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Qingyuan Agricultural Crown's Cyclobunofen Receives Official ISO Common Name
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Qingyuan Agricultural Crown's Cyclobunofen Receives Official ISO Common Name

On December 10th, the ISO/TC 81 Pesticide Nomenclature Technical Committee approved "cyclobunofen" (Chinese common name: 硝苯菌酰胺), a patented compound from Qingyuan Agricultural Crown Crop Science Co., Ltd., as its official ISO common name. As a new-generation fungicide/nematicide, it effectively controls various key diseases and nematodes, with high crop safety and an extended residual period.

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Customs Seizes Pesticide Smuggling for Export via False Commodity Name Declaration
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Customs Seizes Pesticide Smuggling for Export via False Commodity Name Declaration

In May 2025, a Qingdao-based chemical company, without obtaining an export pesticide registration certificate for indolebutyric acid, falsely declared 150 kilograms of the involved goods as "99% 6-benzylaminopurine technical material" and entrusted a customs declaration company for export, which was seized by Mengding Customs. Professional testing confirmed the goods were actually indolebutyric acid with a 99% mass fraction, and the party's act constituted smuggling. In accordance with relevant laws and regulations, the customs imposed an administrative penalty of confiscating all the involved goods.

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Su Yan’s Phenamacril & Xianda’s Flupropazine Secure Interim ISO Common Name Approval
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Su Yan’s Phenamacril & Xianda’s Flupropazine Secure Interim ISO Common Name Approval

On December 5th, ISO/TC 81 (Pesticide Nomenclature Technical Committee) provisionally approved two pesticide common names: amfenamacril, a fungicide co-developed by Jiangsu Pesticide Research Institute Co., Ltd. and Zhejiang University (20x more active against Fusarium graminearum than phenamacril); and triflupyroxazin, a new non-selective herbicide from Liaoning Cynda Chemical Co., Ltd. with excellent efficacy against resistant weeds, targeting a paraquat-scale market. Both include detailed specifications (chemical names, molecular formulas, etc.) and sponsor information.

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Update and Key Changes of China’s Fertilizer Registration, Renewal Registration, and Change Registration Guidelines
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Update and Key Changes of China’s Fertilizer Registration, Renewal Registration, and Change Registration Guidelines

In October 2025, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs updated the three administrative guidelines for Fertilizer Registration, Renewal Registration, and Modification Registration. Key changes include: raising the requirements for field trials, specifying that the trial supervisor must be an in-service staff member with a senior professional title; standardizing application materials, clarifying that domestic and international applicants need to submit quality control documents, production and sales certificates (overseas documents require embassy or consulate authentication), and product label samples; strengthening safety commitments, requiring a compliance statement with the mandatory national standard Limit Requirements for Toxic and Harmful Substances in Fertilizers (GB 38400-2019); and advancing digitalization of procedures, with registration certificates shifting to electronic format, acceptance of electronic submissions, elimination of sample re-testing applications, and clarification of the re-application pathway. Enterprises should promptly review and adjust their application strategies to ensure compliant and efficient completion of registration, renewal, and modification processes.

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ICAMA October Registration Overview: 525 Pesticide Products Approved, with Breakthroughs in Domestic Technical Materials and Green Formulations as Highlights
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ICAMA October Registration Overview: 525 Pesticide Products Approved, with Breakthroughs in Domestic Technical Materials and Green Formulations as Highlights

From October 2 to November 1, 2025, the Institute for the Control of Agrochemicals, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People's Republic of China (ICAMA) completed the monthly pesticide product registration approval process, officially approving 525 pesticide products for registration during this period. The registration covers 38 pesticide technical materials (including 1 product exclusively for export to Cambodia) and 2 pesticide technical concentrates, involving 203 different active ingredients, 24 product formulations, and 202 pesticide manufacturing enterprises. From an industry development perspective, this registration not only intuitively reflects the vigorous vitality of China's pesticide industry in terms of production capacity supply and technological R&D but also presents a series of distinctive and indicator-significant trends in key areas such as domestic technical materials breaking foreign monopolies, product structure upgrading towards green and high efficiency, and optimization of market competition patterns. It provides strong support for the implementation of China's agricultural "reduction and efficiency enhancement" strategy and the high-quality development of the pesticide industry.

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The Reform of China's Pesticide Administration Regulations and Industry Development Trends in 2025
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The Reform of China's Pesticide Administration Regulations and Industry Development Trends in 2025

2025 marks a crucial year for the iterative upgrading of China's pesticide administration regulatory system. In the middle of the year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs successively revised four core regulations, including the Measures for the Administration of Pesticide Registration, the Measures for the Administration of Pesticide Production Licenses, the Measures for the Administration of Pesticide Operation Licenses, and the Measures for the Administration of Pesticide Labels and Instructions. This revision is not a simple adjustment of clauses but a systematic reshaping of the industry ecology from the perspective of the entire industrial chain. This report aims to analyze the core points of this round of regulatory reforms, the structural adjustment direction of export registration, and propose practical strategies to solve key registration problems and AI-enabled paths, providing references for enterprises to adapt to the new normal of the industry. The research covers the entire-process regulations of pesticide registration, production, operation, and label management as well as the adjustment of export registration policies. It adopts the literature research method to sort out the changes in regulatory provisions, analyzes the impact of policy implementation combined with industry practices, and verifies the feasibility of strategies through cases.

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Pesticide Registration Pitfall Avoidance Guide: Key Scenarios to Evade in Advance
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Pesticide Registration Pitfall Avoidance Guide: Key Scenarios to Evade in Advance

Pesticide registration is a crucial link in ensuring the quality and safety of agricultural products, ecological and environmental safety, and human health. However, "long registration cycle and high investment cost" are common challenges faced by many pesticide enterprises. Once a registration application is not approved, all previous investment costs of the enterprise, such as R&D and testing, will be wasted, and the precious time cost is even more irrecoverable. Therefore, it is particularly important for enterprises to conduct sufficient research in the early stage of registration and accurately grasp the product safety, effectiveness and relevant registration policy requirements. Combining industry regulatory practices, this article sorts out some scenarios where pesticide product registrations are no longer approved by relevant authorities, providing references for enterprise registration planning and helping enterprises avoid registration risks.

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Bacteriophages: Promising Stars in the Field of Microbial Pesticides
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Bacteriophages: Promising Stars in the Field of Microbial Pesticides

In the family of microbial pesticides, viral preparations play an important role and are mainly divided into two categories: bacteriophages for controlling plant bacterial diseases and insect viruses for controlling pests. Among them, bacteriophages, as viruses that specifically infect bacteria, are emerging as a new hope for solving the problems in controlling plant bacterial diseases due to their unique advantage of precise targeting.

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Nutrition × Plant Protection: A Synergetic Revolution in Agricultural Inputs Amid Extreme Climate
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Nutrition × Plant Protection: A Synergetic Revolution in Agricultural Inputs Amid Extreme Climate

In recent years, global agriculture has entered a phase of high uncertainty. Extreme weather events such as heatwaves, floods, prolonged droughts, and severe storms have evolved from occasional disasters in the past into regular factors reshaping the global agricultural production pattern. These climate shocks not only directly threaten the stability of crop yields but also force farmers, regulatory authorities, and input suppliers to completely restructure the combination logic of fertilizer and plant protection schemes. Against this backdrop, achieving in-depth integration of crop nutrition and plant protection ingredients with biostimulants as a bridge to create integrated solutions has become a core trend for the industry to break through predicaments. This transformation is driven not only by climate pressure but also by the dual impetus of regulatory guidance and market demand.

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