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Corn earworm exposes precariousness of pesticide registration in Brazil
Jan. 19, 2015
Almir Dalpasquale, president of the Brazilian Association of Soybean Growers said "Brazil still lose much by not having a phytosanitary policy adjusted to the field's needs and dynamism". According to him, "a new pest that entered in the country leaves this pretty clear".
He cites as an example the case of the corn earworm, Helicoverpa armigera, which is seen on corn, soybean, and cotton crops in the country. "The government's response time to release crop protection products and organizing a control plan of this pest exposed the precariousness of all the registration system and the availability of technologies, including generic and biological products".
Dalpasquale tells that the association was required to elaborate priority products list and intensify the political pressure over government agencies. "The entity noticed the big bottleneck, the law and current norms have restricted science and give freedom to the beasts of bureaucracy by creating a huge office. If we consider that the average time for registration is six years from the launching of a new product, this is the same thing as condemning the new products to be obsolete" he commented .
The union leader said that the association worked throughout the year 2014 on a proposal to update the agrochemicals legal framework. "But this is an issue to be resolved on a mid-term perspective. Therefore, we have a lot of work to do in 2015".
Source: AgroNews
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