The Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA) submitted to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply a series of proposals for adjustments to the Rural Insurance Triennial Plan 2019/2021, which sets out the guidelines for the use policy of this instrument. management in the next three years.
The objective is to make the coverage of the Rural Insurance Premium (PSR) Grant Program more flexible and extend. “It is fundamental to maintain the objective of the program to promote universal access to rural insurance, which means defining long-term guidelines and the predictability of the rules and budget of the program,” explains the president of the National Commission for Agricultural Policy CNA, Pedro Loyola.
The list of requests includes, among other points, the endorsement of the PSR Private Consultative Commission prior to the publication of the Triennial Plan, a budget forecast of R $ 1.2 billion and an increase in the minimum coverage of the agricultural insurance from 60% to 65% and higher levels of subsidy for crops with higher risk of production, such as maize, wheat and fruits.
In an official letter to the Secretary of Agricultural Policy for the MPLS, Wilson Vaz, CNA also calls for greater support in the program for rural insurance products that use productivity data from the producer himself instead of data on average productivity of the municipality and maintenance of the format of the current PSR grant award table.
The entity also proposes to maintain only a subsidy above 65%, review the annual distribution of grant resources for second crop corn and wheat and to meet the peculiarities of the states.
Finally, the CNA proposes, by 2019, the forecast of an Experimental Private Supplementation Project for soybean and corn crops, but with adjustments in relation to the project that was launched by the MPLS that year.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.