Communication with society, with markets, with the environmental community and with possible importers of agricultural and livestock products in Brazil will be the main challenge of the future management of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MPLS). The evaluation is responsible for the portfolio as of January 1, Tereza Cristina, informs the “Agência Brasil”.
The future minister, who is a federal deputy (DEM-MS) and presides over the Parliamentary Agriculture Front (FPA), emphasized the importance of communication during the solemnity of the CNA Agro Brasil Award, granted by the Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil ). The event took place last night (04), in Brasília (DF). Tereza Cristina was one of the winners.
According to the future minister, “communication will be a very important thing for us to open the eyes of the world, and show that Brazil conserves, that the country produces with quality, and that its production is sustainable. Anyway, we have here in agriculture a huge number of jobs of good quality and that every day the country will move forward. “
For Tereza Cristina, the misinformation affects the vision about the activities in the field. This is the case, for example, of the common use of the word pesticide instead of agricultural pesticides. “In this case agrochemicals, agricultural pesticides or pesticides are synonymous. Everything is plant remedy, but there is a prejudice and ignorance of people, which is why communication is very important.
“We have to prepare the Brazilian society to understand more and more what the producer does, which is for cheap food. Agrotoxic is medicine. Used in the right dose cure, used in the wrong dose kills, “he pointed out. “Communication will be instrumental in explaining the moment of transition. We are going through a moment that Brazil is going to take a turn, including in the environment, with responsibility, but without bias, “he promised.
Tereza Cristina praised the conduct of the MPLS by current Minister Blairo Maggi and said she intends to “continue to do the work that other ministers have done: market opening for our sector.” “No one will invent the wheel. What we need is to make agriculture continue to grow and to be respected in the world as a leading crop, “he added.
For Maggi, Tereza Cristina will have the biggest challenge to manage the MPLS with more attributions than it has today. “This ministry is practically doubled in size, with antagonistic functions and people who think differently.” In addition to the current areas, the MPLS will once again take care of the Secretariat of Fisheries and the Secretariat of Family Agriculture.
In the third quarter of this year, agriculture and livestock activities were the ones with the highest economic growth, up 0.7% compared to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the second quarter, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics ( IBGE). The employed population in the sector grew 1.78% in the period. In 2017, the area occupied by agriculture and livestock throughout Brazil reached 350 million hectares.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.