Family agriculture sustains 30 million people
Brasilia - The family farm is responsible for supporting the 30 million Brazilians who live in rural occupations. However, there are among them, a low level of education and the average wage is less than the minimum wage. Much (75%) of the number of unpaid workers are women. The finding is the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA), which is based on the National Survey by Household Sampling (PNAD), released on 1st April, chapter on the rural sector. The publication is a description of the state's rural country, to be used for the formatting of public policy in Brazil. According to the survey, 43% of rural population is not remunerated. "The rural population is estimated at 30 million. This corresponds to just over 16% of the population. It is larger than the population of many countries in the world, but for a historic failure of the state, ends up without any kind of employment contract, rights and social guarantees or access to goods and services, "explains the coordinator of area Rural Development IPEA, Brancolina Ferreira. The low quality of education affect significantly the quality of life of rural population and the performance of family farming as a whole, "both in terms of production, access and use of new technologies, such as not giving knowledge about how they claim they need, "says the researcher. Women, according to the researcher, are a large number (75%) of the unpaid workers belonging to the economically active population. "There are over 4 million women and just over 2 million men in this situation," said Brancolina. She said the high concentration of land in Brazil is one of the causes of the problems experienced by the rural population. "The data make clear that the land remains concentrated in the hands of a few, and that the forms of access to it are still provisional and precarious," she said.
Source: Peter Peduzzi, repórter Agência Brasil. Edição: Rivadavia Severo
Google translation, copy-desk: Maurício Galinkin
Brasilia - The family farm is responsible for supporting the 30 million Brazilians who live in rural occupations. However, there are among them, a low level of education and the average wage is less than the minimum wage. Much (75%) of the number of unpaid workers are women. The finding is the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA), which is based on the National Survey by Household Sampling (PNAD), released on 1st April, chapter on the rural sector. The publication is a description of the state's rural country, to be used for the formatting of public policy in Brazil. According to the survey, 43% of rural population is not remunerated. "The rural population is estimated at 30 million. This corresponds to just over 16% of the population. It is larger than the population of many countries in the world, but for a historic failure of the state, ends up without any kind of employment contract, rights and social guarantees or access to goods and services, "explains the coordinator of area Rural Development IPEA, Brancolina Ferreira. The low quality of education affect significantly the quality of life of rural population and the performance of family farming as a whole, "both in terms of production, access and use of new technologies, such as not giving knowledge about how they claim they need, "says the researcher. Women, according to the researcher, are a large number (75%) of the unpaid workers belonging to the economically active population. "There are over 4 million women and just over 2 million men in this situation," said Brancolina. She said the high concentration of land in Brazil is one of the causes of the problems experienced by the rural population. "The data make clear that the land remains concentrated in the hands of a few, and that the forms of access to it are still provisional and precarious," she said.
Source: Peter Peduzzi, repórter Agência Brasil. Edição: Rivadavia Severo
Google translation, copy-desk: Maurício Galinkin
Agriculture must adhere to the proposed Agricultural Development in the new Forest Code
Brasilia - The former Minister of Agriculture, Reinhold Stephanes, said that his portfolio will adhere to the proposal of the Ministry of Agrarian Reform on the changes in the Brazilian Forest Code. For Stephanes, the proposal is the most conciliatory between what they want the ministries of Environment, Agriculture and Agrarian Development.
"The proposal is that in streams of up to 6 meters wide, the margin has 10 meters of forestry. 6 to 8 meters, the margin would be 15 meters and a river over 8 meters, 30 meters from shore would. "
Stephanes Second, if the current law is applied that requires 30 meters of riparian forest regardless of the width of the creek, could experience a "land reform in reverse" because it would remove the small properties on the banks of rivers, forcing its sale to larger farmers. Stephanes said in a short meeting he held with President Luiz Inacio da Silva before leaving office, said he would treat the matter with the Civil House, which holds the information and proposals about the only point on which there is divergence between agriculture and environment What is the footage of riparian forest on the banks of rivers. In the other four items, there would be agreement among the ministries.
