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    The shortage of medicines and the huge market for small crops

    • Last Update: 2022-03-05
    • Source: Internet
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    The "2016 Action Plan for Special Remediation of Pesticides" proposes to "speed up the registration of specialty small crops" in order to solve the problem of "no registered pesticides available and confusion of farmers' use of pesticides" in the prevention and control of some specialty small crops
    .
    Since then, various companies and research institutions have turned their attention to small crops, scrambling to carry out drug efficacy registration tests on small crops
    .
    Featured small crops refer to small crops with small planting areas such as specialty vegetables, fruits, grains, edible fungi, and Chinese medicinal materials, but with obvious regional characteristics and imperfect control agents
    .
    As consumption habits continue to change, the planting area of ​​small crops continues to increase
    .
    According to statistics, the output of edible fungi in China in 2016 has exceeded 28 million tons, and the output value has exceeded 200 billion yuan; in 2015, the planting area of ​​Chinese medicinal materials in China has reached 50.
    455 million mu
    .
    It is no exaggeration that some small crop varieties have become the "money cow" and "treasure pot" of China's agricultural characteristic cash crop industry, such as bayberry in Zhejiang (with an output value of 4.
    95 billion yuan); buckwheat and millet in Ningxia; blueberries in Liaoning; and Xinjiang's Hami melons, fragrant pears, etc.
    , however, on these crops, there are very few registered drugs, and many small crop pesticide registration records are zero.
    In small crop planting areas, there is often an embarrassing situation of "no drugs available"
    .
    There is a huge market for small crops with a shortage of medicines.
    1.
    There are many types of small crops.
    According to incomplete statistics, there are about 150 common small crops in China.
    These crops are complex and diverse.
    According to statistics from the Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China’s pests and diseases There are more than 600 species (Table 1), of which more than 200 pests and diseases need to be controlled
    .
    Such as bayberry: white rot, root rot, cancer, red disease, dry blight, brown spot, rust, anthracnose, fruit flies, scale insects, long beetles, etc.
    ; winter jujube: green spot, rust, shrink disease, Lygus bugs Xiang, gall midge jujube, date steps, armyworm, leaves ticks, fresh bud weevil, mulberry mealy, spider mite
    .
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