Direct from France, we visited a center for scientific and technological development of algae in the north of France, in the region of Brittany.
The products extracted from the different sugars that algae produce, in their various microscopic layers, are transformed into spectacular preventive for human, animal and plant health.
When used to prevent animal diseases, which ends up allowing the reduction of the use of antibiotics, a critical issue today in the French and European food environment. Likewise, when it is sprayed on the plants it increases the vegetal health, which also ends up being a protection, diminishing fungicides in the agriculture.
And so, in the same way, in human health is clear. A healthy chicken ends up passing this virtue to the end consumer; as well as vegetables, which would be of immense importance mainly in the vegetable and fruit industry, with products we consume in natura, such as tomatoes, strawberries, potatoes, among others.
And why are not we still with these products in full use in Brazil? It is not science, technology, logistics, or anything, just one thing: the giant bureaucracy and the tower of babel to register these products in Brazil. In addition to an inconceivable delay, which delays the access of the best science of our producer and consumer, there is still a gigantic cost for the procedures and approvals.
It is time to have a much faster procedure, particularly in the case of agribusiness, in Brazilian patents and in knowledge registries already approved in serious countries of the world, if this is a clear need of Brazilian producers.
So, for example, we will have protection of crops with algae, and more than that, we can stop using chemicals that are not indicated for certain plants simply because we do not have the registration in Brazil of those already approved abroad. Such delays and costs harm not only innovations such as algae, but in the same way access to new chemical molecules that are in use in other countries for mainly greenhouses.
It’s time to create a ‘Uber’ for records in Brazil, and break this dictatorship that takes years, and costing fortunes. Take care! The virtual world is knocking everything down, and it’s going to knock this lazy bug out of records in Brazil. I think it’s time to create the Brazilian virtual government. Who knows, who knows?
* José Luiz Tejon Megido is Fiscal Counselor of the Scientific Council of Sustainable Agro (CCAS) and Directs the Agribusiness Nucleus of ESPM