The theme should have been treated by the President and Stephanes yesterday but the meeting was canceled.
The minister said the changes in the Forestry Code, which probably will come through a provisional measure, need to be made soon, or risk of occurrence of state initiatives, such as in Santa Catarina, which established an environmental law itself. "Rio Grande do Sul and Mato Grosso do Sul are with their own codes for their approval."
Source: Danilo Macedo, repórter Agência Brasil. Edição: Rivadavia Severo
Google translation, copy-desk: Maurício Galinkin
Brasilia - The former Minister of Agriculture, Reinhold Stephanes, said that his portfolio will adhere to the proposal of the Ministry of Agrarian Reform on the changes in the Brazilian Forest Code. For Stephanes, the proposal is the most conciliatory between what they want the ministries of Environment, Agriculture and Agrarian Development.
"The proposal is that in streams of up to 6 meters wide, the margin has 10 meters of forestry. 6 to 8 meters, the margin would be 15 meters and a river over 8 meters, 30 meters from shore would. "
Stephanes Second, if the current law is applied that requires 30 meters of riparian forest regardless of the width of the creek, could experience a "land reform in reverse" because it would remove the small properties on the banks of rivers, forcing its sale to larger farmers. Stephanes said in a short meeting he held with President Luiz Inacio da Silva before leaving office, said he would treat the matter with the Civil House, which holds the information and proposals about the only point on which there is divergence between agriculture and environment What is the footage of riparian forest on the banks of rivers. In the other four items, there would be agreement among the ministries.
The theme should have been treated by the President and Stephanes yesterday but the meeting was canceled.
The minister said the changes in the Forestry Code, which probably will come through a provisional measure, need to be made soon, or risk of occurrence of state initiatives, such as in Santa Catarina, which established an environmental law itself. "Rio Grande do Sul and Mato Grosso do Sul are with their own codes for their approval."
Source: Danilo Macedo, repórter Agência Brasil. Edição: Rivadavia Severo
Google translation, copy-desk: Maurício Galinkin
In MS, in three years 270 thousand hectares of natural vegetation in the Pantanal have turned coal
The area is equivalent to twice the city of Sao Paulo
Estimate was made by IBAMA, he National Environmental Institute.
For environmentalist, charcoal production in the region serves to fund the opening of more pastures The production of charcoal for the steel industry did away with the last three years about 270 thousand hectares of native forests in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso do Sul, which equals two times the territory of Sao Paulo.
The estimate was made by IBAMA in the State and took into account the demand from local industries in the period and the information about cargo movement contained in the guides of DOF (Source Document Forest).
"The advancement of charcoal on native forests, legally or not, is a serious threat to the survival of the Pantanal," says the superintendent of IBAMA-MS, David Lawrence.
Between 2007 and 2009, according to IBAMA, Mato Grosso do Sul moved 8.6 million cubic meters of charcoal-the bill includes the coal imported from Paraguay. The peak year was 2007, with 4.5 million cubic meters.
In 2009, IBAMA says, there was a significant fall in production: 1.2 million cubic meters. The institute assigns the result to the international crisis and the increase in the audit.
In the period, says Lawrence, the production from planted forests accounted for "practically nothing" about the industry demand. "The production is 99% through firewood from native forests. We have no doubt about it."
Every 80 cubic meters of wood native produce on average 40 cubic meters of coal. Most of this wood comes from the plateau region of Pantanal, says the superintendent.
"Before production was concentrated in the western state. But the gradual breaking down of Cerrado there led to a migration to the upland marsh, where we have 47% of native forests preserved."
For Luiz Benatti, head of environmental protection of IBAMA in the State, industries bunker and steel are now two major "inducing deforestation" of the Cerrado. "The charcoal producers work directly. And the steel industry only want to put more coal into their plants, regardless of the origin and the conditions under which it was produced", he says.
