in the world as a result of the absence<br />
of agricultural technologies to deal with pests <strong>and</strong> diseases<br />
that face the region’s smallholder farmers, the partners say.<br />
The Foundation works in eight sub-Sahara African countries.<br />
Priority areas for the Foundation include addressing the<br />
impact of climate change in agriculture; pest management;<br />
soil management, nutrient enhancement in foods; improved<br />
breeding methods; <strong>and</strong> mechanisation. These are addressed<br />
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The CCPIA expects global requirements for glyphosate over the<br />
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tonnes <strong>and</strong> 650,000 tonnes. As the number of manufacturers<br />
declines, it hopes that the “blind competition” in the market<br />
that has driven prices down will also be reduced.<br />
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Bayer debuts fluopyram in Turkey<br />
Bayer CropScience has debuted a fungicide formulation based<br />
on its <strong>new</strong> active ingredient, fluopyram, in Turkey. The country<br />
granted registration late last year, <strong>and</strong> it is the first confirmed<br />
product approval for a fungicide based on the active ingredient.<br />
Luna Experience (fluopyram 200 g/litre + tebuconazole 200<br />
g/litre) is a suspension concentrate formulation for use on<br />
nine crops, including apples for the control of scab (Venturia<br />
inaequalis), on grapevines against powdery mildew (Uncinula<br />
necator), cherries against brown rot (Monilinia laxa), <strong>and</strong><br />
tomatoes, aubergines <strong>and</strong> peppers for the control of tomato<br />
powdery mildew (Leveillula taurica). It is safe for bees <strong>and</strong> nontarget<br />
organisms, Bayer notes.<br />
Fluopyram comes from the pyridylethylbenzamide family of<br />
fungicides. It is a succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor (SDHI).<br />
Fluopyram was developed for use on over 70 crops, <strong>and</strong> was<br />
unveiled in 2009 (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 567, p 23). Recommended<br />
application rates for the ai range from 0.2-0.5 litres/ha.<br />
The US EPA has recently proposed the registration of five<br />
fungicide products based on fluopyram, some in formulation<br />
with other <strong>ais</strong>, including Luna Experience (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 631, p<br />
20). The EU registration application for the <strong>new</strong> fungicide was<br />
declared complete in 2009, <strong>and</strong> first member state approvals<br />
were expected by 2011 for use on grapevines <strong>and</strong> strawberries<br />
(<strong>Agrow</strong> No 567, p 23).<br />
<strong>BASF</strong> br<strong>and</strong>s <strong>new</strong> dicamba<br />
Engenia<br />
<strong>BASF</strong> plans to apply for US approval for a <strong>new</strong> formulation of<br />
the herbicide, dicamba, under the Engenia br<strong>and</strong> this year. It is<br />
intended for use on Monsanto’s genetically modified dicambatolerant<br />
soybeans. “Engenia will be an important <strong>new</strong> tool for<br />
soybean growers battling herbicide-resistant weeds, like Palmer<br />
amaranth, waterhemp [both Amaranthus spp] <strong>and</strong> marestail<br />
[Conyza canadensis],” says Paul Rea, vice-president of <strong>BASF</strong>’s<br />
US crop protection business. Research on advances in dicamba<br />
formulations <strong>and</strong> the use of the herbicide on dicamba-tolerant<br />
crops was presented at the US Southern Weed Science Society<br />
annual meeting last month.<br />
<strong>BASF</strong> <strong>and</strong> Monsanto have been collaborating on the<br />
development of dicamba formulations for use on GM soybeans<br />
for the past three years. The companies entered into a licensing<br />
agreement covering the commercialisation of the herbicides last<br />
year (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 612, p 2).<br />
<strong>BASF</strong> expects to receive US approval for Engenia prior to the<br />
commercialisation of Monsanto’s Genuity Roundup Ready 2<br />
Yield dicamba-tolerant soybeans. Its first stacks of dicamba<br />
tolerance <strong>and</strong> glyphosate tolerance are being lined up for<br />
on-farm testing in 2013, with a commercial launch planned<br />
for 2014 (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 631, p 4). Monsanto is also developing<br />
dicamba-tolerant cotton, maize <strong>and</strong> canola.<br />
JANUARY 2011<br />
The US Patent <strong>and</strong> Trademark Office in December published<br />
a total of 53 patent applications from 28 different assignees,<br />
covering genetically modified plants <strong>and</strong> methods of producing<br />
them.<br />
Two were for input traits, one of which, from Bayer<br />
CropScience, concerned a chimeric gene construct conferring<br />
resistance to several different classes of herbicides. There were<br />
27 applications published that concerned output traits, including<br />
15 claiming improvements to stress tolerance or increasing<br />
yield. Methods of altering the content of GM plants accounted<br />
for nine applications. These included a pair of filings from <strong>BASF</strong><br />
concerning the production of arachidonic <strong>and</strong> eicosapentaenoic<br />
acid in plants using desaturase enzymes derived from algae.<br />
Three applications concerned methods of altering plant<br />
phenotypes.<br />
A further 24 applications concerned other aspects of<br />
biotechnology, such as <strong>new</strong>ly identified promoters, expressed<br />
sequence tags or transformation methods. The latter included<br />
