Political factor hinders products registration in Brazil

One of the major difficulties for the registration of new agrochemicals in Brazil is the "political factor". This is the evaluation of agronomist Flávio Hirata, from AllierBrasil, a company specialized on the registration and markets of agrochemicals at the seventh Brasil Agrochem Show, held last August 18 in São Paulo.

"It is very hard to project something on a mid-term scenario because of decisions related to the new regulations of product registration - which is the bigger challenge - depends on the political decision. So getting out from the technical scope - it is law that changes the regulation. What is going to happen it is not very predictable in political terms", explains Hirata.

The agronomist said that "there are a lot of challenges to invest in Brazil. The first is the registration. The second is the market access, in addition to the credit and deadline payment issues. We have juridical, regulatory, and economy uncertainty, such as the variation of currency rates and agricultural credit".