Newsletter AgriBrasilis - June 06th
Ricardo Santin ?is the president of the?Brazilian Association of Animal Protein –?ABPA, of the board of directors of the Brazilian Institute of Eggs and vice-president of the International Poultry Council .
Should the recent cases of avian influenza affect the Brazilian market?
No. The recorded cases refer to wild birds. For this reason, there is no change in the Brazilian health status before the World Organization for Animal Health.
It should be remembered that Brazil has never registered the disease in commercial birds. Both domestic supply and exports remain at normal levels, and should continue to do so.
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Impact of the?El Ni?o weather phenomenon on agriculture is expected to increase food prices and food insecurity?in Central America, especially in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua. Forecasts point to a high probability of below average rainfall and high temperatures from June until August. (FAO)
Exports of agricultural products in Mexico grew by 6%?during the 1Q of 2023, reaching US$ 13.42 billion. (Department of Agriculture)
Peru ranks fifth among the countries with the highest food inflation rates in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is surpassed by Argentina, Colombia, Honduras and Chile. According to the IMF, the country’s inflation reached 14.47%. There was a?7% drop in the agricultural?market?during the 2022/23 season. (International Monetary Fund;?The World Bank)
Only a small?share?of Uruguay’s agricultural land has irrigation infrastructure, that worsens the drought the country is facing.?225 thousand hectares are irrigated, out of a total of over 16 million.?Bernardo B?cking, production manager at Donistar, said that farmers are reluctant to adopt irrigation infrastructure because of high costs and technical difficulties.
Marco Faria ?is the commercial director at? FMC Corporation , an agronomist from the State University of S?o Paulo, with an MBA in business management from Dom Cabral Foundation.
How is the agrochemical market behaving in Brazil?
Globally, the market faced two challenging years, with price increases and product shortages. Now, we are in an adjustment phase. Gradually, the market will settle down and this will be reflected throughout the chain.
The market is more concerned with sustainability and has been changing and adding new technologies for this purpose. Moreover, the consolidation of our industry in the biologicals market is a reality.
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FMC has contributed to this trend over the past few years. In 2023, we will launch five products, of which three are biological. We are pioneers in this segment, with great capacity for discovering and developing sustainable technology for crop protection.
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Pesticide prices decrease for the first time?after rising for more than 30 months in?Colombia. “Although this is a moderate drop in the prices of pesticides, the trend towards stabilization that this group is beginning to show stands out. We hope it continues in the next months”, said?Felipe Fonseca Fino, director of?Unidad de Planificación Rural Agropecuaria-UPRA.
Beekeepers in?Costa Rica?demand the government?to?ban fipronil, after suspension of an executive decree that?has?prohibited?its?use.
From?January?to?April of 2023, Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos?sold?more than US$ 10.7 million of 22,693 tonnes of granulated urea?to the?Bolivian?domestic market.
Mirta Toribio, head of research and development at?Profertil Agro?commented on the fertilizer scenario after the drought in the country.?“We’ve been talking about the best management practices for nutrition for years… When we talk about correct dosages, we must refer to diagnostic tools, and the main one is soil analysis. We must remember that farmers are worried, and their pockets are tight.?Therefore, more than ever, we must be efficient with inputs”.
“Atlas of pesticides”?research, developed by scientific and environmental organizations from Germany and France, concluded that?49% of pesticides sold in Brazil are considered extremely dangerous.?“In the short term, Brazil needs to eliminate and ban substances that are considered highly toxic. Also, the country should?ban aerial spraying at the national level. Third, it should?eliminate tax exemptions for pesticides and approve a national policy to reduce the?use of?pesticides”, said?Larissa Mies Bombardi, professor at?Universidade de S?o Paulo.?
Grazielle Parenti ?is the business and sustainability head for Latin America at? Syngenta , vice president of the Swiss-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce and professor at the Higher School?of Advertising and Marketing – ESPM.?Parenti?holds a degree in business administration from Funda??o Getulio Vargas , with an MBA in marketing from the University of S?o Paulo.
How has the agroindustry participants view on ESG policies evolved?
The ESG agenda is present in the daily lives of many Brazilian agribusiness professionals. The tendency is for this movement to consolidate more and more in the coming years. What supports us in predicting this is the evolution of the regulatory and business environment, that encourages a prosperous and sustainable environment for farmers and companies that comply with environmental, sustainability and governance rules.
Business sustainability is no longer a segmented interest, for specific sectors. It has become a priority for all industries and production chains. Currently, companies have an urgent need to align their products and business models with environmental issues.
Here at Syngenta, this is already a reality. We base our work around ‘innovability’, a concept that unites our efforts in innovation and sustainability in favor of acting in line with society’s expectations. In our case, this is based on regenerative agriculture. One example is the “Programa Reverte” (Revert Program), developed in partnership with Itaú BBA , TNC and Embrapa , that aims to support farmers, through agronomic protocols and long-term financing, to transform degraded pastures into productive soils, without the need to open new lands for farming.
We work with regenerative agriculture, using modern technologies that protect biodiversity and the environment, the health of nature and the soil. Soil is the basis of everything and the legacy that will be left for future generations, and it is essential to recover and preserve it. There is also the issue of climate change: agriculture is one of the activities that can evolve from being a carbon emitter to a carbon sink/carbon sequester activity, through regenerative agriculture practices.
We understand that the importance of our initiatives requires adequate resources. Therefore, Syngenta’s annual and global investment in R&D is around US$ 1.4 billion.
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