Agricultural Defense of Mato Grosso publishes new rule on the use of pesticides

The Mato Grosso Agricultural Defense Institute (Indea-MT) published a new Normative Instruction (IN) that provides for the rules for the use of pesticides, environmental control products and the like in productive crops in the State.

IN nº 002/2024 brings as a novelty the possibility of issuing Complementary Agricultural Recipes, allowing the change of the technical recommendation when there are changes in the technical parameters that support the original recipe or when the harvest has taken place without the use of the purchased product or part of it .

“In practice, if the rural producer has purchased pesticides for soybean cultivation, but has leftover registered products that can be used to protect other crops, such as corn or cotton, for example, a legally qualified professional will be able to issue a complementary agronomic recipe , and this change must be informed to Indea-MT. Until before this regulation, this was not allowed”, comments Indea’s technical director, Renan Tomazele.

He also adds that Complementary Agricultural Recipes must be registered in the Plant Defense System (Sisdev), maintaining traceability of the use of pesticides, environmental control products and the like.

IN reiterates that pesticides, environmental control products and the like can only be sold to end users registered with Indea and upon presentation of an agronomic recipe, issued by a legally qualified professional, and can only be used in accordance with the recipe's recommendations, respecting the minimum distances provided for in the legislation, and when the application conditions do not imply the occurrence of drift in non-target areas, watercourses, people, schools, homes, groups of animals and other crops, whether cultivated or not.

Some highlights of the new rules:

• Art. 2 For the purposes of this Normative Instruction, the following are understood as: VI - complementary agronomic recipe or complementary agronomic recipe: prescription for the use of pesticides, environmental control products or the like by a legally qualified professional, issued in addition and linked to the recipe that subsidized marketing;

• Art. 3 Pesticides, environmental control products and the like can only be sold to end users registered with INDEA-MT and upon presentation of an agronomic recipe, issued by a legally qualified professional, except in exceptional cases defined by the bodies responsible for the agricultural sectors, health and environment.

• Art. 5 In cases where, after the acquisition and before the use of the pesticide, environmental control product or similar, there are changes in the technical parameters that originated the Agricultural Recipe, issued prior to the acquisition of the pesticide, environmental control product or similar, due to the need to change technical recommendations, or when the harvest has passed without the use of the purchased product or part of it, a Complementary Agricultural Recipe must be issued, based on the products contained in the Producer's Pesticide Extract, which must be linked and cited the Agricultural Revenue that subsidized the acquisition.

• Art. 6 The information inherent to the Complementary Agricultural Recipe must be made available via SISDEV, or another system that replaces it, by the end user, or SISDEV user indicated by the same, before using the product.

• Art. 5 In cases where, after the acquisition and before the use of the pesticide, environmental control product or similar, there are changes in the technical parameters that originated the Agricultural Recipe, issued prior to the acquisition of the pesticide, environmental control product or similar, due to the need to change technical recommendations, or when the harvest has passed without the use of the purchased product or part of it, a Complementary Agricultural Recipe must be issued, based on the products contained in the Producer's Pesticide Extract, which must be linked and cited the Agricultural Revenue that subsidized the acquisition.

• Art. 6 The information inherent to the Complementary Agricultural Recipe must be made available via SISDEV, or another system that replaces it, by the end user, or SISDEV user indicated by the same, before using the product.