Seed Treatment Survey in China

January 2010 | 94 pages | ID: SDF8D2ABCEFEN
Guangzhou CCM Information Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (CCM)

Abstracts

Seed treatment industry has made remarkable progress in recent years, and shows attractive market potential in the future. China, consuming 41,277.23 tonnes agrochemicals in seed treatment with value of USD149.76 million in 2009, has become one of the largest consumption countries for seed treatment agents, though seed treatment rates for most crops are still low currently compared to foreign developed countries. With the increasing attention to seed treatment from Chinese government, seed treatment rate will certainly keep increasing in future years; meanwhile Chinese seed treatment industry will generate many new commercial opportunities.

This report aims to provide right understanding about Chinese seed treatment and to find out investment risk and business opportunities in this field. Following aspects of seed treatment are emphatically covered in this report.

- Governmental polices related to seed treatment. Such as raising direct grain subsidies, agricultural machinery subsidies, and improved varieties subsidies, enhancing environmental protection requirements, heightening industrial threshold, setting targets of raising seed treatment rate, and so on.

- Seed treatment market structure. Chemical treatment, including seed coating, seed soaking, seed dressing and seed sealing, captures over 90% market share in Chinese seed treatment industry, while market scale and commercialization level of physical treatment and biological treatment is rather low.

- Seed treatment market in major crops. Corn and wheat are the most important crops in seed treatment market, accounting for 85.67% of total seed treatment market in terms of value. And seed treatment in major production areas shows remarkable regional difference.

- Market of seed treatment agents. Seed coating is the most popular chemical treatment technology in China, constituting 83.55% China’s total seed treatment market value in 2009, while pesticides and fertilizers treating seeds capture a small market share.

- Risk assessment. Policy risk, industry competition risk, supply-demand fluctuation risk and technology risk are assessed, and proposals to avoid risk are provided in this report.

- Commercial opportunities. With the increasing market demand for seed treatment, commercial opportunities, including industry integration, supply increase of commercial coated seeds, demand growth of low-toxic and highly effective seed coating agents, and demand increase of machineries for seed coating and sowing, etc., are recommended.

This report is helpful to:

Companies engaged in production, R&D and sales of seed coating agents, seed dressing agents, seed soaking agents, etc.

Companies engaged in seed production, R&D and sales.

Analysts and consultants trying to gain insight into Chinese seed treatment market.

Governments with attention paid to Chinese seed treatment market.

Chambers of commerce and associations regarding seed treatment.

Contents

Executive summary
Methodology

I BACKGROUND

I-1 Seed situation
  I-1.1 Seed market scale
  I-1.2 Seed market structure
  I-1.3 Seed companies
  I-1.4 Main opportunities and challenges of China's seed industry
I-2 Significance of seed treatment for agricultural production
  I-2.1 Economic benefits
  I-2.2 Ecological benefit

II SEED TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES

II-1 Physical treatment
  II-1.1 Hot water treatment
  II-1.2 Electric field treatment
  II-1.3 Magnetic field treatment
  II-1.4 Plasma seed treatment technology
  II-1.5 Others
II-2 Chemical treatment
  II-2.1 Seed soaking
  II-2.2 Seed dressing
  II-2.3 Seed coating
  II-2.4 Solvent sealing
II-3 Biological treatment

III SEED TREATMENT MARKET IN MAJOR CROPS

III-1 General situation of seed treatment market
III-2 Seed treatment market in major crops
  III-2.1 Wheat
  III-2.2 Corn
  III-2.3 Rice
  III-2.4 Cotton
  III-2.5 Soybean
  III-2.6 Peanut
  III-2.7 Rapeseed
  III-2.8 Vegetable
  III-2.9 Sugar beet
  III-2.10 Flower
  III-2.11 Chinese medicinal materials
  III-2.12 Watermelon
  III-2.13 Tobacco
  III-2.14 Others

IV MARKET OF SEED TREATMENT AGENTS

IV-1 Seed coating agents
  IV-1.1 Development history
  IV-1.2 Supply situation
  IV-1.3 Trend
IV-2 Pesticides
IV-3 Fertilizers
  IV-3.1 Supply situation
  IV-3.2 Market volume and value

V KEY INFLUENCING FACTORS OF SEED TREATMENT

V-1 Environmental protection
V-2 Economy
  V-2.1 Rural peasants’ affordability
  V-2.2 High return of investment
V-3 Government’s attitudes and actions
V-4 MNC’s investment and activities
V-5 Others

VI RISK ASSESSMENT AND OPPORTUNITIES OF CHINESE SEED TREATMENT INDUSTRY

VI-1 Warnings and proposals for avoiding investment risks
  VI-1.1 Policy risk
  VI-1.2 Industry competition risk
  VI-1.3 Supply-demand fluctuation risk
  VI-1.4 Technology risk
  VI-1.5 Others
VI-2 Opportunities
  VI-2.1 Industry integration
  VI-2.2 Supply increase of commercial coated seeds
  VI-2.3 Demand growth of low-toxic seed coating agents
  VI-2.4 Development of new seed coating formulation types
  VI-2.5 Development of machineries for seed coating and sowing

COMPANIES MENTIONED

Hebei Beinong (Haili) Zhuozhou Seed Coating Agents Co., Ltd., Tianjin Kerun Beifang Seed Covering Agent Co., Ltd.,Chemtura Corporation,Henan Zhongzhou Seed Technological Development Co., Ltd., Hefei Fengle Seed Co., Ltd.,Chongqing Seed coating agents Company, etc.