Agriculture and crop protection chemicals and ingredients

The crop protection market works in two steps. Manufacturers produce technical grade active ingredients, and formulators turn them into products such as emulsifiable concentrates, suspension concentrates and water dispersible granules that distributors sell to farmers. Generic producers in India and China supply a large share of off-patent actives worldwide, while research-based companies develop new modes of action. Fertilizers follow their own commodity markets, with bulk nitrogen, phosphate and potash traded in vessel loads and specialty water-soluble fertilizers sold in bags.

Registration is the central issue. A crop protection product can only be sold where it is registered, and the registration often names the approved sources of the technical active ingredient. Buyers who want to register generic products need data such as a five-batch analysis and proof of equivalence. Some actives are banned or restricted in certain regions, and several are listed under the Rotterdam Convention, so trade partners must check status in both exporting and importing countries. Use the function pages to find actives and suppliers, and state the grade, purity, quantity, packaging and registration documents you need when you post a request.