The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MPLS), Blairo Maggi, participated in the last Friday (16) of the delivery of land titles in the Park of Exhibitions of the municipality of Nova Ubiratã, Mato Grosso. On this date, the Federal Government simultaneously handed over more than 90 thousand titles of rural and urban land properties in 26 states. Of this total, 2058 titles were delivered in Mato Grosso.
According to Minister Blairo Maggi, the regularization of these lands represents a major advance especially for small farmers who have access to credit lines, among other benefits. “The delivery of these bonds aims to correct a flaw in the National Agrarian Reform Program, once the land was distributed, but the worker did not receive the definitive title of ownership, with limited access to credit,” he said.
By the end of the month, will be released, through Incra, R $ 12 million for the entire country in credits for beneficiaries of rural land regularization. By December, R $ 85 million will be released to those who received the title.
The bodies responsible for the titles are the Ministry of Cities, Incra, the Ministry of Social Development, and SEAD, linked to the Civil House of the Presidency of the Republic. As of this date, these organs will receive the beneficiaries of this action from the Federal Government at their regional headquarters. New titles will be distributed through December of this year.
“We have approximately 86 million hectares of land distributed to a large contingent of Brazilians who did not have a document. When you talk about 86 million hectares of land, for you to have an idea, it’s the size of Mato Grosso. Mato Grosso have 90 million hectares. Here in the state 70% of all settlements had no titration. So this is a very large social action and it costs relatively cheap because the land has already been distributed, “the minister said.
The distribution of land titles to rural lands, rural and urban settlements, invasions, was made possible by the sanction, by President Michel Temer, of a law implementing measures that simplified the regularization of land and housing in the countryside and in the city. “Measures that bring greater legal certainty, well-being and dignity to hundreds of thousands of Brazilian families,” Michel Temer said on July 11, 2017, at the law enforcement ceremony.
The amendments also corrected points raised by the Federal Court of Audit (TCU), which in April 2016 had determined the paralysis of the agrarian reform program throughout Brazil. The agency has audited about 678,430 irregular beneficiaries in a list that includes outdated registries, public servants, deceased persons, signs of enrichment, children under two years of age and foreigners. The irregularities reached approximately 50% of the total of 1.5 million families registered in the program.
As for titles to urban land titles, land regularization actions consider as urban all informal settlements with urban uses and characteristics, even if located in rural areas. The objectives of urban land regularization were also extended, in order to ensure conditions for access to urbanized land and social rights to housing and the city. The regulation of the new legislation was published in the Official Gazette last Friday, in the form of three decrees signed by the President of the Republic.
The decrees regulate the land regularization of the rural areas located in Union lands in the ambit of the Legal Amazon and the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) and the selection of the candidate families to beneficiaries of the National Program of Agrarian Reform (PNRA). verification of the conditions of permanence of the beneficiary families in the Program, the regularization of occupations of the settlement projects, the provisional and definitive titling of the granted plots and the allocation of remaining areas to settlement projects.
The third decree deals with general norms and procedures applicable in the national territory to Urban Land Adjustment (Reurb). It is intended for the incorporation of informal urban nuclei into urban land planning and the titling of its occupants. It is valid for the informal urban centers that are proven to exist, in the form of Law 13,465, of July 11, 2017 and of this Decree, until December 22, 2016.
Access to credit
With the land regularization, the farmer will have responsibilities in relation to the regularized area. According to the new legislation, it will have to register with the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR), maintain the agricultural holding of the property, will not be able to keep workers in slave-like conditions and will not be able to sell the property regularized in the next 10 years.
According to the Chief of Staff of the Presidency of the Republic, Eliseu Padilha, the issuance of land titles in 2017 totaled 26,500, a number “more than 10 times higher to the historical annual average registered between 2003 and 2016, “of 2,600 titles. “This amount was almost four times higher than the best annual mark of 2006, when it delivered 6,800 titles,” he emphasized.