28 agchem companies are fined in Paraguay

The National Service of Plant Quality and Health and Seeds (Senave) of Paraguay has condemned 28 companies of agrochemicals in the last two years for not complying with the regulations related to the imports and sales of the products. Local companies as well as multinationals were penalized with heavy fines.

Among the condemned companies are the suppliers of fertilizers and crop protection products. In 2014, according to Senave, the following were condemned: Syngenta Paraguay, Ganadera Taruma, Ciabay, Market SRL, Agroindustrial Campos Nuevos SA and Agrochemical SA. Last year, the condemned companies for not following the regulations of imports of agrochemicals were: Agro Log SA, Rayo, Demetra Agrobusiness, Tecnomyl SA, Dekalpar SA, Matrisoja SA and Importaciones de Carlos Jorge Saavedra.

The most commonly broken regulations by the importing companies, according to the Direction of Juridical Issues of Senave, refer to products that enter into the country without commercial registrations, or without authorization, or expired, without origin verification or without defined concentration percentage. It was also detected that the landing of phytosanitary products in ports not enabled for right sort of effects, among other things.

Alfredo Gryciuk, current president of Senave, affirms that this year all of the regulations will be revised. The associations of importers signed a contrary position for the control regulations and for the identification of agrochemicals proposed by the old administration of Senave, which was replaced by the Gryciuk administration.