Market Trends of asia pacific fungicide Industry
Increased disease effects on major crops and the need for higher productivity raise the per-hectare fungicide consumption
- In the Asia-Pacific, the presence of pathogens leads to significant losses in agricultural production, necessitating the increased utilization of fungicides. Japan's fungicide consumption per hectare in 2022 stood at 7.9 kg, surpassing other Asia-Pacific countries. This figure illustrates a rise of roughly 13% in usage compared to the recorded data from 2017. This increase may be attributed to the effectiveness of fungicide application in controlling the spread of diseases, particularly airborne diseases like rice blast or soybean rust, which led to increased consumption of fungicide per hectare.
- Myanmar has emerged as the next country to significantly escalate its consumption of fungicides per hectare, following in the footsteps of Japan. Numerous factors contribute to this trend. The adoption of intensive agricultural practices aimed at enhancing productivity, coupled with higher application rates and frequent use of fungicides to mitigate disease outbreaks, stand out as the primary drivers behind the surge in fungicide consumption per hectare. These reasons have contributed to the notable increase in fungicide utilization within Myanmar. For instance, the cultivation of rice, which serves as a major crop in Myanmar. Farmers rely heavily on fungicides to effectively manage blight and false smut.
- Overall, the region is witnessing a consistent rise in fungicide consumption, except in China and Thailand. Several factors contribute to this trend, including climate change, intensified agricultural practices aimed at boosting production, frequent disease outbreaks, and inadequate regulations for reducing fungicidal residues. China and Thailand have taken proactive measures to reduce pesticide consumption, resulting in lower usage in these countries.
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Climatic changes altering fungal survivability, infectivity, and host susceptibility are leading to new disease outbreaks
- Tebuconazole, a systematic fungicide, was valued at a price of USD 8.7 thousand per metric ton in 2022. Tebuconazole is known to treat rust fungus, sheath blight, leaf spot, and anthracnose.
- Mancozeb is a broad-spectrum contact fungicide used to control many fungal diseases, such as anthracnose, pythium blight, leaf spot, downy mildew, Botrytis, rust, and scab in oilseeds rapeseeds, lettuce, wheat, apples, tomatoes, table grapes, wine grapes, bulb onions, carrots, parsnips, shallots, and durum wheat. Mancozeb was priced at USD 7.7 thousand per metric ton in 2022.
- Azoxystrobin is a broad-spectrum fungicide active against fungal pathogens belonging to the Oomycetes, Ascomycetes, Deuteromycetes, and Basidiomycetes. Owing to the increase in infestation of fungi like Fusarium and Trichoderma, the price of azoxystrobin increased from USD 4.0 thousand per metric ton in 2017 to USD 4.6 thousand per metric ton by 2022. Similarly, metalaxyl is a systemic fungicide used to control plant diseases caused by Oomycete fungi, which was priced at USD 4.4 thousand per metric ton in 2022.
- Propineb is a dithiocarbamate, a contact fungicide that was priced at USD 3.5 thousand per metric ton in 2022. Propineb is applicable to tomatoes, Chinese cabbages, cucumbers, mangoes, flowers, and other crops. It is used in preventing and treating early late blight of mango, anthracnose of Chinese cabbage, potato downy mildew, cucumber downy mildew, and tomato late blight.
- Ziram is a basic contact and foliar fungicide that was priced at USD 3.2 thousand per metric ton in 2022. It mainly controls early and late blight of potatoes/tomatoes, downy mildew and black rot of vines and cucurbits, scab of apples, Sigatoka of bananas, and citrus melanosis.
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