This Thursday, the Minister of Agriculture, Blairo Maggi, and Chile’s Agriculture Minister Antonio Walker Prieto signed an agreement aimed at promote actions to facilitate trade in organic products between the two countries.
The memorandum provides for mutual collaboration in the control and control of products and policies aimed at the development of organic production, in addition to improving databases and standards and regulations governing the activity.
The MAPA reported that this is the first mutual recognition of similarities in organic production regulations negotiated between South American countries.
“The social impacts of signing are relevant for both countries. Currently, only large organic producers reach overseas markets because of the high cost involved in international certification. With the mutual recognition system, both laws recognize the certification of participatory guarantee schemes, encouraging the inclusion of small and medium-sized producers in the export market, “the statement said. secretary of International Relations of Agribusiness of the ministry, Odilson Ribeiro e Silva.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.