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URALCHEM HOLDING P.L.C. (hereinafter URALCHEM Holding or the Company), a Cypriot holding company of the URALCHEM Group (hereinafter the Group), one of the largest producers of nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers in Russia, announced its audited IFRS financial results for the year ended 31 December 2011.

The production volume of URALCHEM Holding’s enterprises during the first nine months of 2011 increased by 6% compared to the same period in 2010, amounting to a total of 3.815 million tonnes. The production of ammonium nitrate increased by 7%. Due to market conditions, the production of DAP and NPS 14:34:8 has been reduced to zero in favor of increasing the production of more marketable MAP and NPK fertilisers. Their output increased by 63% and 18% respectively. The production of other types of fertilisers grew by 107% due to the increase of sales of potassium nitrate and the start of its export sales. The production of chemicals for industrial use grew by 28% due to the increase in domestic sales of sulphuric and nitric acid, aluminum fluoride and phosphogypsum.

Automation Devices, Inc. (ADI), a vibratory feeder manufacturer, offers customers in the medical, pharmaceutical and food industries viable options for safe, reliable parts feeding. ADI recognizes the need for customers to meet quality control regulations while maintaining costs and production time.

It is expected that both the output and domestic demand of azoxystrobin will grow stably in the next five years, according to CCM’s report Production and Market of Azoxystrobin in China.

Dichlorvos price is expected to witness decrease in next five years in China, according to CCM’s newly-released report Production and market of Dichlorvos in China.

After more than one year’s efforts on cracking down fake product of Kangkuan, DuPont China has achieved some success. However, the road of DuPont's rights safeguard in China is still tough.

China Agriculture Investment Express, a bi-monthly newsletter published by CCM, offers you the first hand information of Chinese agricultural industry from aspects of policy and legislation, industrial dynamics, company dynamics, price update, and future trend.

Hosted by Beijing Seed Fair, the leading seed trade fair in China has a history of 18 years, and the workshop is co-hosted by CCM, a professional consulting company with 3-year crop protection summit organization experience.

WholesalePages.co.uk reports that the domain now offers wholesale facilities to the grass seed suppliers and dealers operating within the UK. These efforts are directed at marketing the suppliers, their products and providing better seeds to the farmers. This opportunity has been brought forth after detecting the trend of going global amongst the seed suppliers.

Epoxiconazole, introduced to the market by BASF in 1993, can be found in many products and product mixtures targeting a large number of pathogens in various crops like cereals (mainly wheat, barley, rye and triticale), soybeans, banana, rice, coffee, turnips, and red as well as sugar beets, and it is a fungicide active ingredient from the class of azoles developed to protect crops. In particular, the substance inhibits the metabolism of fungi cells infesting useful plants, and thereby prevents the growth of the mycelia (fungal cells).

According to a recent survey before the annual session of the National People's Congress in Feb. 2011, nearly 70 percent of Chinese consumers expressed objections to genetically modified food, including rice, oil and soymilk. After that, on the annual sessions, members of the national committee of CPPCC had a heated debate on the topic of “Is GM food a ecology helper or a potential killer” since the 12th Five-Year Plan announced to plant genetically modified crops according to related laws. The world displayed different attitudes to genetically food these years. At this very moment, China’s dynamic on GM food will surely attracts the world’s attention.

CCPS (China Crop Protection Summit) 2011, organized by Guangzhou CCM Information Science and Technology Co., Ltd, has achieved great success and wrapped up in Shanghai on Mar.19, 2011. With the principle of sharing the latest industry dynamics to improve the better development of crop protection, experts, scholars and medias around the world and top managers of famous enterprises gathered here to discuss crop protection and related hot topics.

HedgeHog e-Procurement Solutions, a full-service strategic sourcing consulting and solutions provider, announced that it is helping the State of Ohio reduce procurement costs across state government by as much as twenty-five percent. These initial results demonstrate early success in a program that is designed to help the state save $35 to $70 million each year on a $700 million annual spend.

Chinese farmers have got used to applying N-P-K (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) fertilizers and microelement fertilizers instead of straight fertilizers. This significantly raises the scale of Chinese compound fertilizer market.