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After cooperating with pharmaceutical companies, the global agrochemical giants have successively announced the successful development of new pesticides for locust control, hoping that the affected areas will rush to purchase them.

On TV, DuPont CEO Robert was interviewed by reporters.

"DuPont is one of the global agrochemical giants, and its insecticide business is the world's number one. We have been paying attention to this locust disaster and actively responded to it. Finally, we have developed a new drug to kill locusts."

"This is a special insecticide that can kill locusts quickly, with minimal pollution and little damage to the ecology, but the cost is a little higher."

"But compared with killing locusts and reducing disasters, this is a price worth paying, isn't it?"

"We will do our best to help and help the world to completely solve the locust plague. In order to show our sincerity, we are willing to sell this new type of insecticide at the cost price. We ask the affected countries in Asia and the Philippines to place orders with us as soon as possible, so as not to delay the eradication of locusts." best chance."

The four giants in the global agrochemical industry are Syngenta, Bayer, DuPont, and BASF. Among them, Syngenta has been acquired by Huaxia Petrochemical and has become the top pesticide company in the world, with a market share of more than 20%. The other three are Western agricultural companies. chemical giant.

As a top expert in the agrochemical industry, Robert is very authoritative in the industry, and his words have been warmly supported and recognized by pesticide companies such as Bayer and BASF.

Of course, none of them offered to donate pesticides for free.

These pesticide giants are now gearing up to take advantage of the great opportunity of the global locust plague to make a fortune.

They usually compete fiercely, but now the cake is big enough, and the purchasers of pesticides are all the governments of various countries. As long as each company takes the share of a few countries, the sales volume of this year will definitely increase greatly.

Although the World Food and Agriculture Organization has been calling on everyone to lend a helping hand and donate materials for free to help the disaster-stricken countries, but that is a matter for the football league and the standing committee countries. What does it have to do with their companies?

If a company has to donate in the face of a disaster, should it still make a profit? Do you want a market?

It is already a conscientious enterprise that can maintain the original price without raising the price.

Even if the price is raised a little bit, it is purely a market economic behavior.

Otherwise, can food prices rise? Why can't pesticides go up?

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Ethiopia, Headquarters of the Confederation of the Philippines.

Government officials from disaster-stricken countries such as Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Djibouti, Tanzania, and Ganguo are sitting in a large conference room. Opposite the conference table are CEOs and senior executives of agrochemical giants such as DuPont, Bayer, and BASF. Tube.

They came here for the new locust-killing pesticides of these giants, and wanted to purchase large quantities to kill the locust plague in their country as soon as possible.

However, after a round of negotiations, they were all a little disappointed, and a group of people looked very ugly.

"Mr. Robert, the price of DuPont's new locust control drug is too expensive. Although it seems to be effective, the toxicity is very small, and it does not pollute the environment too much, but we have suffered a lot of food losses this year, so we have to save a lot of money. Come down to buy food and get through the food crisis, this price may not be acceptable to us.”

Jemol, Ethiopia's Minister of Agriculture, had a gloomy face, with a glimmer of anger in his eyes.

People from several other countries also echoed.

Robert laughed and said calmly: "Because this new drug is a biological pesticide researched together with the Roche Group, we have invested a lot in research and development, and we need to increase production as soon as possible, so the cost will definitely increase. These factors have led to the price not being too high." Cheap, but we are indeed selling at cost price."

The CEO of Bayer Crop said: "If you think DuPont's price is too expensive, you can choose our Bayer's locust control pesticide. Our price is very cheap, only a quarter of DuPont's. The stock is sufficient, and it is also a newly developed special effect. Pesticides are very lethal to locusts."

Jemore said coldly: "Bayer's price is still acceptable to us, but your follow-up environmental impact report has not been released. We have some doubts about this. We need to provide detailed toxic and side effects information before we consider Bayer's new drug. .”

He knew in his heart that these pesticide giants were united and wanted to sell at a high price together.

DuPont's pesticides are indeed effective and have the least impact on the environment, but the price is too expensive, and it is simply a lion's mouth.

And Bayer's pesticides have too many side effects, no matter how effective they are, he dare not use them.