The environmentalist Alcides Faria, executive director of the NGO South Mato Grosso ECOA (Ecology and Action), says that even lowland areas are already targeted by the charcoal industry. "Among the possible impacts are erosion and silting of the rivers," said Faria.
To pasture
According to him, the conversion of native forests into charcoal is now a profitable option for the expansion of areas for livestock. "Many farmers use the cream native of their properties to finance, through the production of coal, the opening of new pastures," he says.
The process follows the same path, says the environmentalist, in the Pantanal region from Bolivia and Paraguay, which today are also major producers of native coal. "There is a marked expansion of these activities throughout the biome."
"Exaggeration" The president of the union of the metallurgical sector in the State, Irineu Milanesi says it considers "excessive" the estimate made by IBAMA. According to him, planted forests "are a reality." "We could not sustain the industry only with charcoal of native origin. This is an exaggeration of IBAMA," said Milanesi.
For Marcos Brito, the union representing the coal industry, the idea that native forests are cleared for charcoal production is a "mistake." "What exists is the use of the material resulting from legally deforested for agriculture."
He said the industry is what generates more jobs in the state and will be self-sustaining in "seven to eight years." "We already have 307 thousand hectares and should reach 500 thousand hectares. This process is now well advanced," says Brito.
Source: Rodrigo Vargas, Agência Folha in Cuiabá
Google translation, copy-desk: Maurício Galinkin
The area is equivalent to twice the city of Sao Paulo
Estimate was made by IBAMA, he National Environmental Institute.
For environmentalist, charcoal production in the region serves to fund the opening of more pastures The production of charcoal for the steel industry did away with the last three years about 270 thousand hectares of native forests in the Pantanal of Mato Grosso do Sul, which equals two times the territory of Sao Paulo.
The estimate was made by IBAMA in the State and took into account the demand from local industries in the period and the information about cargo movement contained in the guides of DOF (Source Document Forest).
"The advancement of charcoal on native forests, legally or not, is a serious threat to the survival of the Pantanal," says the superintendent of IBAMA-MS, David Lawrence.
Between 2007 and 2009, according to IBAMA, Mato Grosso do Sul moved 8.6 million cubic meters of charcoal-the bill includes the coal imported from Paraguay. The peak year was 2007, with 4.5 million cubic meters.
In 2009, IBAMA says, there was a significant fall in production: 1.2 million cubic meters. The institute assigns the result to the international crisis and the increase in the audit.
In the period, says Lawrence, the production from planted forests accounted for "practically nothing" about the industry demand. "The production is 99% through firewood from native forests. We have no doubt about it."
Every 80 cubic meters of wood native produce on average 40 cubic meters of coal. Most of this wood comes from the plateau region of Pantanal, says the superintendent.
"Before production was concentrated in the western state. But the gradual breaking down of Cerrado there led to a migration to the upland marsh, where we have 47% of native forests preserved."
For Luiz Benatti, head of environmental protection of IBAMA in the State, industries bunker and steel are now two major "inducing deforestation" of the Cerrado. "The charcoal producers work directly. And the steel industry only want to put more coal into their plants, regardless of the origin and the conditions under which it was produced", he says.
The environmentalist Alcides Faria, executive director of the NGO South Mato Grosso ECOA (Ecology and Action), says that even lowland areas are already targeted by the charcoal industry. "Among the possible impacts are erosion and silting of the rivers," said Faria.
To pasture
According to him, the conversion of native forests into charcoal is now a profitable option for the expansion of areas for livestock. "Many farmers use the cream native of their properties to finance, through the production of coal, the opening of new pastures," he says.
The process follows the same path, says the environmentalist, in the Pantanal region from Bolivia and Paraguay, which today are also major producers of native coal. "There is a marked expansion of these activities throughout the biome."
"Exaggeration" The president of the union of the metallurgical sector in the State, Irineu Milanesi says it considers "excessive" the estimate made by IBAMA. According to him, planted forests "are a reality." "We could not sustain the industry only with charcoal of native origin. This is an exaggeration of IBAMA," said Milanesi.
