Brasília – The Brazilian government is preparing a national policy of agroecology and organic production, in order to increase the number of families involved in organic production to 300,000 by 2014. Another goal is to encourage consumption of these products by the population. These actions were discussed this Friday (18th) at the event Diálogo Governo e Sociedade Civil (Government and Civil Society Dialogue).
In order to attain the goal, one of the actions meant to increase the number of families in organics production, currently estimated at 200,000, is the implementation of agricultural projects at agrarian reform-oriented settlements.
Other actions should include increasing seed distribution, training to growers and to technical assistance providers. The policy also aims to increase the share of organic products in government purchases from 2% to 15%, also by 2014.
On giving an overview of the policy, the secretary of Extraction and Sustainable Rural Development at the Ministry of Environment, Paulo Cabral, also said the government is willing to provide exclusive lines of credit for organic agriculture, as well as to increase research on the sector to boost the number of registered regulated inputs for organic agriculture.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
