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4.1. (...) Agricultural zoning requirements continue to link agricultural support to environmental sustainability.

4.2. (...) Domestic support for developing mining companies and sustainable technologies was made available to selected firms. (...)

4.3. (...) The Brazilian energy matrix continued to be one of the greenest in the world, and solar energy capacity increased by 70% from 2020 to 2021, reaching 13 GW in installed capacity. (...) Brazil started implementing its National Biofuels Policy (RenovaBio). (...)

4.15. (...) In addition to its three main components, i.e. market price policy, rural credit, and crop insurance subsidies (Section 4.1.4), which, inter alia, support commercial agriculture and small scale family agriculture, other important policy measures include promoting sustainable agriculture, livestock, fisheries, and aquaculture (...)

4.16. The Agricultural and Livestock Plan 2021-22 (Plano Safra) continues to be administered by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA). The Plan has been adjusted to meet the objectives and criteria of the broader Pluriannual Planning (PPA) 2020-23 under four main pillars: sustainability, family farming, investments, and agricultural insurance. Accordingly, the Agricultural and Livestock Plan 2021-22 aims at promoting agricultural development on a sustainable basis, as it encourages technological modernization and the application of best agricultural practices in the field following the Brazilian environmental legislation. Aligned with those goals, the Plan promotes the financing for the production of bio inputs, use of renewable energy, and the adoption of environmental conservationist practices in the use and management of natural resources. (...)

Table 4.4. Brazil's federal government agricultural support programmes, 2017-21 (prevailing norms for crop-year 2021/22): (...)
Products/projects: Programme for the Modernization of Agriculture and the Conservation of Natural Resources (MODERAGRO): Projects related to sanitary and/or environmental adaptation needs limited to 35% of the amount of the investment in the following activities/crops: apiculture, aquaculture, poultry, chinchilla production, rabbit breeding, floriculture, fruit, palm trees, olive growing, production nuts, horticulture, sheep and goat farming, milk, fishing, frog culture, sericulture and pig farming. (...)
Beneficiaries: Farmers and cooperatives
Credit limit: BRL 880,000 (individual farmer) and BRL 2.64 million (collectively taken); BRL 400,000 for purchase of animals
Annual interest rate: Fixed: 7.5%; Post-fixed; 2.58% + monetary updating factors
Duration: Up to 10 years (3 year grace period)
Disbursement: 2017: 624; 2018: 1,123; 2019: 996; 2020: 1,398; 2021: 848
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Table 4.4. Brazil's federal government agricultural support programmes, 2017-21 (prevailing norms for crop-year 2021/22): (...)
Products/projects: Sectoral Plan for Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Changes for the Consolidation of a Low-Carbon Emission Economy in Agriculture (Plan ABC): Projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (e.g. recovery of pastures, recovery of degraded areas, organic crops, directing planting, integration of crops, cattle production, forest, forest plantation, environmental recuperation, waste treatment, Dendê plantation, biological nitrogen fixation, soil management and production of bio inputs or biofertilizers)
Beneficiaries: Farmers and cooperatives
Credit limit: BRL 5 million
Annual interest rate: Fixed: 5.5%; post-fixed: 0.67% + monetary updating factors - environmental recuperation; Fixed: 7%; post-fixed: 2.10% + monetary updating factors - other applications
Duration: Up to 12 years
Disbursement: 2017: 1,437; 2018: 2,093; 2019: 2,079; 2020: 2,296; 2021: 2,154
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Table 4.4. Brazil's federal government agricultural support programmes, 2017-21 (prevailing norms for crop-year 2021/22):
Products/projects: Medium-Scale Agricultural Producer Support Programme (PRONAMP): Investment in goods and services aimed at increasing productivity and income. Financeable items: financing, investment and technical assistance. In case of financing, it is also allowed to include funds to small expenses considered as investments ( (...) deforestation)
Beneficiaries: Farmers with gross annual income up to BRL 2.4 million
Credit limit: Financing: BRL 1.5 million; investment: BRL 430 million
Annual interest rate: Financing (working capital): 5.5%; Investment: 6.5%
Duration: Financing: up to 3 years; investment: up to 8 years (3 year grace period)
Disbursement: 2017: 19,538; 2018: 20,031; 2019: 25,239; 2020: 28,783; 2021: 29,070
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4.35. (...) Preferential interest rates were kept constant in several rural credit programmes at 0.5% to 4.6% for small producers (PRONAF), 6% for medium size producers (PROMAMP) and 5.25% for the Sectoral Plan for Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Changes for the Consolidation of a Low-Carbon Emission Economy in Agriculture (Plan ABC). (...)

4.38. (...) Refocusing supports provided for on farm investments that explicitly incorporate technological innovations and advanced farm management and environmental practices should be considered. Those could be provided in addition to the existing insurance and credit support conditional on environmental criteria and zoning rules that encourage environmental aspects. The National Policy on Climate Change has emission reduction targets for agriculture of around 5%-6%. Some preferential credit is available to modernize sustainable production systems and mitigate emissions as embedded into the Sectoral Plan for Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Changes for the Consolidation of a Low-Carbon Emission Economy in Agriculture (Plan ABC).