two filings from Dow AgroSciences for nanoparticle-mediated<br />
transformation methods.<br />
DuPont, including seed subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred<br />
International, dominated the field with 15 applications published.<br />
Its closest rival was Monsanto, which had six filings published.<br />
<strong>BASF</strong>, Ceres <strong>and</strong> Dow each had three applications published.<br />
Bayer <strong>and</strong> the US Michigan State University each had two<br />
applications published.<br />
To browse the complete list of selected patents, please log in at:<br />
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For enquiries, please email the Plant Biotech editor,<br />
Hazel Blake, at hazel.blake@informa.com.<br />
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US approval for TwinLink cotton<br />
Bayer CropScience has received US EPA approval for its<br />
genetically modified insect-resistant <strong>and</strong> herbicide-tolerant<br />
TwinLink cotton. It is the final regulatory step for the cotton<br />
in the US following USDA deregulation last year (<strong>Agrow</strong> No<br />
626, p 24). TwinLink cotton expresses the Bt Cry1Ab toxin<br />
from event T304-40 <strong>and</strong> the Cry2Ae toxin from event GHB119<br />
for the control of lepidopteran pests such as bollworms<br />
(Helicoverpa zea), tobacco budworms (Heliothis virescens) <strong>and</strong><br />
fall armyworms (Spodoptera frugiperda). It is also tolerant to the<br />
herbicide, glufosinate-ammonium.<br />
stacks . . .<br />
Bayer plans to stack TwinLink with its glyphosate-tolerant GlyTol<br />
cotton, which it introduced in the US last year (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 607,<br />
p 24). The company Products<br />
expects the first cotton varieties with the<br />
stacked TwinLink <strong>and</strong> GlyTol traits to be available in the US from<br />
2013, subject to regulatory approvals in key import countries.<br />
TwinLink has been approved in Australia/New Zeal<strong>and</strong>, Brazil<br />
<strong>and</strong> Canada.<br />
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combination will be the<br />
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n US food-use approval for flazasulfuron<br />
The US EPA<br />
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food-use approval of Ishihara<br />
Sangyo K<strong>ais</strong>ha’s sulfonylurea herbicide, flazasulfuron. The<br />
approval expansion would cover citrus fruit, grapevines <strong>and</strong><br />
sugar cane, as well as the additional non-food uses of Christmas<br />
trees <strong>and</strong> industrial vegetation management areas. Flazasulfuron<br />
is currently approved AMERICAS for NEWS use on ROUND-UP turf. The latest approval<br />
decision was open to public comment until January 20th.<br />
n US exemption for Bioworks’ biofungicide<br />
The US EPA AUSTRALASIA has established NEWS a tolerance IN BRIEFexemption<br />
for the<br />
biofungicide, Trichoderma virens strain G-41, for all food<br />
commodities. The Agency proposed the approval of two products<br />
from biopesticide company BioWorks (Victor, New York) based<br />
on T virens strain G41 in December (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 631, p 21).<br />
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n US OKs Bayer cereal herbicide mix<br />
Bayer CropScience has received US approval for a <strong>new</strong> cereal<br />
herbicide based MEETING on established active ingredients. Huskie<br />
Complete (pyrasulfotole + thiencarbazone-methyl + bromoxynil<br />
+ mefenpyr-diethyl safener) is for the post-emergence control<br />
of a range of grasses <strong>and</strong> broadleaf weeds in spring, winter<br />
<strong>and</strong> durum wheat.<br />
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maize herbicide in a cereal herbicide mixture (<strong>Agrow</strong> No 620,<br />
p 23). Bayer PRODUCTS received US NEWS approval IN BRIEF for pyrasulfotole on cereals<br />
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n Nufarm has appointed Greg Hunt as group executive, global<br />
marketing <strong>and</strong> MEETING business Products<br />
development. He is a former managing<br />
director of the agribuisiness group, Elders Australia. Mr Hunt<br />
succeeds Dale Mellody, who moves to a <strong>new</strong> executive role<br />
covering the global supply chain <strong>and</strong> strategic procurement.<br />
n China National<br />
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2006 <strong>and</strong> established its global resources division, combining<br />
all of the group’s PRODUCTS operational NEWS activities IN BRIEFincluding<br />
manufacturing,<br />
supply chain, procurement <strong>and</strong> R&D. The company has also<br />
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resources effective April 1st; <strong>and</strong> Rony Patishi-Chillim as senior<br />
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n The US pesticide development company, Vestaron<br />
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n <strong>BASF</strong> has WORLD/AUSTRALASIA ASIA/AUSTRALASIA appointed Products<br />
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manager for its insecticide/termiticide, Termidor (fipronil). Mr<br />
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n patent US President No 20100152245A1 Barack Obama entitled has “Insecticidal nominated N-substituted Jim Jones as<br />
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AGROW | No 633 | February 8th 2012 AgBiotech Extra/Research<br />
New model confirms refuge values<br />
Researchers from the US University of Arizona (Tucson) <strong>and</strong><br />
