Agricultural plastic products have a promising market

Agricultural experts believe that agricultural products with properties such as warming and moisture conservation, including plastic films for greenhouse films, plastic film, green film, sunshades, water-saving irrigation pipes, and pipe fittings, will be widely used in China in the future. Agricultural plastics market has broad prospects.

1. Shelter membranes, plastic membranes, green feeding membranes, and shade nets are important agricultural cover materials for application and development at present and in the future. By 1997, China's ground cover area had exceeded 180 million mu (film) and 20 million mu (shelf film); while China's can cover the plastic film area and film area of ​​550 million mu and 50 million mu respectively. According to the forecast of the Ministry of Agriculture, by 2005, the cultivation area of ​​horticultural facilities in China will reach about 23 million mu, and the total area of ​​mulching film in China will reach 170 million mu. There are also forage films including ammoniated membranes, silage membranes, and stretch film. , plastic nursery containers, shade nets, insect nets, fishing nets, agricultural products storage and preservation materials, pesticides equipment, foam plastic plates, etc., about 3 million tons of plastic products.

Second, water-saving irrigation with supporting pipe and fittings will be widely used. China is a country with severe water shortages. Among the total water consumption in the country, irrigation water accounts for 70%, so water saving for irrigation plays a decisive role in water conservation. Water-saving irrigation is the adoption of a number of measures such as water conservancy, agriculture, and management to achieve the highest crop yields with the least water consumption. The measures to reduce water loss during the field water transport from water sources include channel seepage control and low-pressure pipeline water delivery. Spray irrigation and micro-irrigation can not only reduce water loss, but also reduce field irrigation losses. These measures require a large number of plastic water-saving irrigation equipment, so the plastic pipes for water delivery, spraying, micro-irrigation, supporting pipes and fittings for drip irrigation under the membrane, and plastic well pipes with lighter and stronger Promotion and application. Various geotechnical materials for water conservancy construction, such as geomembranes, geotextiles and composites, geomembrane and non-woven composites, geotechnical unidirectional and biaxially-stretched materials, etc., will also be widely used. According to the initial planning of the water conservancy department, by 2005, the area of ​​water-saving irrigation projects will be increased by 150 million mu of water-saving irrigation area on the basis of the current 250 million mu. Among them, 79 million mu of sprinkling irrigation, 10 million mu of drip irrigation, 14 million mu of water for pipeline transportation, and 50 million mu of canal seepage prevention are expected to require various plastic water-saving equipment, such as various types of pipe and pipe fittings, emitters, nozzles, and impermeable membranes. , such as 1.7 million tons of geotextiles.