China’s dicamba market development status and analysis of major companies in 2022

Dicamba, also known as dicamba, is a low-toxicity selective herbicide with systemic conductivity and significant control effect on annual and perennial broadleaf weeds. It is used for the control of grass crops such as wheat, corn, millet, and rice. Pigtails, buckwheat vines, pigweed, chickweed, cabbage, lettuce, cocklebur, thinweed, bindweed, spinach, horsetail, carp intestine, etc. Pesticides refer to one or more substances that are chemically synthesized or derived from organisms or other natural substances used to prevent, eliminate or control diseases, insects, weeds and other harmful organisms that harm agriculture and forestry, and to purposefully regulate the growth of plants and insects. Mixtures of substances and their preparations are important agricultural production materials.

The “2022-2026 Dicamba Industry In-depth Market Research and Investment Strategy Suggestions Report compiled and released by the Industrial Research Center shows that dicamba It was first developed by Velsicol Chemical Company. According to the raw materials, the synthesis process is mainly divided into synthesis using 2,5-dichlorophenol as raw material, synthesis using 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene as raw material, and using 2,5-dichloroaniline as raw material. Synthesis, using 2-amino-3,6-dichlorobenzoic acid as raw material and 2,5-dichloro-4-bromophenol as raw material. At present, the industrial production of dicamba technical material is mainly produced by using trichlorobenzene as raw material through hydrolysis, carboxylation, and etherification reactions. BASF and Changqing Co., Ltd. use the trichlorobenzene method. Yangnong Chemical uses 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene as raw material and produces it through hydrolysis, fractional crystallization, carboxylation, and O-alkylation.

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, an important global food exporter, global food prices have increased, and countries have further increased their emphasis on food security. As an important means of production, the market of pesticides will also be affected. The price of dicamba market has continued to decline in recent years, mainly due to the relatively stable demand for dicamba. At the same time, due to the high expectations for the promotion of genetically modified crops in the past few years, some companies have expanded their dicamba production capacity, and some new entrants have also led to intensified competition in the industry. . With the promotion of dicamba-resistant genetically modified crops launched by global agricultural giants such as Monsanto, the market sales of dicamba are expected to grow.

At present, the world’s major dicamba manufacturers include BASF, Evergreen, China Agricultural United, Syngenta, and Yangnong Chemical. Among them, Yangnong Chemical is the world’s largest supplier of dicamba, with a production capacity of 20,000 tons, accounting for 38% of the global production capacity. %. Jiangsu Yangnong Chemical Co., Ltd. was established in 1999. It is a national key high-tech enterprise and a pyrethroid pesticide production base in China. It has now formed a diversified enterprise with pyrethroids as the core, pesticides as the leading role, and fine chemicals as the supplement. product landscape. Changqing Co., Ltd. will put into production an additional 6,000 tons of dicamba in the second half of 2021. The current total dicamba production capacity has reached 17,000 tons. Evergreen Co., Ltd. focuses on the research, development, production and sales of herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and other pesticide preparations. Its products mainly include imidacloprid, dicamba, metolachlor, clethodim, acifluorfen, etc.