At the same time we have been careful to apply the requests and suggestions that we receive.Modern chemical crop protection products have unique modes of action, are based on the latest advances in science, and are designed to target noxious pests and weeds with minimal or no adverse effects to human health or non-target species. Through new varieties and chemical crop protections products, yield of rice have more than doubled since 1961 (FAO). SAPY will enhance its product portfolio by promoting the introduction and development of new crop protection products being developed by Japanese crop protection companies , and will provide customers with quality services by utilizing the SASA’s business knowledge of crop protection for soybeans.
UK crop protection product distributor Interfarm (UK) Ltd. Our mission is to supply the Italian agricultural market with solutions for crop protection, combining products invented by Sumitomo Chemical with other products we distribute. Product labels must specify in detail the amounts, methods and timing of any applications, and the precautions that must be observed in their usage. In 2015 Sumitomo Corporation founded SASA, an crop protection regional headquarters company for South America, subsequently putting in place a five-country (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru) crop protection sales network and pursuing integrated regional operations. Our crop protection solutions are dedicated to maximizing crop health and play a key role in preventing damage from pests and weeds. SAPY’s establishment will reinforce SASA’s business foundations and help further improve agricultural productivity in South America.Paraguay is South America’s third largest soybean producer after Brazil and Argentina (and the world’s sixth largest), and the crop protection market is expected to continue growing as cultivated area and the use of specialty crop protection products (herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides) increase. Sumitomo Corporation is also working to expand its business scope and earnings by, for instance, acquiring agricultural material retailers in Brazil, Romania and Ukraine.■ Reference 1: Structure of the SASA Group The aim is to expand sales to US$25 million over the next five years.Sumitomo Corporation’s crop protection business got its start in crop protection export trading activities with Japanese manufacturers in the 1970s, and it has helped improve the productivity and efficiency of agriculture in numerous countries. Sumitomo Chemical India Ltd. manufactures, imports and markets products for Crop Protection, Environmental Health, Professional Pest control and Feed Additives for use in India Global crop protection chemicals sales have marginally recovered in 2017 after a consecutive fall in 2015 and 2016. Our work will not be limited to chemical crop protection products and will also work on the development of Integrated Pest Management, such as biological crop protection products and other crop protection solutions derived from natural material as we meet the challenge to eliminate pests and weeds in new ways.