The Department of agriculture predicts 2017 crop pests will become the trend of retransmission
According to the China agricultural net, national crop pests forecasting network monitoring survey and expert consultation and analysis, 2017 crop pests in China will repeat in 2017 is expected to trend, plant diseases and insect pests occurrence area increased by 9.7%, is expected to lead to increased demand for pesticides, fungicides. The supply side of the environmental policy tighter, some pesticides gradually withdraw from the small capacity. Shrink capacity superposition increased demand for pesticide products are expected volume and price of pesticides, the performance of listed companies is expected to gradually improve.
The European Commission initiative ban glyphosate will start from the end of the month, the short term is difficult to be replaced with glyphosate, glufosinate long-term demand will increase. With paraquat delisting, currently the main alternatives are glufosinate glyphosate, glufosinate but the difficulty of production technology, process is more complex, only a few domestic companies to scale production, total production capacity is far lower than that of glyphosate, glufosinate and high production cost, the price is 6~7 times of glufosinate glyphosate prices, become an obstacle to the promotion of glufosinate. But in the long term, because the effect of glufosinate low toxicity, high efficiency and environmental protection, the future demand is expected to gradually increase.
chemical industry Business inventories remain low, the 1 quarter is expected to usher in the stock market
By the end of November 2016, chemical industry The industry of chemical fiber manufacturing industry to reduce the inventory turnover days to 19.3 days, the stock fell to 36 billion yuan scale, inventory turnover and inventory scale were decreased to the lowest level since 2012. Low inventory level is expected to exacerbate market supply tension, promote the rising prices of chemical fiber products.
Last week, natural rubber prices rose 2340 yuan / ton (+14.3%) to 18700 yuan / ton, since 4Q16 has risen 68%. rose on Sunday, we think the main reason is the price of rubber:
1) Southern Thailand floods natural rubber imports is expected to increase tension;
2) the demand side is good, heavy truck sales rose in December to continue to increase, the operating rate of downstream tire manufacturers remain high.