Technologies from the Biological Institute bring an economic benefit of R$ 398.5 million annually to Brazilian agriculture

Published 2021년 9월 8일

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The Biological Institute (IB-APTA) of the Secretariat of Agriculture and Supply of São Paulo state has developed technologies that are used by all 120 national companies that produce biological inputs, resulting in an annual economic benefit of R$ 398.5 million. These technologies, which use specific strains for various crops, help control pests naturally and have led to significant cost savings in the use of traditional chemical products. The Institute maintains the Biological Control Innovation and Transfer Program (Probio) to promote innovation and technology transfer in biological control, and also works with companies in Paraguay and Panama.

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The technologies developed by the Biological Institute (IB-APTA), of the Secretariat of Agriculture and Supply of the State of São Paulo, are used by 100% of the 120 national companies that produce biological inputs. The selected IB strains for use in sugarcane, pasture, citrus, banana, rubber, strawberry and flowers bring economic benefit of R$ 398.5 million annually, with savings in the use of traditional chemical products. According to IB researcher José Eduardo Marcondes de Almeida, the strains selected by the IB are used in two million hectares of sugarcane in Brazil, four million hectares of soybeans, three thousand hectares of ornamental plants and strawberries and thousand hectares of banana, "These strains are used for the natural control of important pests of these crops, such as Sphenophorus levis and leafhopper in sugarcane and whitefly in soybeans", he says. The use of these inputs can result in savings of R$145 per hectare for the control of the leafhopper, R$115 for ...

Source: GrupoCultivar