Brasília – The 2009-2010 crop will count on 93 billion reals (US$ 45.9 billion) in financing, of which approximately 15 billion reals (US$ 7.4 billion) are earmarked for family farming. The information was supplied by the Brazilian minister of Agriculture, Reinhold Stephanes, while leaving a meeting with the minister of Finance, Guido Mantega, during which the crop plan figures were discussed.
“We will have a significant increase over last year’s,” said the minister, who recalled that the sector received 78 billion reals (US$ 38.4 billion) for the 2008-2009 crop.
Stephanes stated that the 2009-2010 crop plan should be announced in the first or second week of June.
“We have already got nearly all of the data we need for the crop plan. Probably, by the end of this week, we will have analysed all of the items that we need to analyse.”
*Tradução de Gabriel Pomerancblum
