The agricultural machinery and implements sector wants 11% more resources in the new Plan Safra, for the 2018/19 cycle, for the lines of financing Moderfrota and Moderinfra. This was highlighted by the president of the Chamber of Machinery and Agricultural Implements (CSMIA), the Brazilian Association of Machinery and Equipment Industry (Abimaq), Pedro Estevão Bastos, on Wednesday (28), in São Paulo (SP), during the presentation press conference of Agrishow 2018.
Moderfrota is intended for financing lines for the acquisition of agricultural machinery and implements, and Moderinfra is dedicated to resources for the implementation of storage projects.
According to Estevão, another claim of the sector is that the interest rates of the new Plan Safra be kept as fixed, and “not variable as has been ventilated.” According to the manager, the machine industry needs predictability and variable interest can significantly affect the market’s offer and the willingness of the producer to buy. With the fall of the Selic rate, the expectation is that the interest rates of the Safra 2018/19 Plan will also be reduced.
In the evaluation of the president of Agrishow, Francisco Matturro, the agricultural machinery market “changed the curve” in the upward direction. In addition, according to the leader, this year’s Agrishow should act as a magnet for the candidates. “We are in the election year,” he said.