Decree No. 42.307 providing for the Registry of Rural Producer, defining the concept of rural producer, and the limits of its scope.

This Decree provides for the Registry of Rural Producer, established by Decree No. 39.311 of 19 July 2019, defines the concept of rural producer, and the limits of its scope. A rural producer is considered to be an individual or legal entity that carries out the following activities: agriculture; livestock; plant and animal extraction and exploitation; exploration of zootechnical activities, such as: beekeeping, poultry farming, rabbit farming, pig farming, sericulture, fish farming and other animal cultures; transformation of products resulting from rural activity without altering the composition and characteristics of the “in natura” product, which will be carried out by the farmer or breeder himself with equipment and utensils usually used in rural activities, using exclusively raw material produced in the area explored rural; cultivation of forests intended for cutting for commercialization, consumption or industrialization; and sale of income herds, breeders or matrices.