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Delay in registration of agrochemicals grows 45% per year in Brazil
May. 22, 2017
The annual deficit in registration of agrochemicals grows 45 percent in Brazil, resulting in huge losses for farm businesses in the country. Last year, there were 400 new registration requests by the makers but only 277 products had their process granted, though this number was the highest ever.
The bottlenecks of this system, as well as the renewal of the Law of Agrochemicals (7.802/89), were highlighted during the monthly meeting of the Agricultural Council in Brasília. The Brazilian Association of Cotton Growers presented preliminary data from a study that intends to subsidize decision of the responsible agencies for the registration of agrochemicals in the public power.
Of the 277 agrochemicals that were registered in 2016, just five products were new. The remaining were generic and technical products for formulation. This reflects the need for innovation in the control of plagues and diseases.
“This vulnerability of production affects the international competiveness of Brazil. We are below our competitors, like the United States, where three years are taken to register a new product and around a year to put a generic product in the market,” Arlindo de Azevedo Moura, president of the Association, explained.
According to him, even in South America, the deadlines are shorter. It is two and a half years in Argentina, a year and a half in Paraguay, and less than a year in Uruguay. The big difference in these countries is that the registration process is handled by just one agency and the evaluation system is electronic.
“Firstly, it is necessary to change the concept of agrochemicals and the myth that Brazil consumes most of these products in the world. We are the sixth largest world consumer. This should be understood from relative data due to the dimensions of our agricultural production and the fact that we are a tropical country,” he said.
He defended that products whose patents have expired and fallen into the public domain can be registered as generic. This measure, he explained, could help to reduce the production costs to increase competition in the market.
Source: AgroNews
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