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A full decade in the making, the European Chemicals Agency’s long-debated Regulation on the Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) reached its first deadline today, requiring companies to submit registration dossiers of chemicals they wish to continue to manufacture and market.

Failure to register dossiers with the European Chemicals Agency could result in the in the stoppage of production, trade or marketing of unregistered chemicals.

Late last week, Both Arkema and Rhodia complete their initial phase of REACH registrations.

This week, Bayer successfully registered125 high-volume chemicals under the REACH regulation.

The next important deadline is June 1, 2013, by which time all substances produced or imported in volumes between 100 tonnes and 1,000 tonnes per year must be in full registration compliance. The final reregistration for substances that were already being produced when REACH was enacted is June 1, 2018.

Visit REACH’s website for more information, enforcement policies and compliance guidelines.

Source: farmchemicalsinternational 2010-11-30

According to the customs, the value of Chinese export of pesticides in third quarter 2010 was $380 million up 20%, year on year. The export volume was 132,000 tons, up 18.6%.

Driven by the economic rebound, the cumulative export for the first three quarters was $1.28 billion, up 16.6%, and volume was 440,000 tons up 13.8%.

By product categories, first three quarters export values were $413 million for insecticides, up 21.5% year on year; $199.7 million for fungicides, up 35.6%; $652 million for herbicides and plant growth regulators, up 44.2%. By volume, the cumulative volumes were 128,000 tons for insecticides, up 33%; 47,500 tons for fungicides, up 34.7%; 256,000 tons for herbicides and plant growth regulators, up 52.5%. 

 Source: Agropages2010-11-30

The Chinese pesticide industry has invested 2.08 billion Yuan in fix asset in the month of August 2010, jumped by 86.0% year on year. The investment on chemical pesticide was 1.27 billion, up 71.7%, while investment on biopesticide was 0.81 billion Yuan, up 113.6%, both continued a downward from July.

The cumulative investment for the period of January to August this year was 16.77 billion Yuan, which accounting for 38.5% of the planned investment, posted a 36.2% rise. The biopesticide industry has invested 6.96 billion Yuan, grown by 70.8%, and the proportion for total pesticide has increased by 8.4% to 41.5%, while the investment on chemical pesticide was 9.81 billion Yuan, up 19.1%.

During period of January to August, 388 investment projects were under constructed, up 6.0%.

The number of the newly undertook projects as grown by 6 to 240, including 150 chemical pesticide projects and 90 biopesticide projects. The number of the completed projects was 154, grown by 36, thereinto 109 projects on chemical pesticides and 45 for biopesticide.

Source: Agropages.com2010-11-26 

Eve Runno-Paursons dissertation examined the Estonian population of the disease-causing agent, a water mold, and found that rather than a less dangerous historical form spread by wind and rain, the organism was reproducing sexually.

The blight, which caused the Irish potato famine 150 years ago and is still a costly, thorny problem for agronomists, has been striking fields a month earlier in recent years and showing fungicide resistance.

It also underwent a sea change in its reproductive biology during this period, from a largely wind and rain-borne problem to having the capacity for sexual reproduction.

Genetic fingerprinting showed that the Estonian population was unique and diverse, with most of the local genotypes not found elsewhere.

Even so, the Estonian population was similar in some respects to Russian and Nordic populations, leading to the conclusion that genetic transfer is fairly strong. Thats despite the fact that Estonian producers grow most of their seed potatoes themselves, with only 5 percent imported from the Netherlands.

The mold does not remain active forever, and the dissertation pointed up the importance of crop cycles with a four-year fallow period.

Source: ERR NEWS 2010-11-25 

The first pesticide centre that processes products used to heal and prevent vegetable diseases has been inaugurated in Kenya by 20 African member countries in order to ensure food self-sufficiency, PANA learnt Friday from sources in Kigali.

The centre will enhance capacity building for researchers involved in the fight against vegetable diseases that affect subsistence and export crops in Africa, including banana, coffee, leguminous plants, the Centre for Phytosanitary Excellence (COPE), said.

The member countries of the initiative are Cameroon, Congo, Zambia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa, Comoros, Mauritius, Madagascar, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Malawi, Angola and all the member countries of the East African Economic Community (EAEC) -- Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi, Uganda and Rwanda.

Source: AFRICA NEWS2010-11-16 0:00:00

Argentina, the world’s second- largest corn exporter, is in talks with China on a so-called sanitary protocol that would allow it to export the grain to the Asian nation, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.

The South American country expects to speed up discussions with China next year to become an alternative supplier, it said in a statement Nov. 12, without giving further details. China’s Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu held talks with his counterpart Julian Dominguez on Friday in Argentina.

China, the second-biggest corn consumer, has bought about 1.5 million tons of the U.S. grain this year, the most since about 1995, as the government sought to cool domestic futures prices that gained 36 percent in the past year. Prices surged 33 percent in Chicago. China and Argentina have been involved in a range of trade disputes from soybean oil to textiles.

"It’s in both countries’ interests to resume corn trade,” said Li Qiang, managing director at Shanghai JC Intelligence Co., by phone from Shanghai today. China’s imports, including dried distillers grains with solubles, may top 5 million tons in terms of corn equivalent in 2011, Li said.

Argentine farmers will likely harvest a record 26 million tons from the corn crop currently being planted, according to agricultural ministry forecasts. The harvest will take place in the first half of 2011 and is about 70 percent planted, according to the Buenos Aires Cereals Exchange.

Export Quota

The government is yet to announce the size of the export quota. Dominguez said in a statement earlier this month that it may reach 18.5 million tons, compared to 15 million for the 2009-2010 season crop. Dominguez is also scheduled to meet with Chinese officials in Beijing from Nov. 29 to Dec. 1.

The Asian nation halted corn shipments from Argentina because of restrictions on genetically modified imports, the China National Grain and Oils Information Center said today. About 80 percent of the corn crop in Argentina is genetically modified, it said, without elaborating.

The two countries need to work out a “phytosanitary agreement,” said Li from Shanghai JC. “The earliest possible outcome is the middle of 2011,” he said.

Corn futures rose 11.25 cents, or 2.1 percent, to $5.5925 cents a bushel as of 9:33 a.m on the Chicago Board of Trade.

Source: bloomberg2010-11-22