Thinking of this, he turned his attention to the CEO of BASF. The price of BASF's pesticides has not increased, but the old pesticides are definitely not as effective as the new ones in killing locusts, but the prices and side effects are within a reasonable range. Acceptable.

So he looked at BASF and said, "Your price is quite reasonable, we are going to order 30,000 tons of pesticides first..."

The CEO of BASF suddenly interrupted his words: "I'm sorry, several of our major factories around the world are under maintenance, and the production capacity is temporarily insufficient, and we can only provide 3,000 tons of pesticides at most."

Jemore almost spat out a mouthful of old blood. Who didn't know that BASF, the world's largest chemical company, would actually run out of production capacity?

What is the use of 3000 tons of pesticides? Not even one country is enough, let alone all the disaster-stricken countries in the Philippines.

Even if the 3,000 tons of pesticides are used by one country to wipe out all the locusts in that country, locusts can fly, and they will fly continuously from other countries, so if the locusts in the entire Philippines are not wiped out together , the 3,000 tons of pesticides were sprayed in vain.

He looked at the CEOs in front of him, each of them was confident and confident, as if he knew that they had no choice, and he suddenly understood.

These agrochemical giants have obviously united secretly to take advantage of the locust plague to harvest, which is in line with their usual style.

After Jemore figured this out, he quickly calmed down and said slowly, "Even if we can accept your price, but we don't have so much money at the moment. I wonder if there is any other way to carry out this transaction?"

Robert smiled slightly and said, "This is very simple. If you have no money, you can use resources as collateral for a loan. I believe that the bankers in Eagle Country will be willing to help others and extend a helping hand to help you tide over the difficulties."

The CEOs of Bayer and BASF also nodded one after another: "The bankers in Europa are very friendly and kind to the Philippine countries. The worst thing is to see you suffer and suffer, and they must be happy to borrow money."

Robert added with a look of concern: "I heard that your food loss is huge, and the purchase of pesticides must be stepped up, otherwise it will definitely cause a food crisis in the second half of the year. Don't lose too much because of small things."

Jemore gritted his teeth and said, "Because of the huge purchase volume, several countries need to discuss it together and give you an answer later."

Robert nodded: "No hurry, we have to go to the desert peninsula tomorrow, Dubai, Camel Country and Tianzhu have already placed a large order with us, we will come back soon after we sign the contract, and we will make a decision at that time Late."

The negotiation ended quickly, and Jemore looked at the back of Robert and others leaving, biting his teeth with hatred, but there was nothing he could do.

The locust plague is already unbearable for the Philippines. Pesticides in various countries are already in a hurry. If we don’t buy large quantities of pesticides to completely kill the locusts, I am afraid that people will really have no food.

He patted his black head, suddenly remembered something, and turned around to ask the people around him.

"Why didn't Syngenta come?"

"We contacted Syngenta, but they were late. It is said that Huaxia has also developed a new pesticide to kill locusts and is doing experiments in Pakistan."

"Everyone, these giants in the West are obviously uneasy and kind. If they want to cut flesh from us, we should consider other companies."

"Yes, we have such a good relationship with Huaxia, we should buy pesticides from Syngenta."

As soon as everyone was reminded, they immediately started talking about it.

After some discussion, Jemore immediately made a decision: "Let's contact Syngenta first to see what their quotation is, and then make a decision after shopping around."

Because the Philippines has been severely affected by the disaster and the amount of pesticides is huge, it is necessary to consider both the effect of locust control and environmental hazards, so we can only buy pesticides from agrochemical giants.

Only these established companies can provide tens of thousands of tons of pesticides in a short period of time, and their products are mature and tested, which is more reassuring.

Soon, Syngenta got a reply, and the news surprised everyone.

Syngenta said that it can sell tens of thousands of tons of pesticides at a low price. Since it is an old-fashioned pesticide, it cannot guarantee the effect of killing locusts.

However, they suggested that the Philippine Alliance directly contact the China Ministry of Agriculture, because a pharmaceutical giant in China has entered the field of pesticides, and has developed a pesticide to kill locusts. It has been tested in Pakistan, and the effect is very miraculous.

Jemore looked around and said in a daze, "Sanqing? This name is very familiar. My Huaxia friends often mention it, but it seems to be a pharmaceutical company in my impression. Why do they also have pesticides?"