Global crop protection market

The global crop protection market for the year 2000 was about US 32 bilhon. Herbicides accounted for about 45 percent, insecticides 22 percent, and fungicides 20 percent of worldwide sales. The top selling agrochemicals were glyphosate and paraquat as herbicides, chlorpyriphos and imidacloprid as insecticides, azoxystrobin and mancozeb as fungicides. The most important uses were on cereals (except rice) with... 

Generic pesticides (those that have exceeded their patent life) represent over half of the global crop protection market (US 18 000 million of end-user sales in 1998). The patent expiry of important molecules such as the pyrethroids, triazole fungicides and glyphosate has resulted in substantially reduced prices, and there have been tensions between the major multinational and generic (often national) pesticide companies. Nevertheless, some 70% of the profits from multinational companies come from compounds that have exceeded their normal, 20-year patent life (i.e. approximately 13 years of profitable life Finney, 1988). In response, the major multinational companies have attempted to maintain their market share... 

Phillips McDougall, The Global Crop Protection Markets - Industry Prospects,... 

Chemical substances make a vital contribution to almost aU aspects of the hves of human beings. Chemicals bring about improvements in the health of the population and our quahty of life through new developments in, for example, treatment of disease, food safety, or crop protection. They also make a vital contribution to the economic and social well-being of citizens in terms of trade and employment. The global production of chemicals has increased from about 1 rnilhon tons in 1930 to more than 400 million tons today, and more than 100,000 different chemical substances are now on the market. 

So far, it has been established that there is a very large market for crop protection agents globally and that these markets are dominated with crops such as wheat, barley, maize, soybeans, rice, cotton, grapes, top fruit and total weed control in countries and regions such as the USA,... 

Second, poverty alleviation is also linked with world trade. Economic and political considerations are not always conducive to fair trade. Such distortions of global carbon flows, as commodities, need redress. Moreover, it would behoove developed nations to reduce their appetites for exotic but wasteful products of agriculture and horticulture. The issue is complex but the question must be asked Why do Ecuador and Colombia, to name but two nations, grow flowers for export to Eiuope and North America when a substantial proportion of their populations rely on Food Aid Flowers, attractive as they are, provide no calories they are decorative carbon which requires soil, water, simshine, labour and crop protection chemicals and fertilizers to produce. Another case in point is tobacco which does much more harm than good, not to mention poppy and other narcotic-producing crops. If there were no markets for such commodities no one would grow them and valuable resources would not be wasted. Poverty is also linked with food production and the likelihood of 12 x 10 people to... 

Cyclodienes are an important group of chlorinated pesticides. The group hep-tachlor includes insecticides such as chlordane, aldrin, dieldrin, endosulfan, and heptachlor and its epoxide. These are used for the control of a variety of plant pests in agriculture and household environments. The entry of cyclodienes to the global market has created easy management for the control of crop pests. They appeared after World War II as tools to protect food crops and control diseases from pests. In fact, humans were protected from malaria, typhus, and loss of food crops by pesticides. 

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