The team of the future Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MPLS), Tereza Cristina, announced on Tuesday (18) changes in the structure of the pulp, with the creation of three new secretaries that begin to absorb units that were sheltered in other areas of the federal government, informs the “Agência Brasil”.
In a note released by the minister’s transition team, the three secretariats will come from the Ministries of Environment and Social Development, the Special Secretariat for Family Agriculture and Rural Development, the Civil House, and the Secretariat of Social Mobility and Cooperativism.
“The Special Secretariat for Land Affairs, the Secretariat of Innovation, Rural Development and Irrigation and the Secretariat of Family Agriculture will be created,” the note said.
In the case of Innovation, Rural Development and Irrigation, the objective will be to articulate projects for the development in the field through Embrapa, state agricultural research companies, federal educational institutions and financial support for research. Sustainable production, low-carbon agriculture and irrigation programs will also be under this umbrella, which did not have the name of the secretary disclosed.
New names
Tereza Cristina also informed that the forest engineer, Fernando Henrique Kohlmann Schwanke, current regional superintendent of the Company of Researches and Mineral Resources in Santa Catarina will assume the Secretariat of Family Agriculture and Cooperativism. The focus will be the search for business alternatives for producers and a new approach to technical assistance and rural extension and reinforcement of cooperativism and rural associativism.
The Secretariat of Aquaculture and Fisheries, which will absorb duties currently in the Ministry of Fisheries, will be headed by the company administrator, Jorge Seif, a rural producer and owner of a fishing terminal and vessels.
The economist and diplomat, Orlando Leite Ribeiro, will take over the Secretariat of Commerce and International Relations, aimed at expanding markets for Brazilian products, by negotiating the end of sanitary and phytosanitary barriers that currently affect Brazil’s commerce.
The Agriculture Policy Secretariat will be in charge of the agronomist, Eduardo Sampaio Marques, who will handle issues related to credit and new funding mechanisms. According to Tereza Cristina, programs to support family farming will be maintained.
Also agronomist engineer, Jose Guilherme Tollstadius Leal, will assume Secretary of Sanitary Defense. Today he is the chief of staff of the Agricultural Defense Secretariat of the Ministry of Agriculture. Tollstadius will have the mission of giving greater normative transparency and strengthening the Unified System of Attention to Agricultural and Livestock Health.
In the Special Secretariat for Land Affairs, entrepreneur Luiz Antônio Nabhan Garcia, a zootechnical technician, will deal with land regularization, including the identification and demarcation of indigenous and quilombola lands, environmental licensing and agrarian reform policies.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.