Agrochemicals: giant as the production

Mato Grosso accounted for one fifth of the pesticide industry's revenue in Brazil, last year. For the 7th year in a row was the largest market for segment, consolidating in 2012 a 14.28% registered in the previous year and the national average of 14%.
A global revenue of $ four billion recorded from January to December 2012, Mato Grosso accounted for $ 2 billion. In the defensive industry grossed US $ 8.48 billion and the State, $ 1.75 billion. In this range, local participation increased from 20.6% in the national cake to 21.4%, followed by São Paulo with 15.3%. The evolution was pulled by the increase of the harvest of grains, especially soybeans and corn. "In the specific case of Mato Grosso, the breakthrough came by, that even being the national leader in the production of oleaginous, follows widely produced," says the Executive Director of the National Association of plant defense (Andef), Eduardo Daher.
Even though the consolidated industry leader, there is room to grow even more within the segment, expanding participation in national revenue. As Daher, smile (460 km north of Cuiabá), produces more grain that São Paulo alone, where the shrinking grain production at the expense of coffee, citrus, eucalyptus and sugar cane. "The cattle, for example, where Mato Grosso is also a national leader, still offers plenty of space for a few heads, are about 1.2 animals per hectare. If 30% of this area is released and finished cattle in feedlots, Mato Grosso can further expand production and best, without any interference of the environment ". As he notes, "I see Mato Grosso with much optimism with the advent of crop-livestock integration".
BOTTLENECK-Even with the potential to maintain continuous production, there is a strong vulnerability in Mato Grosso: "is a State that still suffers from infrastructure, freight up eroding income. The intervention on this bottleneck is urgent ", warns Daher.
The Vice President of the National Union of Agricultural Protection products industry (Sindag), Amaury Samson, complete saying that even a giant, Mato Grosso has the potential not only to expand the production, as well as incorporate new technologies. "A lot is to be done and grow within the field, but the side vulnerable by a lack of logistics makes the evolution of Mato Grosso".
BRAZIL-To this year's projected growth of Sindag order of 4% in the agrochemical market. The spokesmen reported that in 2013 the industry will invest in an institutional marketing strategy focused on its activities within the framework of science and food production, as well as the dissemination of existing programs that contribute to sustainability in agriculture.