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Brazil set new record in agrochemicals’ registration in 2016
Jan. 23, 2017
Brazil witnessed a record number of registrations of new agrochemical products in 2016, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Mapa) said. According to Mapa, 277 new products were registered, representing a 99.2 percent increase over the previous year when only 139 new products were registered.
On an average, 140 new products are registered every year. So far, the highest number of registrations in any year was 203 in 2007.
The largest increase in the number of products registered was in a category defined as Equivalent Technical Products, popularly called products generic to Brazil. A total of 161 agrochemicals were approved in 2016, 374 percent more than in the previous year when 43 products were registered in this category.
The 38 biological or organic products reflected an increase of 65 percent over 23 approved in 2015.
Júlio Britto, General Coordinator of Agrochemicals and Related Materials at the Department of Enforcement of Agricultural Inputs at Mapa, commented, “The inclusion of new products was to control various plagues, avoid yield reduction, shore up resistance to agrochemicals and prevent an increase in costs incurred by farmers as more products will be available in the market.”
Source: AgroNews
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