The Essere Group, the national agro holding company, announces the acquisition of Ruralvit Biotech, a company with great know-how in the production of virus-based technologies.
Antonio Carlos de Gissi Jr., CEO of Essere Group, says that the purchase of the new company will complement Bionat's portfolio, and will begin supplying the market with biologicals based on fungi, bacteria and viruses. “We plan to deliver the best solution to the market to leverage more and more actions in this segment”, he celebrates. Also according to the CEO, Ruralvit Biotech's production line will undergo modernization and automation for large-scale production. “We aim to triple the production of virus-based pesticides”, he highlights.
Luiz Fernando Schmitt, Marketing and New Business Director at the Group, reveals that investments will be made in 2022 to expand the production capacity of the virus line, modernize the factory, including allowing for a greater supply of technologies to control the caterpillar. Cartridge (Spodoptera frugiperda), which is a pest that heavily affects corn, soybean and cotton crops. “The control of fall armyworm is one of the greatest needs of farmers today, aiming to maintain crop production potential”, points out Schmitt.
Another relevant point concerns the potential of the virus-based biological market. Schmitt explains: “Today the level of adoption of biological technologies for the control of fall armyworm occupies a level of around 15% of the total market and it is necessary to reach a higher level of adoption, in conjunction with technologies based on chemical pesticides, improving the control mechanism and delivering more performance to the producer. It is estimated that in the near future this market will be able to reach levels of adoption of 50% of the use of biological pesticides based on viruses to control the Spodoptera complex, this will mean a potential market in the order of R$ 800 million, he predicts .
• In terms of adoption in open areas and large crops, Brazil is one of the largest markets when it comes to the application of microorganisms in open areas and large crops. To get an idea of the strength of the biological market, it is predicted that this market will grow, on average, 35% per year until 2025; and 25% by 2030.
• By 2020, according to industry-based research, there was revenue in the order of R$1,179 billion; and, in Brazil today, there are more than 100 companies with registrations of active biological products
(Source: CropLife Brasil)
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