Extension of phytosanitary emergency releases Emamectin Benzoate

Date:12-23-2015

The Brazilian government published last Thursday (12.17) a decree that extends for one year more the state of phytosanitary emergency in all of Brazil. The decree No. 8,591 was adopted due to the Helicoverpa armigera outbreak and authorizes the Ministry of Agriculture to release the use of Emamectin Benzoate until the final registration of the insecticide in the country.

The substance is pointed by experts as the most effective to control the plague, but suffers resistance on the side of environmentalists and the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) that considers that the toxicity goes beyond the tolerable limits. The emergency release occurs after a meeting of the Agricultural Parliamentary Front with the Chief of Staff Minister, Jacques Wagner.

"It is the only agrochemical used in 70 countries, including the European Union – the most strict of all at the regulation of agrochemicals, and does not have a registration in Brazil. It is inadmissible that an agrochemical used in several countries in the world could not be used here,” justifies the president of the Front, federal representative Marcos Montes from the state of Minas Gerais.

According to him, agriculture in countries with tropical climate, like Brazil, have specific characteristics that favor the appearance of plagues and diseases that need effective control. The legislator comments that it is not possible to avoid the same parameters of cold-climate countries, where the climate end with diverse threats to the crops.