In the coming days, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply will release the registration of products based on the active ingredient Fluopiram, which can be used to combat nematodes in potato, coffee, sugarcane, corn and soybean crops and fungi in cotton crops, beans, and soybeans. The product is a molecule with highly effective fungicidal and nematicidal activities and has been in the queue for 10 years waiting for the registration application to be analyzed.
Records will be released both for technical products, which are those used by industry, and for formulated products, which are those already available for use in crops. The product is currently approved by regulatory authorities in countries in Europe, the United States and Australia, where it is available for use.
“It is a new option for controlling nematodes, which are often invisible pests, but which can cause great damage to agriculture, in addition to being a less toxic product than those already on the market”, explains the general coordinator of Pesticides and Related from the Ministry of Agriculture, Carlos Venâncio.
Products formulated based on Fluopiram offer a new mode of action for the control of nematodes, being an important tool to assist farmers in managing this pest, whose population growth is favored due to the soil and climate conditions in Brazil. Nematodes are microscopic worms present in soil, fresh and salt water and are often parasites of animals, insects and plants. They are invisible to the naked eye and live in the soil, feeding on nutrients in plant roots.
The doses of Fluopyram needed to control these pests are lower, thus reducing the disposal of packaging and mainly the amount of product applied to crops, compared to those currently available on the market.
From a toxicological and environmental point of view, all studies and information presented, as well as their leaflet recommendations, were evaluated and approved by the respective competent bodies (Anvisa and Ibama) and, therefore, considered safe for human health and the environment.
New records
In recent years, several measures to reduce bureaucracy have been adopted to make the agricultural pesticide registration queue move faster in Brazil. The objective is to approve new, less toxic and more environmentally friendly molecules, and thus replace old products.
Both at the Ministry of Agriculture, Ibama, and Anvisa, the sectors responsible for analyzing pesticide registrations were reorganized and had servers relocated, which led to an increase in productivity and the registration of less toxic products.
Source: DATA
