In a meeting with the Parliamentary Front of Agriculture (FPA) on Tuesday (12), the chief of the Embrapa Environment, Marcelo Morandi, and researchers of the institution defended the substitute text to the bill 3200/2015 that intends to modernize the current law on agricultural pesticides in the country. For Morandi, access to more efficient and safer products that are waiting for registration approval for about six, eight years in Brazil is necessary.
Morandi explained that organic, organic and conventional farming are not antagonistic but complementary. “Each serves a specific interest, all of which are part of a set that provides food and products to the population.” The use of pesticides is one of the forms of management used in large-scale planting. ” “Today, new molecules are safer for both the farmer and the consumers. The products have evolved greatly and neither the registration system nor the rules of current legislation have followed this evolution, “said the Embrapa representative.
For him, the products have their risks applied, as well as plastic, fuel and medicines. Therefore, according to him, the assessment made by the registrants (Anvisa, Ibama and MPLSa) is so necessary. “The assessment has also been modernized. Today, there are more efficient risk assessment criteria in addition to hazard assessment. Registration needs to be efficient and ensure safety for human health, the environment, the farmer and the plants and food. “
The president of the FPA, Ms. Tereza Cristina (DEM-MS), stressed the need to reverberate to society scientific concepts to give the correct foundation to the population, which suffers with misinformation on this topic. Marcelo Morandi also highlighted the lack of information and instruction of farmers regarding the use of products. “We need to ensure safety not only for the consumer, but for the farmer, with correct handling and dosage forms. There is a shortage of information and guidance. “
Also present at the occasion, the Embrapa Environment researcher, Robson Barizon, pointed out that there is a resistance of society increasingly urbanized to understand the complexity of agriculture and the countryside. “They call for sustainable agriculture, but they do not know what it is for the most part. The field uses complex mechanisms to achieve ever better and more efficient productions, “he said.
The rapporteur of the special committee on agricultural pesticides, MP Luiz Nishimori (PR-PR), reiterated the relevance of Embrapa’s technical-scientific support for the process of improving current legislation. “The proposal puts Brazil on a more technological level with more computerized and integrated registration systems, preserving the competence of each agency involved in the process.”
Against the minimum freight
Ms. Tereza Cristina (DEM-MS) met with several segments of the productive sector to try to reach a consensus proposal regarding freight tariffs. “There are many variables. We know that the minimum freight is a shot in the foot, but we can not close the dialogue “, says the deputy. During the meeting, the director of Institutional Relations of the Brazilian Association of Animal Protein (ABPA), Ariel Mendes, spoke about the impacts to the sector of poultry and swine with the changes proposed in the policy of minimum freight. According to him, the sector can not establish minimum prices in freights, since these are diverse, with variables ranging from the type of truck and contract to the distances traveled.
“For each transport, it is necessary to follow specific rules that guarantee the health of products and animal welfare. For eggs and chicks, it’s a type of truck, contract and route. For piglets, it’s another, “said Mendes. For FPA’s vice president, Deputy Alceu Moreira (MDB-RS), the solution must be in line with all sectors involved, as well as with the autonomous truck drivers, companies and carriers.
According to the data presented by ABPA, with the tabulation, the price of maize sack from Mato Grosso to feed the animals of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul will be R $ 6 more expensive. According to the deputy chairman of the FPA in the South, Deputy Sérgio Souza (MDB-PR), this can create a serious crisis in the sector. “It is worth importing the product of the United States and Argentina rather than bringing it from Mato Grosso. To tabulate freight is to interfere in private relations, “he said.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.