21 September 2026, Asunción, Paraguay: Fertiliser producer Mosaic Company has launched PowerCoat, its first proprietary biologicals product in Latin America, in Paraguay, while an equivalent rollout in neighboring Brazil, the region’s largest agricultural market, remains stalled pending a government decree, the company said on September 16.
PowerCoat combines Bacillus microorganisms with mineral fertiliser, effectively coating conventional fertiliser granules with a biological component intended to improve nutrient uptake and plant health. The product has already cleared registration for sale in Paraguay. In field trials on tropical soils, Mosaic reported yield gains of 3.5 bags per hectare in soybeans and 8 bags per hectare in corn, using the region’s standard 60-kilogram bag measure, gains the company is using to build the commercial case for the product ahead of a fuller Brazilian launch.
That Brazilian launch cannot proceed yet, even though field trials are already underway there. Brazil passed a general law establishing a regulatory framework for biological agricultural inputs, known as bioinputs, roughly two years ago, but the implementing decree needed to put the law into practice remains with Vice President Geraldo Alckmin’s office. Mosaic said the decree should be published in the coming weeks, a timeline the company is treating as a near-term catalyst rather than a settled fact.
Eduardo Monteiro, Mosaic’s country manager for Brazil and Paraguay, said the company expects its bionutrition revenue in Brazil to more than triple this year even without PowerCoat’s full introduction, and that it has 10 to 12 additional biological products in its pipeline for future launches once the regulatory path is clearer. Felipe Pecci, the company’s commercial vice president for the region, is also involved in the rollout.
A regulatory gap shaping where biologicals launch first
The Paraguay-first approach illustrates a pattern increasingly visible across the biologicals sector: companies are launching in smaller, faster-moving regulatory markets while waiting for larger economies with more complex approval systems to catch up. Brazil’s bioinputs law was designed to speed up registration for products like microbial biofertilisers and biopesticides, which have historically faced approval timelines built around conventional chemical pesticides rather than living organisms. Until the implementing decree is published, companies with products ready for market are left waiting even after clearing scientific review, a bottleneck that has frustrated multiple biologicals suppliers operating in Brazil.
Global demand for biological crop inputs has been growing steadily as farmers look for ways to reduce synthetic fertiliser and pesticide costs and meet buyer sustainability requirements, and major agribusiness players including Bayer, BASF, Corteva, and FMC have all expanded biologicals investment in recent years. Mosaic’s move into proprietary biologicals, rather than simply distributing third-party products, signals that traditional fertiliser majors see the category as core to their future product mix rather than a side business.
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