Brazilian Association of Biotechnology Industries officially launched

Date:05-30-2024

The Brazilian Association of Biotechnology Industries (ABINBIO) was officially launched during BioSummit 2024, which AgroPages is covering in detail. 

The new association brings together 13 of Brazil’s most significant biological input companies, representing about half of the country’s bioinput market share. ABINBIO made the announcement with Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation), a partner in this initiative.

Brazil has taken a prominent and leading position in developing and adopting bioinputs, whose use increases exponentially with each harvest. According to ABINBIO, the association of industries in this segment aims to ensure this growth is sustainable and continuous. One of its primary roles will be to ensure that all biological inputs produced in Brazil maintain the same quality.

A concern for industries is that Brazil does not have clear legislation for this sector, which brings insecurity to all links in the production chain. To change this situation, ABINBIO announced that it will articulate a series of movements to get the industry closer to the government and public agents. A team of legal and institutional field specialists will visit everyone from the Vice President of the Republic to various levels of government and ministries, reaching regulatory agencies and public companies.

On another front, ABINBIO has been in discussions with various members of the Brazilian National Congress. These meetings are happening when Brazil has several bills underway to regulate the use of agricultural inputs, especially those of biological origin.

One of the new association’s main achievements in its first months of activity was the removal of certain legal provisions that indiscriminately allowed ″on-farm″ production of biological inputs. On another front, the associates managed to halt the commercialization of these homemade products, ensuring that there will be a "requirement for sub-regulatory regulation" whose technical production parameters will be defined by the Bioinput Technical Commission, which will regulate the topic through the Bioinput Framework.

Marcelo de Godoy, president of ABINBIO, told AgroPages that the leaders understood that the Brazilian biological industry "needed representation with the executive and legislative powers."

"This lack of representation occurred because many relevant issues to the sector were being discussed without the industry or the technical areas of the companies being involved," he explained. According to him, ABINBIO is now strengthening its network of associates to "gain more and more space in discussions and decisions related to the industry and Brazilian agricultural sector."

"Our mission is to show the world the potential of the national bioinput industry," concludes Marcelo de Godoy, president of Simbiose. In addition to him, ABINBIO has as its Technical Director the Agronomy Dr. Artur Soares, and as its Legal Director the specialist lawyer Auro Ruschel.

(Editing by Leonardo Gottems, reporter for AgroPages)