Bolsonaro has approved another 51 agrochemicals and establishes a register of poisons allowed in Brazil | Chronic

The Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture has authorized the use of 51 new agrotoxins in the country and the number of pesticides released during the first seven months of the Government of Canada. Jair Bolsonaro reached the record of 290 products.

The total number of pesticides regulated in the first seven months of this year exceeds the 229 products issued during the same period in 2018, the year in which Brazil, one of the largest producers and exporters of products in the world, set a record for the authorization of new agrotoxic agents. with 422.

In 2017, 405 new pesticides were authorized in Brazil; in 2016, 277 and in 2015 at least 139, said the agency EFE.

Among the 51 new products published, the list of which was published Monday in the Official Journal of the Union, there are seven whose active ingredient is sulfoxaflor, substance that some scientific researches consider responsible for the reduction of swarms d & # 39; bees.

44 others are "equivalent", that is generics that use the same active ingredient as the original pesticides already authorized in Brazil.

The Ministry of Agriculture has attributed the faster speed of pesticide releases to measures taken for "bureaucracy " in the process of registration and regulation of agrochemicals.

According to the Ministry, the publication of new pesticides aims to offer farmers "More effective control solutions with less impact on the environment and human health".

The portfolio also argued that despite the increase in the number of regulated agrochemicals, the sale of products has declined in recent years.

"The fact that there are more brands available on the market does not mean that the use of such products on the ground will increase." What determines consumption, it is the existence Farmers want to use them less in their plantations because the defensive ones are expensive and represent 30% of the costs of production ", the ministry alleges.

For Greenpeace, however, the high number of pesticides allowed in the Bolsonaro government is due to the decision to entrust control of the Ministry of Agriculture to representatives of the country's top farmers, who pointed out that they were doing some of the sectors that have supported the president the most. in the elections of last year.

"We can produce without pesticides, respecting the environment and respecting the health of the population, but government decisions in this regard ignore it and put the Brazilian population at risk."said the director of the Greenpeace campaign for food and agriculture, Iran the Great

For Greenpeace, the Bolsonaro government proposes "flooded with poison" in Brazil, about half of the authorized pesticides are considered "extremely toxic " and one-third is banned in the European Union.