Deliveries of fertilizers in Brazil are expected to grow<\/b>\u00a0(considering the best scenario) to 42.8 million tonnes in the 2023\/24 harvest, compared to 41.1 million tonnes in 2022\/23, according to MB Agro’s partner Alexandre Mendon\u00e7a de Barros. However, fertilizer deliveries should take place later in 2023\/24, after starting the year at a slow pace. (MB Agro)<\/p>\n
During the launch of the Parliamentary Front in Defense of the Rice Productive Sector, at the Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, the State deputy Marcos Vin\u00edcius said the defense of agricultural aviation in Rio Grande do Sul\u00a0will be one of the objectives of the group’s work.\u00a0<\/b>“The project that aims to ban\u00a0spraying carried out by aircrafts and drones throughout Rio Grande do Sul cannot be approved<\/b>, and we are going to work to\u00a0avoid\u00a0it”, said Marcos Vin\u00edcius. The State is responsible for approximately 70% of the rice in Brazil. The rice crop is especially dependent on agricultural aviation because it is flooded during a large part of its cycle. (Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Sul)<\/p>\n
Purchase of fertilizers for 2023\/24 soybean season reached 87% of the necessary total<\/b>\u00a0during the\u00a0last\u00a0two months. Value spent by farmers reached the highest level for this period in the last five years, even with the industry suffering the consequences of the delay in the purchases by farmers. (Agrinvest; Ita\u00fa BBA)<\/p>\n
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Syngenta’s sales fell 3.3%, reaching US$ 17.5 billion<\/b>\u00a0in the 1H of 2023. Crop protection sales fell 5.8%, to US$ 8.1 billion, decreasing in Europe, Africa, Middle East,\u00a0Latin America,<\/b> and Asia-Pacific (excluding China), but increasing in North America. The seeds division had an 8.7% increase in sales, reaching US$ 2.5 billion, with improvements in all major regions, with the exception of Latin America. According to Syngenta, Latin America\u00a0showed\u00a0an accelerated demand in the 1H of 2022,\u00a0because of the\u00a0concern of farmers with bottlenecks in the supply of agrochemicals,\u00a0which\u00a0also resulted in higher costs and selling prices. (Syngenta<\/a>)<\/p>\n The company Nova, from Santa Fe,\u00a0Argentina<\/b>, announced an\u00a0investment of US$ 15 million to build a microgranulated fertilizer factory.<\/b>\u00a0“We want to have the products already available for the new wheat season”, said Mauro Piva, CEO of Nova. (Nova)<\/p>\n Researchers in\u00a0Bolivia<\/b>\u00a0are\u00a0transforming forest residues into biochar<\/b>, a carbon-rich product that can be used as fertilizer. Jos\u00e9 Grajeda Cruz, head of R&D at Exomad Green, based in Concepci\u00f3n, said biochar has benefits that help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Exomad Green has the largest global biochar production project, removing 300,000 tonnes of waste and producing 90,000 tonnes of biochar per year. \u201cFor Bolivia, the most important thing is that, by improving crop yields, [the use of biochar] reduces deforestation because local people no longer need to cut down forests to compensate for reduced productivity caused by soil degradation,\u201d he said. Jose Cruz. (Exomad Green)<\/p>\n Yacimientos Petrol\u00edferos Fiscales Bolivianos – YPFB, a\u00a0Bolivian<\/b>\u00a0state-owned company, announced it will\u00a0deliver 2,500 tonnes of granulated urea<\/b>\u00a0to the Granulated Fertilizer Production Plant in Cochabamba. \u201cWe have 60 days to deliver this amount of urea\u201d, said the president of YPFB, Armin Dorgathen. (YPFB)<\/p>\n Government of\u00a0Brazil<\/b>\u00a0formalized its interest in buying fertilizers from\u00a0Bolivia<\/b>\u00a0and proposed\u00a0investments in new urea, potassium chloride and NPK production plants<\/b>, according to the Minister of Hydrocarbons and Energy, Franklin Molina Ortiz. “The government of President In\u00e1cio Lula da Silva… sees Bolivia as the best ally to generate investments in new industrial facilities and even in a petrochemical plant,\u201d said Ortiz. (Ministry of Hydrocarbons and Energy)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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