The inspection carried out by the Minas Gerais Institute of Agriculture (IMA) shows that the state producers are each more aware of respecting the prohibitions imposed by the period of sanitary emptiness. According to a survey made by the institute, the number of fines applied for non-compliance with the rules was lower.
This year 815 inspections were carried out, with 37 notifications, which is when the inspector of the IMA checks some disagreement in the crop and grants the producer 10 days to regularize their situation. After this period the producer can be fined, if he persists in the nonconformity.
In the inspection carried out in 2018, only one tax assessment notice was registered for soybean cultivation, where the IMA increased the area inspected by 5% during the sanitary emptiness, which lasted from July 1 to September 30. To prevent the rusting of soybeans throughout the state went from about 223 thousand hectares last year to 244 thousand hectares in 2018. The Institute carried out 732 inspections drafting, in the end, only a tax assessment.
Bean
In the case of the sanitary vacuum of the beans, which ran from September 20 to October 20, the IMA increased this year the number of inspections that went from 46 to 57 in the period, covering an area of 10.2 thousand hectares. The sanitary void for this legume covers 18 municipalities in the Northwest of Minas Gerais, as a preventive and eradication measure for the golden mosaic and the whitefly. No tax assessment notices have been filed.
Cotton
In relation to cotton, whose period of sanitary emptiness ended this week, on November 20, about 18,000 hectares were inspected, also without registration of infraction notices. The measure seeks to eradicate the cotton boll weevil in the plantations.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.