CNA delivers Safra Plan proposals to parliamentarians

The president of the CNA, João Martins, delivered, on Wednesday (10/05), the document with the entity's proposals for the Agricultural and Livestock Plan (PAP) 2023/2024 to the president of the Parliamentary Front for Agriculture (FPA), Pedro Lupion (PP/PR), the president of the Chamber's Agriculture Committee, Tião Medeiros (PP/PR), deputy Sérgio Souza (MDB/PR), senators Jayme Campos (União Brasil/MT) and Tereza Cristina (PP/MS ), and to the chief of staff of senator Zequinha Marinho (PL/PA), Alexandre Bodoni.

The material brings 10 points considered priorities for the next Harvest Plan, focused on increasing and guaranteeing resources, reducing and equalizing interest, increasing the income limit for inclusion in credit lines, greater volume for insurance subsidies and priority for investments mainly for small and medium producers, among others.

The document was created together with agriculture and livestock federations, rural unions, producers and sectoral entities, in meetings held with representatives of the country's five regions. At the end of last month, Martins delivered the proposals to the Minister of Agriculture, Carlos Fávaro .

The meeting was attended by the vice-presidents of CNA, José Mário Schreiner and Muni Lourenço, the president of Famasul, Marcelo Bertoni, the general director of Senar, Daniel Carrara, the technical director of CNA, Bruno Lucchi, the legal director, Rudy Ferraz , the head of the Institutional Relations Office, Nilson Leitão, and the executive secretary of the CNA Institute, Mônika Bergamaschi.

See the main points:

1 . Ensure that the resources announced in the Agricultural and Livestock Plan are available throughout the entire harvest, without interruptions and in a predictable manner for producers;

two . Make R$2 billion available to the budget for subsidy to Rural Credit Operations of the Agricultural and Livestock Plan 25/2023, in the form of equalization of interest rates on financing;

3. Guarantee a reduction in Interest Rates for Rural Credit operations, providing values ​​consistent with agricultural activity;

4. Guarantee a budget of R$2,0 billion for subsidy for rural insurance premiums in 2023 and R$3,0 billion for 2024;

5. Increase the Gross Agricultural Income limit for producers to qualify for rural credit programs (Pronaf, Pronamp and Others);

6 . Prioritize resources for investment purposes, especially for small and medium-sized producers (Pronaf and Pronamp), and for programs for the construction of warehouses (PCA), irrigation (Proirriga), investments necessary for the incorporation of technological innovations in rural properties (Inovagro) and the ABC+ Program;

7 . Enable the use of part of the demand for demand deposit resources as a subsidy to the Agro-Industrial Chains Investment Funds (Fiagros);

8. Increase funding limit for all frameworks. The rise in production costs meant that current credit limits did not meet producers' needs, forcing them to take out credit from more expensive sources to meet demand;

9. Regulate Complementary Law 137/2010 that created the Catastrophe Fund;

10. Promote public or private lines of credit to promote regenerative agriculture.