CNC: Agro retrieves accumulation of discounts on electricity

On Thursday, April 4, the Federal Government published in the Official Gazette Decree No. 9,744, of 3 April 2019, amending Decree No. 7,891, of 23 January 2013, to provide for the cumulative subsidies to irrigation and activity here culture and rural class for Group B consumers. In summary, the new decree allows the same consumer return to accumulate benefits of subsidy on electricity bill for irrigation and fish with the discount of rural producer, overriding other Decree No. 9,642, of 27 December 2018, which eliminated gradually discounts. The President of the National Council (CNC), Silas Brazilian, considers the measure as a major achievement of the entity, obtained through the work done together and under the Institute Think Agro (IPA) and the Agriculture Parliamentary Front (FPA) . "The new decree comes to meet the priority measures set out by our Board of Directors. If kept, the encumbrance of the electric bill would impact negatively the competitiveness of brazilian coffee, "comments. He explains that the irrigation is a strategic technology for sustainability, quality, competitiveness and growth of the market share of Brazilian coffees, which account for one in three cups consumed in the world. "We serve the growing demand for our coffees with productivity gains, driven by technological packages available, including irrigation, no advance on acreage, so measures coming up with the evolution and the sustainability of our activity must be combated, as occurred in this case the loss of discounts, "he explains. On Thursday, April 4, the Federal Government published in the Official Gazette Decree No. 9,744, of 3 April 2019, amending Decree No. 7,891, of 23 January 2013, to provide for the cumulative subsidies to irrigation and activity here culture and rural class for Group B consumers. In summary, the new decree allows the same consumer return to accumulate benefits of subsidy on electricity bill for irrigation and fish with the discount of rural producer, overriding other Decree No. 9,642, of 27 December 2018, which eliminated gradually discounts. The President of the National Council (CNC), Silas Brazilian, considers the measure as a major achievement of the entity, obtained through the work done together and under the Institute Think Agro (IPA) and the Agriculture Parliamentary Front (FPA) . "The new decree comes to meet the priority measures set out by our Board of Directors. If kept, the encumbrance of the electric bill would impact negatively the competitiveness of brazilian coffee, "comments. He explains that the irrigation is a strategic technology for sustainability, quality, competitiveness and growth of the market share of Brazilian coffees, which account for one in three cups consumed in the world. "We serve the growing demand for our coffees with productivity gains, driven by technological packages available, including irrigation, no advance on acreage, so measures coming up with the evolution and the sustainability of our activity must be combated, as occurred in this case the loss of discounts, "he explains.