Banco do Brasil announces first project contracts of carbon credit
Almost 80% of wheat farms are classified as bad or regular. Only 15% are in good condition and 5% in excellent condition. Area lost as a result of lack of water and frost should be a record in 2022. (Rosário Stock Exchange)
Government raised more than US$ 7 billion due to the “soybean dollar” in September, surpassing the forecast of US$ 5 billion. (Central Bank of Argentina)
Frozen and chilled beef exports reached 56.7 thousand tonnes in August, totaling US$ 329.2 million. (Argentine Consortium of Meat Exporters)
Four species of fungi of the genus Fusarium, which cause “sudden death disease” in soybean, were identified. There is still no fungicide capable of combating the pest, reported in all soybean producing regions. The National Institute of Agricultural Technology carries out tests to establish procedures in case of infection. (INTA)
Import restrictions cause lack of fungicides. Distributors of products for wheat and barley alert the government about lack of premium fungicide lines and the shortage of dollars for purchase of inputs. The Agricultural Health and Fertilizers Chamber admits to “a shortage in some brands, such as fungicides for treating wheat and barley”. There is also a lack of products for rice farms. According to Gustavo Capretto, president of the Federation of Agricultural Input Distributors: “there is a lack of next generation products in laboratories, with only generics being available.” Highlight for the scarcity of carboxamides. (Casafe; Fedia)
Banco do Brasil announces first project contracts of carbon credit. Approximately 290,000 credits are expected to be generated annually. According to Fausto Ribeiro, president of Banco do Brasil, “from analyses on 80 properties across the country, our technical teams mapped about 500 thousand hectares of land that can be enabled for the Carbon Market. Of this total, 150,000 hectares gained the status of pre-assessed for project viability”. (Bank of Brazil)
Pretaterra, an agroforestry consultancy from Timburi, State of São Paulo, announces Cargill as a partner in the “Agroforestry in the Atlantic Forest” project, which promotes the restoration of the biome through implementation of agroforestry systems and the recovery of degraded landscapes. (Pretaterra; Cargill)
Instituto BrasilAgro was accepted in the UN Global Compact, an initiative that joins companies committed to promote the Sustainable Development Goals. (BrasilAgro)
B3 Stock Exchange announces the creation of an index that will monitor the performance of futures contracts of corn, called IFMILHO B3, developed to give market participants a tool to manage the risk of price fluctuations, allowing them to know in advance how much they will receive for production. (B3 Stock Exchange)
Cotton production in the State of Bahia is estimated at 587 thousand tonnes of lint, in an area of 308 thousand hectares. It is expected to produce approximately 12% more cotton in 2022/23, in the Sate. Average yield is estimated at 1.9 thousand kg/hectare. “In this season, we suffer from poor distribution of rainfall during strategic periods of estabilishment and development of crops”, says Luiz Carlos Bergamaschi, president of Abapa. (Association of Cotton Farmers from Bahia)
MAPA submits for public consultation, for a period of 60 days, a proposal for change in the National Program for the Prevention and Control of the disease called Huanglongbing, also known as greening, caused by the bacterium Candidatus liberibacter spp. (Ministry of Agriculture)
The presence of caterpillar hybrids of Helicoverpa was confirmed in Brazil. Samples of the caterpillars H. armigera and H. zea, collected in the State of Mato Grosso and analyzed by researchers from UK and Australia, through complete genome sequencing, confirm hybridization. Use of different integrated management tactics should be adopted. It is not yet possible to determine the impact of hybrid caterpillars in Brazilian agriculture, but there is great potential for damage, as well as the evolution of resistance to different chemical insecticides. (UFG; CSIRO Black Mountain Laboratories; Corteva Agriscience)
Announced creation of Florida Desert National Park, located 30 km south of Copiacó and 85 km north of Vallenar. Objective is to protect biodiversity and the famous local flowering. “The flowering desert is a heritage of biodiversity and an incredible natural spectacle, that put at risk every time someone cuts a flower, steps on it or drives through this territory. In this place, more than 200 species of plants bloom every 3 or 5 or 10 years, depending on the weather conditions…”, said the Minister of National Heritage, Javiera Toro. (Ministry of Agriculture)
Minagri will provide US$ 2.11 million to two thousand strawberry farmers who had production affected by the nematode Aphelenchoides fragariae. (Ministry of Agriculture)
Study performed by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia reveals that residues from the leaves of granadilla passion fruit contain flavonoids with therapeutic effects on diabetes. According to the research, mice that received granadilla passion fruit leaf extract showed an 80% decrease in glucose levels compared to animals without treatment. (National University of Colombia)
First container of bell pepper shipped to the USA after 18 months of Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s permission. The product, grown in the municipality of El Dovio, in Valle del Cauca, by the company Pimentonera Santa María, and dispatched by Clasifruit, left the port of Santa Marta for the terminal in Miami. With this, Colombia completes 108 fresh agricultural products with permission to enter the US market. (Bell Pepper Santa Maria; Clasifruit)
USA may appeal to the USMCA trade agreement to challenge Mexican policies on banning GMO corn, according to US Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack. Mexican government officials, including Agriculture Minister Víctor Villalobos, have indicated that imports of yellow corn for animal feed will not be affected by the GMO ban. (Ministry of Agriculture of Mexico; USDA)
Low temperatures caused by La Niña put the 2022/23 mango harvest at risk, causing abortion or downfall of fruits. The Peruvian Association of Mango Exporters had warned of the possible negative effects of the cold season, indicating that there would be a lot of flowering on the trees, but also a lot of fruit loss caused by the temperature of 15 degrees Celsius, two degrees below normal levels. (Biofruit Export; APEM)
Regulation 672/022, published in June, was modified again, changing the registration for agrochemical applications. The update determines that individuals or legal entities that apply agrochemicals in their own farms, using land equipment with tanks greater than or equal to 1,000 L and/or aerial equipment, must register in the Single Operators Registry. It is mandatory to register equipment through a form, under penalty of sanction if rules are not complied with. (Ministry of Agriculture)
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