The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa) published in the Official Gazette of the Union on Friday (13) Ordinance No. 892, which establishes, within the scope of the National Council for Agricultural Policy, the Sectoral Chamber of the Peanut Production Chain. The Chamber will be responsible for carrying out studies related to the peanut production chain, necessary for advising Mapa, in addition to providing information for the preparation of documents indicating priority actions that contribute to the formulation of public policies and to the preparation of the Crop and Multi-Year Plans, in the first quarter of each year. The collegiate body will also be responsible for presenting proposals for improving agricultural activity, considering the expansion of domestic and foreign markets, the generation of jobs, income and well-being, as well as the increase in production, supply and marketing. Furthermore, the Chamber will be responsible for establishing the annual calendar of meetings for the formulation of public policies aimed at the agricultural sector, the Agricultural and Livestock Plan, and the Multi-Year Plan, as well as monitoring and evaluating, together with the competent bodies, the implementation of the proposals emanating from the collegiate body. It will also be responsible for forwarding to the Executive Secretary of the CNPA all actions resulting from resolutions and proposals of the Chamber, which will be coordinated with the competent bodies, entities, and institutions. The Sectoral Chamber of the Peanut Production Chain will be composed of representatives from the following public and private bodies and entities: Association of Peanut Producers, Processors, Exporters and Industrializers of Brazil (Abex-Br); Commercial, Industrial and Agricultural Association of Tupãssi (Aciatu); Brazilian Association of the Chocolate, Peanut and Candy Industry (Abicab); Brazilian Association of the Food Industry (ABIA); The Association of Bean, Pulse, Special Crop and Irrigated Crop Producers of Mato Grosso (Aprofir); the Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA); the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa); the Organization of Brazilian Cooperatives (OCB); the Secretariat of Agriculture and Supply of the State of São Paulo; and the National Union of Family Farming and Solidarity Economy Cooperatives (Unicafes). The Presidency will be held by the full member of Abex-Br, and the Secretariat will be held by the General Coordination of Support to Sectoral and Thematic Chambers of the Secretariat of Agricultural Policy of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Mapa). The Chamber will meet, on an ordinary basis, at least once every twelve months and, on an extraordinary basis, upon convocation by the president.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.