Council is recreated to formulate coffee policy and manage Funcafé resources

The Official Gazette of the Union published this Friday (18), decree 10.071 which recreates the Coffee Policy Deliberative Council (CDPC). Among the collegiate's responsibilities are the approval of the harvest plan for the coffee sector and the product export production program, in addition to the authorization of research programs and projects and the evaluation of actions aimed at maintaining the balance between supply and demand for coffee.

The Council had been extinguished in April this year by Decree 9.759/19. For the director of the Department of Commercialization and Supply of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Mapa), Silvio Farnese, the re-creation of the Council will allow the resumption of dialogue between the government and the private sector.

"This dialogue is necessary for the formulation of policies aimed at this production chain and also for the conduct of the Coffee Economy Defense Fund (Funcafé), an important source of financing for the sector, with resources in the order of R$ 6 billion for this harvest", he says. 

Coffee farming involves around 300 producers in 1.758 Brazilian municipalities with around 8,5 million jobs. The CDPC, created in 1996, is made up of representatives of producers, cooperatives, industrialists, exporters and Ministries involved with the production chain.

Farnese recalls that among the challenges that CDPC will have to face are the expansion of specialty coffee exports, to add value to products and serve increasingly demanding markets, in addition to seeking advances in research with the cultivation of species that are more resistant to food shortages. rains.

As advisory to the Council, the Technical Committee was created, composed of representatives of each Ministry and private entities with the objective of discussing the proposals that will be taken to the full CDPC. The Committee will also evaluate the National Coffee Research and Development Program of the Brazilian Coffee Research and Development Consortium, coordinated by Embrapa, financed in part with resources from Funcafé.

The CDPC is chaired by the Minister of Agriculture, Tereza Cristina and composed of two representatives from Mapa, three from the Ministry of Economy and one from Foreign Affairs. Through the private sector, the National Coffee Council (two representatives) has a seat; the Brazilian Agriculture and Livestock Confederation (two representatives), the Brazilian Coffee Industry Association (one representative), the Soluble Coffee Industry (one representative) and the Brazilian Coffee Exporters Council (one representative). The first Council meeting could be held this year.