China's seed industry has entered a stage of full market competition, and the seed industry landscape is ushering in new changes

The seed industry has already entered a stage of full market competition. From 2010 to 2014, the number of seed enterprises nationwide decreased from 8,700 to 5,064, declaring that the stage of disorderly market competition has basically ended.

Improving industry concentration urgently needs to be led by mergers and reorganizations. From 2012 to 2014, both the market concentration of the seed industry and the market concentration of major crops showed declines to varying degrees, and “two hybrids” seeds appeared in severe surplus, increasing market competition pressure.

⟦NL> The downward trend in variety concentration will continue. In the past, the deep-seated reason for the decline in variety concentration in China was variety homogenization, and with the introduction of various market protection systems, the homogenization phenomenon may decrease somewhat, but the downward trend in variety concentration will still continue, and the driving force for the decline will shift from homogenization to differentiated competition, with large enterprises and multiple varieties becoming the norm.

The primary breeding target will aim at suitability for mechanization. Because rural labor costs are rising and labor is in short supply, the history of manual intensive cultivation will become a thing of the past, and varieties can only advance by continuously adapting to production development.