Secretariat of Family Agriculture receives claims from the FPA for the Safra Plan

Mapa's Secretary of Family Agriculture and Cooperatives, Fernando Schwanke, received this Tuesday (19) a document with demands from the FPA (Parliamentary Agricultural Front) for the 2019/2020 Harvest Plan. Among the demands, the maintenance of tobacco cultivation in the Rural Credit financeable lines, investments in the dairy livestock sector for the modernization of equipment and facilities, an increase from R$ 31 billion to R$ 32 billion in the amount allocated to Pronaf (National Program for Strengthening Family Farming), increasing the ceiling for investment financing from R$165 thousand to R$300 thousand, in addition to reducing bureaucracy and making the flow more flexible for contracting land credit.

Fernando Schwanke received the agenda from the president of the collegiate, deputy Alceu Moreira, and highlighted that the demands will be added to the proposals that the Secretariat will present to the Safra Plan. “We continue in the phase of listening to the demands presented by civil society, professionals in the field and parliamentarians, to prepare a complete document that will be delivered to Minister Tereza Cristina and the Secretariat of Agricultural Policy, the body responsible for centralizing the debate. We are open to receiving suggestions that enable the construction of a plan that is closer to reality and within the needs of the sector”.

In a debate with the members of the board, the secretary took the opportunity to highlight that he will work on specific actions for medium producers. “Small and large companies had incentive policies, but the medium-sized rural producer remained on the sidelines and this meant that he is now the one that produces the least in the country. The gross value of Brazilian agricultural production could grow by 12% to 18%, which means R$35 billion to R$60 billion per year, if we put this producer back into competitiveness”, said Schwanke.

For deputy Alceu Moreira, the Safra Plan is a fundamental Government instrument for the support and development of family farmers, who need support for credit, land regularization, in addition to legal guarantees, crop security and other mechanisms that ensure the producer income. To prepare the material, the FPA consulted the National Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock (CNA) and entities in the agricultural sector.

Last month, the Family Agriculture Secretariat also received demands from the National Confederation of Rural Workers, Farmers and Family Farms (Contag) and the Federation of Agricultural Workers of Rio Grande do Sul (Fetag).

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