The Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA) requested adjustments to the Agricultural and Livestock Plan 2018/2019 for the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MPLS). The subject was treated this Wednesday (15) in a meeting with the Secretary of Agricultural Policy of the MPLS, Wilson Vaz de Araújo.
The main demands presented were the return of technical assistance as a creditable item of credit with controlled resources, the extension of the term for financing sugarcane (which currently does not meet the period in which the producer has income), the inclusion of warehouses used in the line of the Program for Construction and Expansion of Warehouses (PCA) and the definition of a ceiling for the post-fixed interest rate.
“They are demands brought by rural producers to see what is still feasible to adjust in the next meetings of the National Monetary Council, so as to make the Plan even more appropriate to what they expect,” said the technical advisor of the National Commission for Agricultural Policy of the CNA , Fernanda Schwantes.
Another issue addressed at the meeting was the lines that allow the renegotiation of debts of rural producers, announced by the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) and Banco do Brasil last week. According to Fernanda, there are doubts regarding debts that fall into these lines or not. The president-in-office of the National Commission for Agricultural Policy of the CNA, Pedro Loyola, also attended the meeting.
“We want to clarify these issues better so that the producer becomes compliant again with the financial institutions and this does not prejudice the contracting of credit for the next harvests,” said the technical advisor of the CNA. The Agricultural Policy Secretary of the MPLS, Wilson Vaz de Araújo, stressed that the Agricultural and Livestock Plan is already in its second month of execution, but it is still possible to adjust some points.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.