Zeneca exports pesticides

Zeneca exports pesticides

JAKARTA (JP): PT Zeneca Agri Products Indonesia, a subsidiary
of British pesticide producer Zeneca, announced yesterday that it
has exported 10 containers of pesticides worth US$2.2 million to
China and Malaysia over the last two months.

The company's vice president for manufacturing, Etty Indrawati
Lukman, said that it exported its Matador pesticide to China
under a brand name of Kungfu.

She said that demand for pesticide and herbicide in China had
increased by an average of 20 percent per year for the last five
years.

"We are trying to enter the Chinese market which is one of the
biggest agriculture markets in the world. Exporting pesticides
will earn foreign exchange and help us to survive the economic
crisis," she said.

The company manufactures about 20 products, including
herbicides like Agroxone, Maestro, Gramoxone, Para-col, Reflex,
Touchdown and pesticides like Agrathion, Ambush, Atabron, Bancol,
Cymbush, and Matador.

The company's most popular products are Gramoxone and Para-
col, which are widely used in Central Kalimantan where the
government is opening 1 million hectares of rice fields

Etty said that the company also exported rodentia, which is
used to exterminate rats, to Malaysia and Thailand. (gis)