The main issues to be addressed in the new management of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MPLS). This was one of the objectives of the meeting of the Parliamentary Front of Agriculture (FPA), on Tuesday (13), with the presence of 28 parliamentarians, as well as representatives of entities from the national productive sector.
Led by the president of the FPA, Ms. Tereza Cristina (DEM / MS), appointed by the president-elect Jair Bolsonaro as future Minister of Agriculture, the meeting was marked by the debate on the main guidelines for the development and strengthening of Brazilian agriculture in the coming years.
A cross-cutting policy that aligns areas related to agriculture – which are now dispersed in other ministries and government departments – is one of the main changes advocated by the new minister. Fishing, family agriculture, irrigation and planted forests are some of those areas that require a fully integrated management of the map, according to the future minister.
The idea is to study the feasibility of incorporating these sectors in the MPLS. Currently, these structures are linked either to special offices of the Planalto Palace or to other ministries. ‘”As I do in the FPA presidency, my management will be guided by dialogue. We will study the best way to do this in order to improve the work already developed. The transition team is the best scenario to focus on proposals for improvements, “said Tereza Cristina.
Environmental licensing, Kandir law, rural credit, property rights, security in the field, environmental preservation, agriculture and livestock production, infrastructure and logistics, health protection, foreign policy, market opening and new investments are also key issues for the sector Brazilian production and for the country.
“We need to take care of the bottlenecks inside the country and also outside it. External trade relations need attention, because they directly strengthen Brazilian production and our ability to expand, “said the future minister. Regarding environmental licensing, Tereza Cristina stressed the need to reduce the waiting time for the issuance of environmental licenses in the country.
“Uniform procedures are urgently needed and this is only possible with a single national legislation. We can not wait two, three years for a license. The projects are stopped and the investment of the investor goes away and does not stay in the country, does not generate employment or income, “he said. In the case of small farmers, Tereza Cristina said that the focus is to develop production. “It is a sector that needs to be developed very much. We want this segment to produce, have income, improve and grow,” said the new MPLS minister.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.