Agricultural entities in Paraná ask Mapa for actions to minimize losses due to drought

The drought that is punishing crops in the 2021/22 harvest in Paraná requires measures to minimize losses for rural producers. Faced with this scenario, the State government, through vice-governor Darci Piana, the Agriculture Federation of the State of Paraná (FAEP), the Federation of Rural Workers and Family Farmers of the State of Paraná (Fetaep) and the Organization of State Cooperatives of Paraná (Ocepar) prepared and sent, on the 20th, to the Minister of Agriculture, Tereza Cristina, a document with a series of suggested measures to minimize the damage.

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“Our technicians and those of other entities identified that the situation in the field, in large parts of the State, is quite complicated, with losses of up to 70%. These measures requested from the Ministry of Agriculture will bring encouragement to our producers and, more than that, allow them to plan for the winter harvest with a little peace of mind”, says Ágide Meneguette, president of the FAEP/SENAR-PR System. .

The measures involving rural credit, rural insurance and Proagro (check the list below) were prepared based on the itinerary followed by the entities, between the 10th and 14th of January, in different regions of the state. The round allowed a statewide survey of losses caused by the drought. According to estimates from Seab's Department of Rural Economy (Deral), the soybean harvest (the main source of income for agriculture in the first harvest) reduced from 21 million tons to 13 million tons, a financial loss of more than R$30 billion.
In the area of ​​rural credit, entities are asking the Ministry of Agriculture, for example, to create an emergency line of credit for producers who have activated rural insurance and Proagro and also one for farmers who used their own resources. Another request is lines of credit for sugar cane and retention of matrices in livestock farming.

Check the measurements

• Compliance with the Rural Credit Manual for postponing both funding and investment financing, excluding any impact on credit limits;

• Speedy analysis of rural insurance and Proagro applications, with the appointment of more experts who can speed up compensation and allow producers to use their areas to plant the second corn crop – to serve the thousands of poultry producers, pigs, fish and milk- and winter crops;

• Adjustment in the Rural Credit and Proagro Operations System (Sicor) to allow changes to the date set for harvesting financed crops, enabling the contracting of funding for the following harvest;

• Creation of an emergency credit line to finance producers who have activated agricultural insurance and Proagro so that they can sustain themselves until the moment of compensation;

• Creation of an emergency credit line to finance the planting of sugar cane;

• Creation of an emergency credit line for producers who used their own resources for funding so that they can settle debts with the input supply market;

• Creation of a credit line to extend producers' debts to cooperatives;

• Creation of a credit line for retaining sows in beef and dairy farming and swine farming.