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 ...

Bolivian rural workers, the national pesticide industry association and other partners collected or recycled some 172 tonnes of empty plastic pesticide containers in 2011, the national agrochemical industry association, the Apia, reports. The association’s previously released figures for such collections amounted to some 152 tonnes covering the 12 months until the end of June 2011. That included some 78% that had been tripled rinsed. By that time, some 450 tonnes had been collected since the ...

Brazilian orange juice exporters have called on the Ministry of Agriculture to request the US authorities to agree a phase-out of use of carbendazim on oranges destined for export to the country. Orange growers in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo are already switching fungicide applications away from carbendazim, Brazilian newspaper Globo reports. President of the Ministry-linked chamber of citrus crops, Marco Antônio dos Santos, says that a trend is already under way in which growers are ...

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 ...

Agrochemical companies in Venezuela are to supply the main pesticides used on cereals at a lower price for this winter season, the agrochemical industry association, the Afaquima, says. The move is part of the Ministry of Agriculture’s integrated agricultural development plan, the PIDA. Pesticides for use on maize, rice and sorghum were made available at a “special offer” on April 15th. The offer will continue throughout the country’s winter cycle season, Afaquima executive director Amparo Ruiz ...

Brazil suffered a steep drop in agrochemical dollar sales in the first four months of 2009 despite a rise in national currency terms. The heavy fall of the Brazilian real against the dollar led to a 26.4% fall in sales to $1,209 million, figures from the Brazilian agrochemical industry trade association, the Sindag, show. Sales rose by 2.4% in reals to R$2,781 million. Sales for the month of April were down for all segments. Herbicide sales in reals grew most strongly for the first four ...

Guatemala has set contentious new requirements for the registration of agrochemical products. The Ministry of Agriculture resolution, Accord 127/2009, was issued in April. It covers new registrations, approval renewals, endorsement, revocation and re-evaluation of registrations. Industry has reacted with alarm. There are irregularities on intellectual property rights, inadequate reference profiles, and possible violations of multilateral agreements at government and industry level, the ...