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The Minister of Agrarian Development and Family Farming, Paulo Teixeira, said this Tuesday (1st) that food prices will fall with the Family Farming Harvest Plan, which provides R$$ 89 billion for rural credit within the scope of the National Program for Strengthening Family Farming (Pronaf) and other policies.
The amount is a record for the sector – in 2024, R$76 billion in resources were allocated.
“For the third consecutive year, President Lula has launched three record harvest plans for Brazil, both for family farming and corporate farming. This year, we are breaking a new record, with R$89 billion. Does this help? It helps. Because, for three consecutive years, we have had record harvests in Brazil – R$1.2 billion tons of food produced,” he said.
During an interview with radio stations during the Bom Dia, Ministro program, produced by Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC), Teixeira recalled that investments are already reflected in the drop in the price of rice, which fell by 33%; beans, which fell by 10%; potatoes, which fell by 46%; bananas, by 16%; and tomatoes, by 29,77%. “At the same time that inflation is falling, food is leading this drop in the inflation rate,” he said. “We are living in good times and what President Lula wants is cheap, quality food, with plenty on the tables of the Brazilian people,” he added.
