There has been an increased use of fungicides and herbicides, produced with improved technologies, for the purpose of increasing productivity and environmental protection.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
A statement from the Trade Office of Costa Rica reads:
Guatemala is beginning to take the first steps towards implementing new technologies in agrochemicals for crops, with a focus on environmental care and higher yields.
The president of the Guild of the Agricultural Chemical Association (Agrequima), Julio Reyna said at the Fourth National Agricultural Congress, that new technologies in the development of agricultural materials and their application are designed to improve yields and crop areas while caring for environment.
"These are technologies that are already in Guatemala and are being used by companies. We believe that the trend in fungicides, herbicides, and other products is already going in this direction", he said.
Reyna said that regionally Costa Rica is the country that leads the development in the application of these technologies and that every country in the region is doing the same to apply new chemical formulas.
Agrochemicals are products used to control pests, weeds, insects and other diseases that affect crops.
According to industry estimates, in 2011 Guatemala imported chemicals worth $160 million and this year an increase is expected of 6%, to close at $170 million.
Source: América Económica; Date: 20-Apr-2012
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The agricultural chemical union of Guatemala states that the illicit commercialization of fertilizers, insecticides and fungicides, represents about 12% of the local market.
According to reports from the Association of the Agricultural Chemical Guild (Agrequima), between August 2016 and the same month in 2018, a investigation of agrochemical packaging was carried out in the union's collection centers, in which several products were identified which did not possess the minimum quality requirements.
A reduction in crop yields due to the lack of rain is affecting the marketing of these products, in cases such as herbicides, there has been a 40% drop in sales.
Less demand for fertilizers, herbicides and other agrochemicals needed to tend crops is causing an increase in inventories kept by marketers and generating greater downward pressure on the price of such products.
In Guatemala, farmers expect an increase of $10 million in imports of chemicals for the agricultural season 2012, which is an increase of 6%.
The expansion of areas under cultivation, particularly for export, and a forecast of a good winter will push demand for agrochemicals (herbicides, pesticides, fungicides and insecticides) up by an additional 6%.
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