Brazil: 300+ Generic Formulated Pesticide Registered in 2024
Guest Author: Flavio Hirata, Partner at AllierBrasil, an agronomist from Esalq/USP, MBA, and a specialist in pesticide registration.
14 February 2025, Brazil: Product registration is the key to access pesticide market in Brazil. The year 2024 was a record in number of approvals with 663 total registrations, that is 19.45% more than in 2023.
Another record was formulated products based on equivalency approvals, also called as “generic” formulated pesticides, had 327 new registrations.
Generic Formulated Product Approvals (2024)
The number of registrations approved in 2024 was higher, when compared to 2023, in the categories Equivalent Technical Product (+8.94%), Formulated Product for Organic Agriculture (+54.29%) and Generic Formulated Product (+52.09%).
Approved Registrations (2020-2024)
REGISTRATION CATEGORY | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Technical Product | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New Technical Product | 5 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 3 |
| Equivalent Technical Product | 162 | 182 | 271 | 179 | 195 |
| Pre-Mixture | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Formulated Product | 70 | 60 | 34 | 40 | 19 |
| New Formulated Product | 9 | 12 | 35 | 20 | 12 |
| Formulated Product Based on Equivalency (Generic) | 147 | 207 | 168 | 215 | 327 |
| Low Risk Formulated Product (Bio*) | 57 | 41 | 57 | 55 | 52 |
| Formulated Product for Organic Agriculture (Bio/Org*) | 38 | 51 | 79 | 35 | 54 |
| Total | 493 | 562 | 652 | 555 | 663 |
Notably, the number of approved registrations has increased significantly, especially since 2017, when it reached 400 registration approval’s level for the first time.
Approved Pesticide Registrations in the Past 20 Years (2005-2024)
In regard Generic Formulated Products, since 2008 there has been 1,882 approved registrations, which has allowed for a greater number of companies to access the market.
Generic Formulated Product Approvals (2005-2024)
Despite the large number of registrant companies, only 10 of them were granted with 49.43% of approvals in this product category over the last 15 years. Among these, the registration consulting firm AllierBrasil stands out with 9.1% of total approvals. Considering it is a registration consultancy, the company does not use registration to access the market. After approvals, registrations are generally transferred to the contractors or their agents, such as ADM, CHDS, Dinagro, Hailir, Max (Rudong), Solus, Wynca, among others, which will sell such products directly or through third parties.
1748 Generic Formulated Product Registration Approvals (2010-2024)
Among the approvals of Generic Formulated Products, from 2020 to 2024, the most registered active ingredients were glyphosate, glufosinate, azoxystrobin, chlorothalonil, fipronil, imidacloprid, mancozeb, sulfentrazone, atrazine, 2,4-D.
Generic Formulated Product Approvals by Active Ingredient
| Active Ingredient | Approved Registrations | 2020 – 2024 | |
| 2023 | 2024 | ||
| Glyphosate | 21 | 19 | 59 |
| Glufosinate | 7 | 17 | 52 |
| Azoxystrobin | 8 | 2 | 44 |
| Chlorothalonil | 10 | 14 | 39 |
| Fipronil | 5 | 1 | 35 |
| Imidacloprid | 11 | 16 | 34 |
| Mancozeb | 9 | 8 | 32 |
| Sulfentrazone | 8 | 7 | 31 |
| Atrazine | 1 | 2 | 29 |
| 2,4-D | 8 | 8 | 27 |
Based on the official data, there is a large number of approved registrations of active ingredients with a considerable number of players in the market. This is due to the long time for evaluation and approval. In other words, when the registration is finally approved, the market may be saturated with competitors. There are also the cases where evaluations and registrations are approved in large numbers; however, many of these approvals may be of active ingredients to be banned. In 2021 and 2022, 11 registrations with the active ingredient carbendazim were approved, but the product was banned by Anvisa in August of 2022.
Even with the key to market access in hands, this record of approvals will not result in record in market access. As mentioned, many products or formulations are already obsolete when approved in saturated markets. So, companies rush to submit more registrations for products with higher competitive potential, creating a cycle in which not everyone will succeed.
To be successful, a combination of several elements is necessary, such as the right choices on active ingredient, supplier, people; speed and sense of urgency, etc. For those most eager to access the biggest market in the world, purchasing registrations is becoming a recurring alternative.
From a regulatory standpoint of view, the record of approvals does not reflect the complexity, slowness, high cost and legal uncertainty related to the pesticide registration process. Even so, it is undeniable that current approval levels are much higher than those of previous years.
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