In order to highlight the importance of allocating more subsidies to organic production, the general coordinator of Agroecology and Sustainable Production of the Special Secretariat for Family Agriculture and Agrarian Development (Sead), Marco Pavarino, said that Pronaf Agroecology as the cheapest rural credit that exists.
[The percentage of] 2.5% is almost negative interest if we compute inflation and it has a period of up to three years of grace [to start paying], “Pavarino told Agência Brasil.
Agronomist and Greenpeace Agriculture and Food Specialist, Marina Lacôrte, stressed the importance of implanting a model of food production that will survive in the long term “urgently”, also advocating that there be fiscal and economic incentives for the agroecological transition to happen in the country.
For Marina Lacôrte, the conventional model – of monoculture and the use of pesticides – will not be sustained. “In addition to a population health problem, we have a problem of food insecurity, because as [the current production model] depletes and degrades the resources it will need up front to produce, that generates this insecurity “He said.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.