The new minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MPLS), Tereza Cristina Corrêa da Costa Dias, announced last Tuesday (28) that it will be the priority of the new government to carry projects for the Northeast that contribute to the generation of income and citizenship for the population. “And it has no better institution than Embrapa to help us think about technologies and projects that could contribute to the challenge posed by the new President of the Republic to our portfolio,” said Tereza Cristina during her visit to the Embrapa managers meeting.
The future minister, who is currently president of the Parliamentary Front of Agriculture (FPA), took advantage of the presence of the chiefs of the 42 Decentralized Units of Embrapa, in Brasília, to say that it will count on the researchers to develop projects and actions that bring benefits to the whole Brazilian society, especially for agriculture and livestock.
Still with regard to the Northeast, he said that Embrapa can help a lot “so that people have income and dignity. I know there’s a cost, but we’re going to start with simpler solutions instead of big projects, and that’s why I really need your heads, “he said.
“We want new ideas. We can no longer admit the existence of one producing country and one that does not produce. We have to have a Brazil that produces, even with difficulties, but that produces, “stressed Teresa Cristina, still referring to the challenge of proposing solutions and projects for the Northeast region.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.