AgroPages-100% of price variation of imported mancozeb in Brazil-Agricultural news

Flavio Hirata

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Mancozeb, first registered in the United States by Rohm and Haas in 1962, is a wide spectrum fungicide used in Brazil through 55 brand names.

This non-systemic and protective action on contact fungicide has as main suppliers factories from India and Colombia that trade this commodity to all over the world.

In Brazil it is used on vegetables, coffee, black-beans, fruits, wheat and more recently on soybean, stands alone and in several types of mixtures with different active ingredients.

There is a considerable price import variation between source, brand name and type of formulation that could reach up almost 100%. In the last 12 months (Dec 2017 till Nov 2018), 75% WG was the most imported formulation followed by 80% WP, with 27,511 and 7,765 imported metric tons, respectively, according to the IMPORT REPORT by AllierBrasil.

IMPORT REPORT by AllierBrasil

(Sep ~ Nov 2018)

BRAND	SOURCE country of origin	IMPORTED PRICES month and year
BRAND	SOURCE country of origin	Sep 2018	Oct 2018	Nov 2018
80% WP
EMZEB 800 WP	Coromandel / India	133	127	NDR
FORTUNA 800 WP	Agria / Bulgaria	NDR	NDR	136
MANFIL 800 WP	Indofil / India	100	100	100
MANZATE 800	UPL / India	107	102	112
75% WG
MANZATE 750 WG	UPL / Colombia	127	122	132
PENNCOZEB 750 WG	UPL / India	119	NDR	NDR
UNIZEB GOLD 750	UPL / Colombia	190	183	198
UNIZEB GOLD 750	UPL / India	148	142	154
Maximum variation		+ 90%	+ 83%	+ 98%