For Marcos Brito, the union representing the coal industry, the idea that native forests are cleared for charcoal production is a "mistake." "What exists is the use of the material resulting from legally deforested for agriculture."
He said the industry is what generates more jobs in the state and will be self-sustaining in "seven to eight years." "We already have 307 thousand hectares and should reach 500 thousand hectares. This process is now well advanced," says Brito.
Source: Rodrigo Vargas, Agência Folha in Cuiabá
Google translation, copy-desk: Maurício Galinkin
New agriculture minister defends increase in production with environmental conservation
Brasilia - The new agriculture minister, Wagner Rossi, said that reconciling the increased agricultural production and the need for environmental conservation will continue to be the greatest challenge of his ministry. During the ceremony of transfer of office, he criticized those planning environmental policies without knowing the reality of the field.
"Who knows better how to preserve the farmer is, why are you with the vegetation, with the springs. There are those who, in the distance, albeit with good intentions, they think the world out of their heads. We have to do it with respect, "he said.
Rossi said he will continue the actions taken over by the Minister Reinhold Stephanes and highlighted the struggle of his predecessor for what was considered the biggest concern of the industry: fertilizers, whose project to regulate the operation was handed over to President Luiz Inacio da Silva.
"Despite being one of the most productive, there is a foot that is not working in Brazilian agriculture. We have high dependence on imported fertilizers. We need the support of Petrobras and private companies like Vale, to attain self-sufficiency. Minister Stephanes work very hard to do so and we will continue, "he said.
In supporting the marketing of grain, the new minister said he had a good experience in this field, won over the little over two years when he was president of the National Supply Company (Conab). He said it was unanimity among the experts from the Ministry of Agriculture that some details proposed by the Ministry of Finance in the inter-ministerial "plaster" the whole mechanism of support to producers.
Rossi's replacement as president of Conab not yet been chosen. According to the newly sworn in Minister of Agriculture, President of the Republic instructed him and the Minister of Institutional Relations, Alexandre Padilha, task. "We will, if possible, an internal solution."
Source: Danilo Macedo, repórter Agência Brasil. Edição: Joao Carlos Rodrigues
Google translation, copy-desk: Maurício Galinkin
Brasilia - The new agriculture minister, Wagner Rossi, said that reconciling the increased agricultural production and the need for environmental conservation will continue to be the greatest challenge of his ministry. During the ceremony of transfer of office, he criticized those planning environmental policies without knowing the reality of the field.
"Who knows better how to preserve the farmer is, why are you with the vegetation, with the springs. There are those who, in the distance, albeit with good intentions, they think the world out of their heads. We have to do it with respect, "he said.
Rossi said he will continue the actions taken over by the Minister Reinhold Stephanes and highlighted the struggle of his predecessor for what was considered the biggest concern of the industry: fertilizers, whose project to regulate the operation was handed over to President Luiz Inacio da Silva.
"Despite being one of the most productive, there is a foot that is not working in Brazilian agriculture. We have high dependence on imported fertilizers. We need the support of Petrobras and private companies like Vale, to attain self-sufficiency. Minister Stephanes work very hard to do so and we will continue, "he said.
In supporting the marketing of grain, the new minister said he had a good experience in this field, won over the little over two years when he was president of the National Supply Company (Conab). He said it was unanimity among the experts from the Ministry of Agriculture that some details proposed by the Ministry of Finance in the inter-ministerial "plaster" the whole mechanism of support to producers.
Rossi's replacement as president of Conab not yet been chosen. According to the newly sworn in Minister of Agriculture, President of the Republic instructed him and the Minister of Institutional Relations, Alexandre Padilha, task. "We will, if possible, an internal solution."
Source: Danilo Macedo, repórter Agência Brasil. Edição: Joao Carlos Rodrigues
Google translation, copy-desk: Maurício Galinkin