GENERICS
Two years –
a long time in generics
India and China continue
their ascent in generics, while
pesticide review programmes
are reshaping the industry as a
whole, says Jon Evans
Agrow’s Complete Guide to Generic Pesticides
consists of three volumes: Volume 1 contains
profiles of 100 of the most important generic
pesticide companies in the world today; Volume
2 contains profiles of 100 of the most important
generic pesticide ais; and Volume 3 provides a
detailed analysis of the generic pesticide market
and industry. In these volumes, a generic pesticide
company is defined as a company, or a division of
a company, that undertakes as part of its business
the manufacture of pesticide ais for which the
patents have expired. In the 2005 edition, this
definition was extended to cover companies such
as Monsanto and Griffin, because they generate
the majority of their pesticide sales from post-
patent ais, albeit ones that they or their parent
company originally developed. However, as
almost all the major R&D-based crop protection
companies now generate a great deal of their
sales from post-patent ais, in the 2007 edition
only pesticide companies producing post-patent
ais that they did not originally develop were
classed as generic manufacturers.
This distinction between off-patent and generic
explains why, even though off-patent products
account for the majority of global pesticide sales
(60–70%), generic pesticide companies only
generate 20–30% of these sales (valuing the
global generic pesticide market at US$6,400–
I
t’s been a heady couple of years for the previous edition appeared back in 2005. This US$9,600 million). For in many countries,
generic pesticide sector. We’ve seen the is not only because the new edition provides especially developed ones, the R&D-based
much anticipated rise of developing world a snapshot of the current state of the fast- agrochemical companies dominate the market for
companies, major active ingredients (ais) moving global generic pesticide industry off-patent pesticides.
losing their patent protection in an increasing and market, but also because it provides a
number of markets and the introduction of new fascinating insight into exactly how the sector Asia on the up
pesticide review programmes in a whole host of has changed and developed over the past two Within the global generic pesticide industry,
countries and regions. years. For a comparison of the 2005 and 2007 perhaps the main development over the past
editions reveals the main trends that have few years has been the rise of developing world
All these developments make it an opportune affected the sector over the past two years companies, especially those from India and China.
time to publish the latest edition of Agrow’s and also allows those trends to be extended In the 2005 edition, the nine largest generic
Complete Guide to Generic Pesticides, as the into the future. pesticide companies by sales were all from the
 January 2008  •  www.agrow.com
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