LatinNews Daily - 29 August 2018

* Brazil’s agriculture minister, Blairo Maggi, has said that the country’s soya and maize crops could be threatened by a judge’s recent decision to suspend the use of glyphosate, a herbicide. Speaking after an event organised by São Paulo state’s federation of industries (Fiesp), Maggi said that 95% of Brazil’s soya and maize crops are grown by direct seeding, which depends on the use of glyphosate, and that production will be hard to guarantee without the herbicide as the country does not have a substitute to use in the upcoming planting season. Federal judge Luciana Raquel Tolentina de Moura suspended the use of the agrochemical earlier this month, pending the re-evaluation of its toxicity by Brazil’s national sanitary agency (Anvisa). The federal chief attorney (AGU) has already appealed the ruling.

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