Research Report on China’s Corn Seed Industry 2012

Seed is the most basic and the most important means of production in agricultural production. Along with the growth of global population, continuous environmental degradation, and constantly dwindling arable land. Agricultural production has an increasing demand for seed with high unit yield and good resistance. The competition advantage in the seed market will determine the priority in future agricultural competition. Corn is the food crop with the largest amount of planted area in China. The planted area of corn was about 33.43 million hectares, which needed about 1.15 billion kg of seed, with the market size of about 18 billion Yuan in 2011. And the corn planted area is expected to reach 34.67 million hectares in 2012. Huge demand for seed drives the development of the corn seed industry, and the competition in the corn seed market becomes increasingly fierce. This report provides a comprehensive and detailed description of the present status of China’s corn seed market, and gives a professional forecasting analysis on the post-development direction of China’s corn seed market. The main content of report on China’s corn seed industry includes: 1. Analysis of China’s corn seed industry development policies. 2. Analysis of China’s corn planting: distribution of planting areas, planting profits, corn mechanization production, as well as the analysis of the main uses of China’s corn. 3. Analysis of China’s corn key planting areas: mainly including the corn planting of the key provinces, major planting varieties and the demand for seed, the major corn seed enterprises and the major corn planting counties in key provinces. 4. Analysis of China’s major corn seed production bases: an overview of corn seed production base in Northwest, Northeast, North China, in-depth analysis of the corn seed production bases in Gansu province, the corn seed production area, yield, the main varieties of Gansu etc. 5. The promotion of the major corn varieties in main provinces. 6. The production and sales of major corn varieties of China’s key corn seed production enterprises. This report is mainly based on large amounts of data published and provided by National Bureau of Statistics, the State General Administration of Customs, China's Ministry of Agriculture, National Agricultural Technology Promotion Center, China Seed Association, domestic and foreign research units of the corn seed industry, corn seed production companies and distributors, and the industrial accumulation of BOABC in nearly two decades. This report has accurate, objective, comprehensive and systematic research and analysis on the entire corn seed market and policies, focusing on the analysis of corn seed demand of major provinces and cities in China's major corn planting regions and the distribution of enterprises that mainly participate in market competition. BOABC considers that the present report is one of the important bases for concerning about related businesses, research institutions, and domestic and foreign investment companies of China’s corn seed industry to understand China's corn seed industry developments, trends and find investment opportunities.