China’s Glyphosate Technical Price Climbs 2.8% in October
02 November 2026, Beijing, CN: China’s domestic price for glyphosate technical material rose 2.8 percent in the second ten days of October 2026, according to wholesale pricing data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The price for 95 percent glyphosate technical material reached 29,035.7 yuan per tonne (approximately 4,356 US dollars at current exchange rates), an increase of 785.7 yuan (around 118 US dollars) from the prior ten-day reporting period.
The figures come from the NBS report “Market Prices of Important Means of Production in Circulation,” covering October 11 to 20, 2026, and published by the bureau’s China Economic Monitoring and Analysis Center on October 24, 2026. The report measures wholesale and selling prices across major industrial and agricultural production inputs, which the bureau notes can differ from factory-gate producer prices because they include circulation costs, trading profit and applicable taxes. The 95 percent technical material benchmark tracked by NBS refers to glyphosate active ingredient content of at least 95 percent before formulation into end-use herbicide products.
Herbicide Demand and Supply Context
Glyphosate remains the highest-volume herbicide active ingredient produced in China, and the country supplies a large share of global technical-grade glyphosate used in formulated products sold across North America, South America and Asia. Technical material pricing in China is closely watched by international buyers because it feeds directly into the cost base for finished herbicide formulations sold by multinational and regional crop protection companies outside China, as well as by Chinese formulators selling into export markets. A rise in technical material price, if sustained, typically works through the supply chain over subsequent months before showing up in the price of finished retail herbicide products.
The October reading extends a pattern seen through the second half of 2026, during which NBS’s ten-day price snapshots for glyphosate technical material have generally trended upward from earlier-year lows. The bureau’s reporting series does not break out the specific drivers behind each ten-day movement, and the October 24 release gives no explanation for the latest increase beyond the reported price level and its change from the previous period.
The same NBS release showed a divergent trend for other agricultural production inputs tracked in the same report. Urea (small and medium granule) fell 1.0 percent to 1,749.9 yuan per tonne, phosphate fertilizer (55 percent monoammonium phosphate) fell 5.2 percent to 3,728.8 yuan per tonne, potassium fertilizer (62 percent white muriate of potash, port price) fell 5.3 percent to 2,897.9 yuan per tonne, and compound fertilizer (45 percent NPK) fell 1.3 percent to 3,552.4 yuan per tonne. Glyphosate was the only pesticide-category item included in the bureau’s published circulation price list for this reporting period.
China’s pesticide technical material sector has been under periodic scrutiny from domestic regulators over below-cost selling practices as producers compete for both domestic and export volume. Industry-wide registration and export rules for pesticide active ingredients have also been under revision by national authorities through 2026, a process that market participants have said is contributing to a more selective competitive environment among domestic glyphosate producers. The NBS data does not itself attribute the October price movement to any of these regulatory developments.
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