Producers from the State of Mato Grosso are champions in soybean productivity contest

The company DuPont Crop Protection held on the 4th, in Chapada dos Guimarães (MT), the award event for the DuPont Colheita Mato Grosso program. The company's initiative annually recognizes soybean farmers in the region who obtain the highest productivity rates based on the pest and disease treatment method called DuPont Soybean Program, applied from the pre-planting stage until the oilseed harvest.

The top three in the southern region of Mato Grosso were producers Andrei Rijkoff, from the city of Paranatinga, Jakson Furlan, from the municipality of Primavera do Leste, and Epifanio Roberto Blanco, from Campo Verde.

Andrei Rijkoff was selected to participate in the national stage of the productivity contest, which will take place this month, bringing together award-winning producers in other regions of the Brazilian soybean agricultural frontier, such as Bahia, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, among others.

According to DuPont, around 330 producers are registered to participate in this year's edition of the DuPont Colheita Farta program. The contest regulations consider the productivity indicators found on the properties of registered farmers during the 2016/17 harvest, which recently ended.

DuPont Colheita Farta is an exclusive project of DuPont Brasil Crop Protection. The initiative's central objective is to disseminate management practices for resistance to agricultural pesticides involving a set of the company's technologies: the fungicide Aproach Prima, the insecticide for seed treatment Dermacor, the insecticides Avatar, Benevia, Lannate and Premio and the herbicide Classic.

“The inputs that make up the DuPont Soy Program are high technology and help producers achieve high productivity rates throughout the country. The insecticide Lannate is applied in the pre-planting stage. Dermacor seed treatment, recommended at the planting stage, while Classic herbicide is used to desiccate the crop. In the crop development phase, the program covers the insecticides Avatar, Benevia, Lannate and Premio, in addition to the fungicide Aproach Prima”, summarizes the marketing director of DuPont Brasil, Raphael Godinho.