Two of the main priority agendas of the Parliamentary Agricultural Front (FPA) may advance in the National Congress this week. One of them is Bill 2,951/2024, which deals with the new legal framework for Rural Insurance. The proposal is scheduled for a vote in the Plenary of the Chamber of Deputies, while the group negotiates with the government points considered essential to guarantee the viability of the text. “It is well underway, let's say. […] The text became much more comprehensive in the Chamber. We needed this mainly for it to have faster effectiveness. The issue of the [catastrophe] fund, I think that is the main point and is being well structured in the project. Now, of course, the origin of the resources is the big discussion,” commented the president of the FPA, Deputy Pedro Lupion (Republicanos-PR), after the lunch meeting this Tuesday (26). According to the parliamentarian, two points still need alignment to avoid possible presidential vetoes. The first is to make the expenses of the Rural Insurance Premium Subsidy Program (PSR) non-contingent, guaranteeing greater predictability to the public policy budget. The second point involves the savings generated by the changes made to the Agricultural Activity Guarantee Program (Proagro). A study by the Center for Agribusiness Studies of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV Agro) showed that more than 116,000 producers were removed from the program. However, most of them did not migrate to the PSR, an alternative presented by the government to producers who would no longer be covered by Proagro. “There was a large cut [in Proagro], a huge change in access criteria, lines of credit, and eligibility possibilities. This generated significant savings in Proagro. These savings should have gone to the PSR, and that never happened,” Lupion emphasized. The president of the FPA reinforced that the caucus's intention is not to weaken Proagro, but to ensure that Rural Insurance also has sufficient resources to serve producers. “We don’t want to rob Peter to pay Paul,” he stated. One of the suggestions presented by the Ministry of Planning foresees that the resources of the Rural Insurance Program (PSR) will be limited to the savings generated by the cuts in the Agricultural Insurance Program (Proagro). However, the proposal was rejected by the Parliamentary Front for Agriculture (FPA), which does not consider the model viable. “We sent a counter-proposal and we will see how far we can go to get a vote today,” said Lupion. In addition to Rural Insurance, Complementary Law Project (PLP) 114/2026 may also be voted on this week. According to the president of the parliamentary group, the text is more mature and depends on an agreement between party leaders to move forward. The PLP deals with the use of extra resources obtained from the rise in oil prices, allowing part of this volume to be used to reduce taxes on fuels. The report, led by the vice-president of the FPA for the Midwest, Deputy Marussa Boldrin (Republicanos-GO), should also foresee a competitive advantage for ethanol in relation to fossil fuels. Debt negotiations are underway again. Another proposal considered a priority by the FPA is Bill 5.122/2023, which deals with the renegotiation of rural debts. The matter is being processed in the Senate's Committee on Economic Affairs (CAE) and is still under negotiation with the Ministry of Finance. This Tuesday (26), representatives of the group participated in a new round of talks with the government to try to advance in the construction of a viable text for voting. Initially, the vote was scheduled for last week, but was postponed due to negotiations with the government. One of the possibilities under discussion is the issuance of a provisional measure on the subject. “We are expecting to vote on the bill. We will try until the last minute to get this vote. The provisional measure has the advantage of being more effective more quickly, but we don't know what's coming. From the moment something comes that is not satisfactory for the sector, we are tied up until the establishment of a commission, for negotiation, for voting, all of that. So, we will try to get the bill voted on,” commented Lupion. The negotiations are being conducted by the vice-president of the FPA, Senator Tereza Cristina (PP-MS), together with the rapporteur of the text in the CAE, Senator Renan Calheiros (MDB-AL). Earlier, during a meeting of the commission, Tereza stated that dialogue with the government is necessary to avoid vetoes in the presidential sanction, which could delay the execution of the resources.
Agribusiness Day Review
The president of the FPA also gave an overview of Agro Day — a mobilization carried out last week by the caucus to ensure that projects from the sector were considered in the Plenary of the Chamber of Deputies. According to him, the results were encouraging. “I think we managed to make a very important advance last week. We advanced on relevant issues and managed to take a step further on other, somewhat more controversial, and more difficult matters. I left very satisfied. In all the votes, we managed to secure more than 300 votes. This shows the strength of the FPA and the size we have,” he highlighted. Among the approved projects that went on to be analyzed by the Senate are: Bill (PL) 5.900/2025 – regulates competences regarding environmental decisions such as those concerning invasive species; Complementary Bill (PLP) 262/2019 – gives cooperatives access to development funds; Bill 2.564/2025 – prevents embargoes based on remote sensing; PL 715/2023 – guarantees social benefits for seasonal workers. Urgent procedures were also approved for the following projects: PL 2.827/2025 – deals with rural lease payments; PLP 34/2026 – removes agricultural inputs from tax incentive reductions; PL 2.143/2025 – expands protection of sugarcane cultivars and forest species; PL 3.123/2025 – creates Open Finance for agriculture.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.