Biological pest control now covers 52% of Brazil's farmland — and the world is watching

At ABIM 2026, the global biocontrol industry's annual meeting in Basel, one country's numbers drew the room: Brazil. Biological crop protection — using living organisms and natural products instead of purely chemical sprays — is now used across 52% of Brazil's monitored cultivated area, up from about 30% just a few years ago, according to Kynetec Brasil data presented by agribusiness strategist Christian Pereira. Two harvests a year (three in some regions) let Brazilian farmers test and refine the tools fast, and registering a biocontrol product takes one to two years there, against up to ten in Europe. The result: the world's tropical-agriculture giant has become the reference point for farming with biology.

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