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Mr. Flavio Hirata, MBA, agronomist, consultant from AllierBrasil. He can be reached at Flavio.hirata@uol.com.br. His Skype is: flavioyhirata.
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Glyphosate is the most used agrochemical in the world as well as in Brazil. Banned in France, it has been in process of phase out for 3 years. In Brazil, glyphosate is under reevaluation by ANVISA, agency responsible for health, which does not prevent the approval of new glyphosate based registrations, neither commercial sales.
Pesticide registration in Brazil is regulated by a range of laws, decrees, ordinance, technical standards, resolutions, normative instructions, which converge in some points and diverge in others; it involves three ministries with different responsibilities, with independent and/or joint actions - depending on the subject and the type of registration, which makes compliance with the legislation at least laborious.
On December 11th, Ministry of Agriculture of Brazil, has suspended glyphosate factory source Jiangsu Yinyan Specialty Chemicals Co. Ltd., located in Zhoutie Town, Yixing City, Jiangsu Province, from all approved registrations. It includes technical and formulated products.
There is a considerable price import variation between source, brand name and type of formulation that could reach up almost 100%. In the last 12 months (Dec 2017 till Nov 2018), 75% WG was the most imported formulation followed by 80% WP, with 27,511 and 7,765 imported metric tons, respectively, according to the IMPORT REPORT by AllierBrasil.
Soybean Asian Rust is one of the main diseases attacking soybean crops in Brazil. Its damages can reduce yields up to 90%. The cost to control these fungi is around US$ 2 billion/year, which includes several fungicide applications.
Brazilian methomyl technical grade imports in 2018 until the month of October were 1,737 m tons. Imported products were from China (including 260 m tons from Taiwan). Only one formulated product was imported from Israel, a mixture of methomyl 44% + novaluron 3.5%, in an amount of 752,000 L, according to IMPORT REPORT by AllierBrasil.
Emamectin benzoate is an insecticide recently registered in Brazil. After Syngenta obtained PROCLAIM registration, the “emergency sales permit” shall be canceled. Prices of both types of available products are very competitive and high sales margins.
While paraquat is in process of phasing out in Brazil, there shall have a window for diquat to replace it. By now only 5 players have registration of formulated product - 3 of them approved by AllierBrasil and soon after transferred to Sharda do Brasil. Nevertheless diquat prices are much higher than paraquat.
Chlorothalonil is a very important fungicide used in vegetables and more recently in soybean in Brazil. Considering soybean is the main crop in the country, the volume amount is proportionally large as well.
On Friday 24th, the Minister of Agriculture of Brazil, Blairo Maggi, apologized for having released the information on 23rd that the provisional guardianship granted by the substitute federal judge Luciana Raquel T. de Moura, of the 7th Court of the Federal District, had been annulled. “My willingness to solve this issue is such that I ended up passing on the information that the injunction would have been revoked”, said Blairo Maggi in a Twitter post.
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