Harvest Guarantee completes payment cycle for farmers who suffered losses in the 2020/2021 harvest

It was published this Monday (19/09), in the Official Gazette of the Union, the SAF/Mapa Ordinance No. 289 which authorizes the payment of the Harvest Guarantee benefit. This month, they will welcome farmers from the municipality of Pilão Arcado, in Bahia. The authorized amount will reach more than R$2,6 million. The ordinance comes into force from the date of its publication.

With the publication, Mapa ends the payment of the Harantia-Harvest benefit to municipalities that had a loss of production in the 2020/2021 harvest. In total, since December 2021, the payment of more than R$577 million has been authorized in 1.037 municipalities in the Northeast and North of Minas Gerais, covering 679.197 family farmers who joined the Harvest Guarantee Fund.

SAF/Mapa will make the full payment of the benefit – referring to the 2020/2021 harvest – of R$ 850, in a single installment, as a result of the measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), as published in Ordinance No. 15, April 14, 2020.

The Garantia-Safra aims to guarantee food security for family farmers who live in regions systematically subject to crop loss, due to drought or floods. Farmers with a monthly income of up to one and a half minimum wages are entitled to receive the benefit, when they have production losses in their municipalities equal to or greater than 50%.

Payments will be made from September 2022, on the same dates defined by the social benefit payment calendar.

Benefit blocked

Farmers adhering to the Garantia-Safra who had the granting of the benefit blocked in the municipalities that had authorization for payment in the month of September/2022 must comply with the guidelines set out in Ordinance No. 25, of July 08, 2020, to regularize the benefit.

If the benefit is blocked, the farmer must access his profile in the Crop Guarantee Management System, by clicking on this link, and check the reason for the block by checking the notification in the profile. The farmer will have up to 30 days, after the publication of the Ordinance authorizing the payment of the benefit, to express his opinion regarding the blocking, through the service “Request Defense Request after Blocking the Harvest Guarantee Benefit”, on the Gov.br platform.

The list of farmers who had the benefit blocked, as a precautionary measure, will be forwarded by the State Coordinations to municipal managers.

Other information about Garantia-Safra can be requested from the Secretariat of Family Agriculture and Cooperatives of Mapa by email at garantiasafra.cgs@agro.gov.br or by telephone (61) 3218-3319.

Click here to check whether the benefit is blocked, in a precautionary manner, according to Ordinance No. 25, of July 08, 2020.  

Click here for more information about paying the Harvest Guarantee Benefit in Digital Savings Account Digital Savings.