Immediately before Spring tilling, Sinochem International conscientiously served "Agriculture, Rural area and Farmer" by providing pesticides in sufficient quantity, excellent quality and reasonable price, and contributed pro-actively to safeguarding normal operation of nationwide Spring tilling production and stabilizing pesticide market prices.
Sinochem International Chemical Industry Division followed the guideline of early arrangement, early action, and early implementation, and prepared sufficient amount of branded pesticide products including Roundup, Machete, Lasso, and Harness, in order to ensure farmers to be able to purchase pesticides with reasonable prices promptly.
Salespersons of Sinochem International also visited all major sales areas nationwide, to instruct farmers to use pesticides in a scientific manner. Since the start of this year, they held over 300 times of farmer training sessions to teach scientific application of pesticides, and over a hundred training seminars for dealers and retailers at all levels, distributed more than 300,000 copies of various technical manuals. They also set up hot lines to offer immediate answers to farmers questions about pesticide usage.
In order to enable farmers to use safe pesticides, Sinochem International also intensified efforts to crack down on counterfeit products, set up counter-forgery code with hi-tech measures on products sold by Sinochem International such as Roundup, so that farmers and dealers could verify the authenticity of pesticide simply with one call. They also actively cooperated with Administration of Industry and Commerce at all levels to closely monitor pesticide market; on March 14, a counterfeit Roundup sales point was removed in Bingzhou, Hunan, in which 2 tons of fake pesticides valued at 100,000 Yuan was seized.