Brazil Registration Watch: Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture registers 38 generic crop protection products

The Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture has registered 38 new crop protection products all of which use active ingredients previously registered in the country, according to Act 43 of the Department of Plant Health and Agricultural Inputs of the Department of Agricultural Defense that was published on July 31, in the Official Gazette.

“The new records are important because they reduce the concentration of the pesticide market and increase competition, which results in fairer trade and lower production costs for Brazilian agriculture,” stated the general coordinator of agrochemicals and similar products, Bruno Breitenbach.

Among the products registered, 13 are biological products, 11 of which are composed of microorganisms such as Beauveria bassiana, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens or Metarhizium anisopliae, which are biological pest control agents that attack Brazilian crops. Another product uses the Cotesia flavipes wasp for the biological control of the sugarcane borer. Another low-impact product that uses an oil extracted from the Azadirachta indica plant of Indian origin known as Neem and has natural insecticidal effects, which can even be used for organic crops.

In addition to the Neem extract, four other products of biological pesticides are authorized for use in pest control of organic crops. In all, in 2020, 45 products were considered to be of low impact (biological and organic).