Agricultural and Livestock Plan 2017-2018.

The Agricultural and Livestock Plan (PAP) for 2017-2018 incorporates the main measures to support commercialization, rural risk management and credit support, especially the related resources made available and the conditions of their use for these purposes. In addition to these measures, the main challenges are addressed in overcoming the deficiencies of transport and logistics infrastructure as a condition for the sustainable growth of agriculture. In this sense, the main Government actions necessary to ensure the continuity of the progress already achieved in relation to the objective of increasing productivity, sustaining rural producers' incomes and ensuring the production of domestic and international markets under more favorable conditions increase the competitiveness of exports.
The 2017/18 harvest will have several billion dollars to finance rural producers and their cooperatives in their agricultural production and marketing activities. The resources made available for financing financing, marketing and industrialization, although practically of the same magnitude as those of the previous harvest, fully reflect the needs of rural producers and are consistent with the level of official credit participation in their financing. On the other hand, there was a significant increase in the availability of resources for investments, of the order of 12%, with emphasis on the financing of machines and equipment under Moderfrota and for expansion of storage capacity under the PCA and credit lines BNDES Cereals and BNDES Agro, the latter being also intended for agribusiness segments not benefiting from rural credit.
Section 4 deals with coffee production as one of the crops that receive government support in marketing when the market price falls below the official minimum price. The direct purchase instruments - AGF and, price equalization - PEP, PEPRO can be used for the benefit of coffee producers. In addition to these, the Public and Private Option Agreements will be available in view of the need to increase the support of the commercialization to the producer, in case of price crisis.
The risk management policy in the agricultural sector deserves special attention given the vulnerability of farming to disaster risks, especially those arising from adverse climatic phenomena. In this sense, the Federal Government has invested to gradually minimize these risks and managed with greater efficiency. Agricultural zoning is a tool to support risk management based on climate information associated with plant requirements and soil characteristics. The tool uses a methodology recognized by the scientific community and validated by Embrapa.