Argentina has updated rules for pesticide active ingredient and product registrants. The national animal and plant health inspection service, the Senasa, issued a resolution in November, detailing rules that had not been anticipated in earlier legislation. Data requirements on the origin of ais and formulated products are growing, the Senasa says. For example, the need for those applying to register products formulated in more than one plant was not foreseen. Resolution 822/2011 sets the ...

Peru has ordered the withdrawal of three pesticide active ingredients within three months and lifted the suspension of all registrations of products based on another two. The Ministry of Agriculture’s plant and animal health service, the Senasa, has confirmed the bans of the insecticides, aldicarb and endosulfan, and ordered the removal of all insecticides/plant growth regulators based on lead arsenate. Resolution 0013/2012 grants registrants of the three ais 90 days from February 1st to ...

United Phosphorus recorded an increase of 63.1% in agrochemical sales to Rs 17,013 million ($333 million at the current rate) in its third quarter ended December 31st 2011. Agrochemicals accounted for some 91% of the company's total sales of Rs 18,717 million ($367 million), which grew by 57.4%. Domestic sales accounted for a fifth of total revenues. Profit after tax on all sales was up by 62.8% to Rs 1,340 million ($26 million). Nine-month agrochemical sales grew by 43.7% to Rs 48,268 million ...

The latest version of proposals to allow national bans on the cultivation of EU-approved genetically modified crops suggests that deals could be reached with companies to exclude countries from their marketing plans. A compromise proposal, drawn up by the Danish EU Presidency, also seeks to broaden the range of environmental reasons that member states could invoke for restricting GM crop cultivation. The Danish officials are seeking to break the stalemate on the issue that has persisted since ...

The setting of criteria for EU member states to ban the cultivation of EU-approved genetically modified crops occupied centre stage during the year, despite the fact that it was also the year when the EU agrochemical Regulation (1107/2009) was incorporated into national law in EU member states. The stage was set at the beginning of 2011 when the European Commission bowed to pressure from member states and agreed to produce a list of possible reasons for imposing restrictions or bans on GM ...

The year began with an executive order from US President Barack Obama calling for a review of regulation by the EPA and other agencies. Top of the industry’s wish-list for regulatory reforms were an improved consultation process between agencies on pesticide risks to endangered species and new legislation to avoid the need for permits to apply pesticides over water. While some progress was made, the industry wish-list remained just that as the year drew to a close. The President’s order ...

The year started with news of the continuing rebound in Brazilian agrochemical sales on an already record 2009, and confidence of better things to come. The industry reported record sales of over $7,200 million for 2010. By late in the fourth quarter of 2011, the sector’s sales were rising at 10% above the previous year and were on target to top $8,000 million. Official figures also noted a boom in imports, rising some 14% for the major part of the year. South America’s second-largest national ...