others have developed a <strong>new</strong> method to assess the effectiveness<br />
of refuge strategies in delaying the emergence of pests resistant<br />
to insecticides. The method is based on results of an eightyear,<br />
large-scale study involving 84 cotton fields in central<br />
Arizona <strong>and</strong> takes into account variations in surrounding crop<br />
types <strong>and</strong> distances between treated fields <strong>and</strong> refuge areas.<br />
The study looked at the effects of the insecticide, pyriproxyfen,<br />
on whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci). Data from the first four years<br />
of the study were used to develop spatially explicit statistical<br />
models that identified the crops affecting local variations in pest<br />
resistance <strong>and</strong> the maximum range of any effects.<br />
The researchers found that annual spatial variation in resistance<br />
was not affected by refuges in near-by melon or alfalfa crops.<br />
Resistance was negatively associated with the area of cotton<br />
refuges <strong>and</strong> positively associated with the area of cotton<br />
treated with pyriproxyfen. The model was validated over the<br />
following four years by predicting resistance at the l<strong>and</strong>scape<br />
level. Results confirmed that the provision of refuges for cotton<br />
delayed the evolution of resistance <strong>and</strong> fields treated with<br />
pyriproxyfen accelerated the evolution of resistance. The <strong>new</strong><br />
method <strong>and</strong> framework could help refine the refuge strategy for<br />
many key COMPANIES pests, the NEWS researchers ROUND-UP suggest.<br />
Details of the study have been published in the US journal,<br />
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<br />
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Study finds budworms cause of<br />
soybean GBS<br />
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Researchers from a trio of US universities have identified insect<br />
pests as the cause of green bean syndrome (GBS) in soybeans,<br />
rather than micro-organisms as previously believed. Pods on<br />
soybeans affected by GBS do not mature at the same rate on the<br />
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plant, so that half the pods on a plant may be ready for harvest<br />
while the rest are still green, the researchers note. The syndrome<br />
rarely affects an entire field, but is usually confined to small<br />
areas within it.<br />
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Field observations over the past two years indicate that<br />
budworms (Helicoverpa zea) are the underlying cause of GBS,<br />
the researchers say. Their findings suggest that high levels of<br />
seed abortions <strong>and</strong> de-podding, likely due to budworm feeding,<br />
cause PEOPLE physiological changes in plants that result in delayed <strong>and</strong><br />
uneven maturity of pods.<br />
The researchers also cite studies in which soybeans were either<br />
deliberately MEETINGS de-podded or were exposed to heavy infestations of<br />
pod-feeding stink bugs or other pests. The results show that any<br />
stress that interferes with pod setting, filling or retention can<br />
cause uneven pod maturity.<br />
In addition, DNA sequencing analysis of plants affected with<br />
GBS did ASIA/AUSTRALASIA/AFRICA not detect any trace of known NEWS IN soybean BRIEF pathogens such<br />
as phytoplasma or viruses.<br />
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Priming plant defences has<br />
heritable benefits<br />
Two research projects conducted by current <strong>and</strong> former members<br />
of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR)<br />
in Plant Survival have shown that priming a plant’s defences<br />
also increases disease or pest resistance in its descendants.<br />
In one study, researchers from the Swiss University of Neuchatel<br />
treated thale cress plants with either b-amino-butyric acid or an<br />
avirulent isolate of Pseudomonas spp bacteria to prime defence<br />
responses. Both substances are harmless to the environment<br />
<strong>and</strong> are simple to apply, the researchers note. The descendants<br />
of primed plants reacted more quickly <strong>and</strong> strongly when<br />
challenged with a mildew vector <strong>and</strong> pathogenic bacteria.<br />
Transcription rates of defence-related genes were also increased<br />
more rapidly.<br />
Similar trans-generational beneficial effects, this time against<br />
herbivorous pests, were found in a second project using thale<br />
cress <strong>and</strong> tomatoes. In this case, plants were primed using<br />
either methyl jasmonate or by exposing the parent plants to<br />
caterpillar feeding. The results showed that caterpillars feeding<br />
on plants whose parents had been primed developed much<br />
slower <strong>and</strong> their size was reduced by half.<br />
In both cases, positive trans-generational effects were<br />
maintained for two generations. However, plant defence<br />
responses returned to normal levels if second-generation plants<br />
were not also primed. The phenomenon helps plants adapt to a<br />
hostile environment, the researchers believe.<br />
promising strategy . . .<br />
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These characteristics make the application of defence elicitors a<br />
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Paradoxically, these wounds reinforce the plant’s resistance,<br />
which will then be transmitted to the next generation, they add.<br />
Details of the studies have been published in the journal Plant<br />
Physiology.<br />
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