The Council of Ministers published on Monday an updated and consolidated version of the regarding the production, development, and use of biofertilizers, biostimulants, and biopesticides for agricultural use in Cuba.
The regulation, which appeared in the , dated September 28, 2026, and spanning pages two to nine of that edition, aims to regulate matters ranging from research and development to the registration, production, marketing, and comprehensive use of bioproducts, as well as impact assessment, training, and the regime of infringements.
Establishes that the Ministry of Agriculture is the governing body of the entire cycle: it researches, registers, produces, and oversees the marketing of these products.
Within the ministry, the Department of Soils and Fertilizers will maintain the register of biofertilizers and biostimulants, while the Plant Health Department manages the registration of biopesticides and requires prior permission —along with that of the Ministry of Public Health— to authorize their use.
The production of bioproducts is organized at two levels: the national level, which includes industrial plants and entities focused on Science and Technological Innovation, and the territorial or local level, comprising small plants, centers for the Reproduction of Entomophagous and Entomopathogenic organisms, provincial laboratories, and universities.
The Plant Health Research Institute is responsible for maintaining the mother strains and juvenile stocks of beneficial arthropods, which it distributes to provincial laboratories and to Grupo Empresarial LABIOFAM according to the agreed demand.
The research priorities in bioproducts are defined annually based on the science and technological innovation programs established by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment.
It also stipulates that those wishing to introduce or market bioproducts on the island—whether individuals or legal entities—must submit the required documentation for their registration in the relevant records.
Violations of Decree-Law 64 and its regulations may result in fines ranging from 2,000 to 10,000 pesos.
This special edition is part of a recent trend of reviewing the agricultural regulatory framework: just four days earlier, the Council of Ministers had also published an updated version of Decree 52 on conservation and sustainable management of soils, in the Official Gazette No. 18 Special Edition of 2026.
The publication responds to the mandate of the Final Provision Second of the and published in the Ordinary Gazette No. 75 on September 9, 2026, which ordered the update, review, and alignment of the text of Decree 76 with the modifications introduced by that decree.
Decree 76 was originally issued on December 5, 2022, as a regulation of Decree-Law 64, approved on September 19 of the same year, and was published for the first time in the Ordinary Gazette No. 53 on July 15, 2023
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