Ministry of Agriculture sets release prices for public stocks of rice, corn, wheat, and cassava derivatives.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa) published, in the Official Gazette of the Union this Thursday (21), Ordinance No. 908 which sets the Public Stock Release Prices (PLE) for paddy rice, cassava flour, cassava starch, corn kernels and wheat kernels. Public stocks will be released when market prices are above the Public Stock Release Price (PLE), a reference used for the start and suspension of Federal Government intervention in the market, through the sale of products from public stocks. The prices defined in the ordinance will be used in sales operations carried out by the National Supply Company (Conab), through public auctions in the Electronic Trading System (Siscoe).

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For paddy rice, the decree establishes a price of R$ 78.80 per 50 kg sack for the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, valid until January 31, 2027. For other regions, the price was set at R$ 98.81 per 60 kg sack. Fine processed cassava flour, types 1 and 2, will have a release price of R$ 3.01 per kilogram in the Central-West, Southeast, and South regions, valid until December 31, 2026. For cassava starch, the established price was R$ 3.53 per kilogram, also for the Central-West, Southeast, and South regions, valid until December 31, 2026. The release prices for corn grains were defined regionally. For the states of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, the established price is R$ 69.39 per 60 kg sack. In the Southeast region and Paraná, the price will be R$ 63.82 per 60 kg bag. For the Central-West and North regions, with the exception of the states of Tocantins and Pará, the price is set at R$ 48.43 per 60 kg bag. In western Bahia and the states of Maranhão, Pará, Piauí, and Tocantins, the price was set at R$ 58.04 per 60 kg bag. For all these regions, the values will be valid until December 31, 2026. In the Northeast Region, except for western Bahia and the states of Maranhão and Piauí, the release price for corn was set at R$ 78.37 per 60 kg sack, valid from June 1, 2026 to May 31, 2027. For wheat grains, type 1 bread, the value of R$ 97.01 per 60 kg sack was set for the South Region, valid from July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027. According to the ordinance, the Release Prices for Public Stocks set for corn will not apply to sales of public stock intended for the execution of the Over-the-Counter Sales Program (ProVB), operated by Conab. The regulation also establishes that, when market prices exceed the respective Public Stock Release Price, the sale will depend on prior authorization from the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa) and the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture (MDA), observing the provisions of Mapa Ordinance No. 523, of December 6, 2022, in addition to budgetary and financial availability.

This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.