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Brazil law speeding up pesticide approval seen stalling to 2019 -official

A proposed law to speed up approvals of new pesticides in Brazil that has drawn criticism from environmentalists is unlikely to gain congressional approval before next year, an agriculture ministry official told Reuters on Wednesday. Approval…

Brazil has established new rules for pesticides registration and research

On October 8, 2021, Brazil's federal government published a new decree that changes the rules on the production, research, registration, use, import and export of pesticides in the country. The main objectives of Decree No. 10,833 are to reformulate…

Sugar production and export records set in Brazil for 2020/21

With one month to go before the start of the 2020/21 sugar campaign (April 2020 to March 2021), Conab estimates that Brazil will break sugar production and export records. Brazil's sugar production in 2020/21 is estimated at 41.8 million tons,…

Brazil MAPA registers 21 generic technical products for use in the formulation of pesticides

On November 24, 2020, Law No. 64 of the Department of Plant Protection and Agricultural Inputs of the Ministry of Agricultural Defense was published in the Official Gazette and a record number of 21 technical products were revealed. All these…

The National Union of the Industry of Phytosanitary Products in Brazil forecasts a drop of 11.8% in the agrochemical market in 2020

The rise of the dollar against the real during the year 2020 will affect the market of phytosanitary products. Sindiveg, the National Union of the Industry of Phytosanitary Products projects a fall of 11.8% in the income in dollars this year,…

16 generic pesticides issued by MAPA Brazil have been registered

A list of 16 pesticides or generic formulated products that will be available for use by Brazilian farmers has been published in Law No. 60 of the Department of Plant Health and Agricultural Inputs of the Secretariat of Agricultural Defense…

MAPA Brazil cancels registration of paraquat based technical products

Brazil's MAPA and Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) published a joint policy instruction that defines procedures for monitoring and inspecting the use and collection of remaining stocks of products based on the active ingredient,…

Anvisa (Brazil) extends the period of use of paraquat stocks

Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) announced on 7 October that it was extending the deadline for consumption of stocks of products containing the herbicide Paraquat, which are already in the possession of farmers. This…

Brazil Anvisa maintains the decision to ban paraquat

By three votes to two, the Brazilian national health surveillance agency (Anvisa) maintained the decision to ban the active ingredient paraquat in Brazil, scheduled to come into force as of September 22, 2020, according to the rules of the Collegiate…