Tranalysis: Pesticide Exported to Southeast Asia Accounts for 30% of Total Export Value in China in H1 2016

Guangzhou, China, December 15, 2016 (Newswire.com) - According to China Customs, in H1 2016, China exported 730,000 tons of pesticides in total, with the total export value of USD 1.958 billion. Among the total export value in H1 2016, the export value of pesticides exported to Southeast Asia accounted for 30% of the total export value with the figure of USD 584 million.

In H1 2016, the export volume of pesticides to Southeastern Asia was 191,000 tons, up 11% YoY compared to the 172,000 tons last year. However, the export value of pesticides to Southeastern Asia was down 6% YoY compared to the USD 621 million last year, according to Tranalysis calculation.

Calculated by the export value, the top five export destinations were Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore. The export value of the above five destinations accounted for 92.7% of the total export value in Southeastern Asia market, calculated by Tranalysis.

In H1 2016, the export value to Burma, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, and Laos all increased compared to last year while that to Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam and Philippines decreased in different extent.

Countries in Southeastern Asia take agriculture as the foundation in developing the national economy, with attributing over 50% for the GDP. Rice is the major plantation in Southeast Asia and vegetables and fruits are also planted there. Thus, pesticides used for rice are the major pesticide in China. As for Burma, Laos, and Cambodia, their economics are in semi-closed. Due to politics and economic factors, they are not quite interactive with the international market.

In all, the Southeastern Asia market was in a low-end market and it is of poor resilience to face the weather and other external factors. For instance, the drought and then flood in Burma this year had greatly affected its pesticide market. The drought lasted for the H1 2016 in Malaysia, which caused the stagnation of fertilizer selling in the market, according to the news in CCM Online Platform.

Distribution channels in Southeast Asia

According to research in CCM Online Platform, we could find out the distribution channels in Southeast Asia market to better understand how the pesticides get sales in the market.

Due to the limitation of logistics level in Southeast Asia, most of the dealers are regional distributors in Southeast Asia expanding its market through price and account period. Without technology support, there are no mature national distributors in Southeast Asia. 

In Thailand pesticide distribution market, the first distributors are the large-scale importers; the second ones are small-scale importers and the third ones are the dealers.

Large-scaled importers often import products in big packages. After that, they sell the big package products to small-scale importers or repackage them into smaller bags with their own brands and sell them to the dealers.

As for small-scale importers, they usually repackage the products into smaller bags with their own brands and sell them to the dealers, but they don’t sell the big package products like what large-scale importers do.

There are big and small dealers which don’t own a brand themselves and just distribute the products with other brands to the farmers. Some big dealers have an even larger scale than some importers. They often distribute products in more than ten or even several dozens of brands. Thus, the market classification is not obvious in Thailand pesticide market.

As for Malaysia pesticide market, after the rapid development in the past few years, the distribution market is quite mature.

Earlier, the pesticides enterprises often sold their products to distributors and wholesalers and they would distribute the products to dealers.

However, in the past few years, with intense competitions in pesticide market in Malaysia, price wars and gradually developing transportations in Malaysia, many pesticide companies skip selling products to distributor and wholesalers and sell them to dealers directly.

To enjoy potential prospect

The future of the Southeast Asian market looks promising. Political stability in Southeast Asian countries, Burma has begun to take the democratic line and Cambodia has strengthened the relationship with ASEAN. With the economic development, people's livelihood will be improved. CCM believed that all of these factors will further improve the development of pesticide market.

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Source: Tranalysis