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A free stevia sweetener webinar was held successfully by CCM International, a leading market research consulting company in China, at 16:30 (GMT+8, Beijing Time) on April 26, 2012. The webinar has achieved great success. 30 people registered this webinar and about 20 delegates from famous food & beverage giants, such as Tate & Lyle, Cargill, Danone, DSM, Roquette, Tampico etc. attended the event. Most of the attendees felt satisfied about the webinar and some showed great interested about the sweetener information.

Aiming to decrease the grain security risk brought up by the declining area of arable land and reinforce national grain security guarantee ability, China plans to increase the area of arable land by 1.6 million ha. during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), based on CCM International’s latest issue of Crop Protection China News.

As an important material of many chemicals, such as MDI and rubber ingredients, the R&D of aniline in China is started in 1958, by Jilin Chemical Industry Co., Ltd. And it has kept a strong growth since the 1980s.

April issue of Dairy Products China News covers a range of sector developments but stand outs are Wahaha seeking dairy farms in Australia and Fonterra looking to expand its dairy farms in China.

Mancozeb, a broad-spectrum fungicide, introduced in 1962 but still plays a significant role in the world fungicide market. It is used on a wide variety of food/feed crops, including fruit trees, vegetable crops, field crops, etc. Mancozeb can control early blight, late blight, anthracnose, rust, downy mildew, etc. The demand of mancozeb is increasing year by year, and its global capacity increased largely during 2003 to 2009. With its market value reaching USD400 million in 2009, mancozeb’s global capacity is estimated to exceed 220,000t/a in 2010. What is the overall information of mancozeb registration, supply, demand, international trade flows and market price in global market? What are the 2012 – 2016 future trends of above aspects respectively?

China, a world's leading tomato paste producer, apart from the U.S. and Italy, witnessed continuous gloom of tomato processing industry in 2011, mainly caused by domestic overcapacity and slack sales in overseas market. The sluggish tomato processing industry would probably reduce the operating rate of tomato processing enterprises and lower farmers' enthusiasm for planting processing tomato in 2012, according to CCM International’s April Issue of Seed China News.

CCM International’s Second Edition Report of The Global Market of Yellow Phosphorus presents you the global flow of yellow phosphorus and its future trend.

Driven by the booming market, resource advantage and Chinese government's encourage, China's PVDF industry will maintain rapid growth during the 12th Five year Plan Period (2011-2015).

China announces to cut its GDP growth target to 7.5% in 2012, according to Premier Wen Jiabao's announcement in his government work report delivered to the National People's Congress on March 5th , 2012. This is the first time for the Chinese government to lower its economic growth target after its years-long efforts to maintain an 8% economic growth rate for seven consecutive years. The major reason of cutting GDP growth target is that the Chinese government plans to focus on accelerating the transformation of the pattern of economic development and making economic development more sustainable and efficient so as to achieve higher-level and higher-quality development over a longer period of time.

Based on the 2011 annual report of Meihua Holdings Group Co., Ltd. (Meihua Group) and the Announcement of Annual Results for the Year Ended 31 Dec. 2011 of Fufeng Group Limited (Fufeng Group), top 2 monosodium glutamate (MSG) producers in China, as well as CCM International's latest report, Production and Market of Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) in China, published in Feb. 2012, it's found that China's MSG industry suffered a lower profit level in 2011 than 2010, majorly due to the significant increase in raw material cost, according to CCM International’s April issue of Corn Products China News.