The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA), the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Resources (IBAMA), the National Sanitary Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) and the Brazilian Cotton Institute (IBA) 13), a technical cooperation agreement for the development of the Integrated Agrochemicals System (SIA), which will reduce the registration deadlines for new substances and generic products.
Currently, the average time for generics is four years and up to eight years for new molecules. The Brazilian Cooperation Agency of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Brazilian Association of Cotton Producers (Abrapa) are also participating in the project.
Associated with the new system, SIA applications will be developed for Android and IOS platforms. The estimated cost for the implementation of the System is US $ 2.5 million. Currently, Agrofit has registered about 2,000 formulated products, of which approximately 50% are generic.
According to the Secretary of Defense for Agriculture and Livestock of the Map, Luis Rangel, SIA will unify all requests for registration of these existing products to MAPA, IBAMA and ANVISA. The advantages of the new system, which will work in two years, will be transparency and speed in the registration process. “In two and a half years of the administration of Minister Blairo Maggi, more than 1,100 records of more modern and less toxic products were made to the environment and human health,” explained Rangel. About 1,500 registration applications are still pending.
Cotton farmers took the lead in the project because this crop is the one most dependent on innovative pesticides because of the high incidence and variety of crop pests. In the case of cotton, pesticides account for 30% of the cost of production. In other cultures the proportion is around 15%.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.