In a critique of the previous government, Minister questioned lack of deforestation in the Amazon, which causes droughts in agribusiness poles in the Midwest
The Minister of Planning and Budget, said on Monday (31), that food prices are high not only and for climate reasons, but also due to lack of planning in the past, which includes the fiscal imbalance that leads to the depreciation of the exchange rate. “Of course there are climate factors, of course there are certain situations – gathered everything, it’s coffee, it’s egg, it’s meat. Coffee gave Vietnam, and in our crop too. But it’s also because we don’t plan in the past,” Tebet said.
Except for Embrapa -a “success case”, according to the minister -she questioned what was done, “gate out”, in order to reduce food waste in both supermarkets and residences or to increase productivity and recover pasture to production in the countryside. In a critique of the previous government, Tebet also questioned what was done to combat deforestation in the Amazon, which causes droughts in agribusiness poles in the Midwest. “What did we do to, in the last 25 or 30 years, prevent us in relation to climate change?”, He added the minister.
She did not ignore the impact on the exchange on prices caused by uncertainties about public accounts by questioning what was done in the fiscal exchange to avoid such a high exchange. “So this has to do with what we stop doing. We leave it is past, now it’s time to do,” he said.
Tebet participated in the opening of a seminar, promoted by the Ministry of Planning himself, which brings together in the afternoon of Monday experts, public authorities, representatives of civil society, academy and productive sector to discuss a planned planning for the next 25 years. The event takes place in the auditorium of the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (FIESP).
This strategy, according to the minister, has clear cutouts, “for no one to think this is a piece of fiction.” It aims to goals in different deadlines: 2035, 2040 and 2050. Brazil, scored Tebet, needs to face the challenge brought by a growing population. “The problem is not aging, is that we are getting older bad, because we are getting older without enriching. It is different from Europe, which has enriched before, then aged,” he said.
*With information from Estadão Content
Posted by Fernando Dias
