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Brasil acaba de cosechar su segundo ciclo de maíz, popularmente llamado “Milho Safrinha” (Second Season corn en inglés), en las regiones Central y Sur del país. De acuerdo con la Empresa Brasileña de Investigación Agropecuaria, EMBRAPA, la plaga mas importante de este cultivo es el Gusano Cogollero (Spodoptera frugiperda) el que puede ocasionar perdidas superiores a 40 % de producción de maíz, el cereal mas cultivado en el país.
In other words, for most corn producing regions in Brazil, we are no longer monitoring the arrival of the pest, but rather detecting the beginning of its attack, since we assume that fall armyworm is somehow already present in the area. The keyword continues to be 'monitoring.
The statistics for the sales of agrochemical companies show that the first ten places concentrate US$ 7,167 million in sales, which means they hold no fewer than 80.52% of the total Brazilian market. The result represents a slight drop of about three percentage points, compared to 2016, when the top 10 companies accounted for 83.20% of the market.
With a generalized closing down of factories due to environmental factors in China, the big world alternative for investments in the pesticides industry should be India. This was emphasized at a conference at this year’s Brazil AgrochemShow by Subhra Jyoti Roy, vice-president of Rallis India, a Tata Enterprise company.
Agronomist and lawyer from the studio Amaral e Carvalho, Dr. Paulo Cesar Campos Amaral, has assured that Bill PL No 6299/2002, which is about the issue of registration of agrochemicals, will enable the trade of safer and more efficient pesticides.
Lawyer Camila Machado de Assunção from Andrade, Foz Advogados dedicated the last few months to analyzing the risks to companies and the legal loopholes that can be used by the fiscal authorities in the new scenario. According to her, these factors should be “carefully analyzed in a way to avoid potential liabilities”.
Economist Gustavo Grisa, partner of Agencia Futuro, an impact business consultancy in Sao Paulo. He is one of the leading Brazilian professionals in public innovation, industry corporate responsibility and public-private partnerships for local and regional development, working as a policy and strategy advisor for public administrations and corporations. Grisa has an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management (USA) and is a member of the Cambridge Sustainability Network. The economist gave an exclusive interview for AgroPages.
The revenue statistics of companies producing crop protection products reveal that the first 10 companies generated US$7.9 billion in sales, which means they occupied nearly 83.2% of the Brazilian market. The result represented a slight fall in comparison to 2015, when the first 10 companies with the highest performance had occupied 84.52% of the market.
In an exclusive interview with AgroPages, Renato Seraphim, President of Albaugh Brasil, has revealed the company’s plans to expand in Brazil and around the world, by strengthening its relationship with distributors, providing the best value generic products, and offering support to farmers.
Official data from the Brazilian National Union of Crop Protection Products Industry (Sindiveg) has confirmed that there was a significant fall in sales of agrochemicals in Brazil in 2015.
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