Brazlian Poultry Industry Calls for Government Help

By CnAgri2012-09-11 19:33:58 Print

The president of the Brazilian Poultry Union, Francisco Turra, is protesting against the decision of the National Monetary Council to extend to February 15 the payment of installments of arrears or bills due between January 1 this year and February 14, 2013, restricted only to non-integrated producers.

As explained by the president of UBABEF, over 90 percent of all producers of the Brazilian poultry sector are integrated to agribusinesses, reports the Poultry Site. The measure, in this sense, has virtually no effect to reduce the serious conditions facing the majority of poultry farmers.

"I can only think there was misunderstanding of CMN in the perception of the poultry sector in which the majority are integrated. The measure would not only get to all producers, as well as agribusiness, responsible for moving the chain. In the most serious crisis in our history, the federal government has been manifested by support measures in dropper without forcefulness, unlike what we see happening in other agricultural sectors not national "protests."

Turra remembers the announcement made by the government in the first half of this year on the Greater Brazil Plan, which originally had a series of measures to support the industry, but without any measure aimed at agribusiness.