AgroPages-Brazil state extends phytosanitary emergency for corn earworm-Agricultural news

Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) has published the ordinance at a official gazette to extend in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul for one year of period of phytosanitary emergency status because of a recent infestation of the corn earworm on soybean crops.

The first phytosanitary emergency status in Mato Grosso do Sul was declared in December 19 of 2013. The decree published on last Thursday extending emergency just counting from the day December 19, 2014, when it would end the validity of the previous state of emergency. Therefore, the measure will be valid to December 19, 2015. With the maintenance of plant health emergency status, the state can give continuity health actions that had already been adopting especially for pest control.

The Gazette yet brings a normative instruction that extends the permissions of emergency use of several agrochemicals to control the earworm until March 18 of 2016. Among those are the products with virus PN-HzSNPV, Bacillus thuringiensis, Chlorantraniliprol, Chlorfenapyr and Indoxacarb.

The Gazette also states that the measure has been established as a priority for technical analysis for requests of registration of products for control, suppression and eradication of the plague under the effect of phytosanitary emergency.