“It does not have a professional category in Brazil that preserves more the environment than the rural producer,” assured the agronomist and researcher Evaristo de Miranda, coordinator of the Strategic Territorial Intelligence Group of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), during a lecture in an event this Friday (24), in Curitiba (PR), informs the “Agência Brasil”.
In his presentation, the researcher presented graphs and databases fed by Embrapa, which indicate that a quarter of the Brazilian territory is preserved by farmers. “What category of Brazil do you dedicate your personal, private assets and mobilizes R $ 3 trillion for the environment? It is an unpaid savings that still generates a cost to be maintained and, if caught fire, it is your fault, if you steal wood you are responsible. “
Miranda said that, in addition to the protected areas – more than 1.8 thousand conservation units and other indigenous areas – and vacant lands, the total territory preserved in Brazil exceeds 66% of the total. “And the crop occupies 7.8%. That portion for all the production of sugarcane, soy, corn, “he said. According to him, the areas of pasture also has been decreasing, as well as the volume of herd.
Only protected areas, according to the researcher, represent 30% of the national territory, while European countries and the United States, among others, preserve 10%. “Being accused of not protecting their forests is absurd,” he criticized. For him, international pressures on this issue are based on interests of producers from other economies who try to protect themselves from the potential of Brazilian territory.
Forests
The environmental issue was also discussed as a counterpoint to forest-based agribusiness. Also from Embrapa, the researcher Erich Gomes Schaitza said that the sector needs to seek “a way of managing the forest generate money.” In addition to the maintenance of the current forests, the forestry engineer defended the adoption of a reforestation within an intelligent model, that manages resources for the producer.
“We are entering an era of green products. The world speaks of green economy in the change of a paradigm of production, that replaces oil by natural resources, “he recalled. For him, the first point of adding value to the forest industry is in bioenergy. Schaitza cited examples such as Ambev’s, which bought more than 1.2 thousand electric trucks, and Norway, which has pledged to ban combustion cars by 2025, paralleling the vehicles, equipment and machinery used in the field.
“The question is settled. Let’s start getting into a process of turning oil-based mobility by biogas mobility. We need to think about merging the forms of energy available to agriculture to have a sustainable property structure. We have great opportunity for the agricultural sector to think energies differently, “he said.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.