Insecticide imidacloprid price tightening

New Rural News Recently, the imidacloprid drug is difficult to obtain in the domestic market. At present, 96% imidacloprid drug companies offer has been increased from the 118,000 yuan (t price, the same below) in the first quarter of this year to the current 128,000 yuan to 130,000 yuan, because the source of the goods, the company has no goods.

According to the analysis, the reasons for the tight price increase of imidacloprid are as follows. First, many imidacloprid drug manufacturers have too low initial product selling prices, while raw materials, freight, labor, and waste disposal have increased their production costs. With the output hanging upside down, the profits were meagre or unprofitable and many companies stopped production. Second, many imidacloprid drug manufacturers do not have complete three-waste treatment equipment. After the government has increased energy-saving and emission-reduction efforts, many SMEs that have failed environmental protection are forced to shut down their production facilities, causing the total production capacity of the original drug to decline rapidly. Third, the import of imidacloprid intermediates Germany imidazolium prices increase 3000-5000 yuan per ton, the Japanese production of *** is also a substantial price increase, so that imidacloprid production costs soared, pushing up the price of imidacloprid raw drugs.

Imidacloprid is a nicotine type high-activity insecticide, and it has good control effect on aphids, leafhoppers, planthoppers, and thrips. The demand for imidacloprid preparations in the domestic market this year is around 5,000 to 6,000 tons, and the original drug exports are around 8,000 tons. Calculated according to the current domestic production, the gap between domestic sales and export sales will be large.