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With the decree published on January 1, 2023 to restructure the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, it took effect on Tuesday, January 24. However, the former Secretariat of Innovation, Sustainable Development and Irrigation also became involved with cooperativism, know more!
In addition, the Secretariat will continue to be responsible for super important topics such as Sustainability, Innovation, Competitiveness Layer, Agricultural Bioeconomy, and Cooperativism. By the way, on Thursday, the 19th, food engineer Renata Bueno Miranda was appointed to lead the SDI, being the first woman to take command of the Secretariat.
In a speech, Renata said: “The SDI is focused on sustainability, innovation, competitiveness, the addition of value to production chains, but with a focus on the territory with its peculiarities and autonomy. This Secretariat holds the responsibility to modernize and harmonize our production system concerning the quality of life of the Brazilian population and the world.”
As mandated by the decree, the Secretariat will be responsible for formulating public policies for Innovation and rural development that are based on innovative and sustainable agricultural practices. The objective is to promote integrations with other public policies.
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Macaúba has ceased to be a pest in the cerrado and has become a billion-dollar bet to supply planes and trucks, with Mubadala eyeing R$ 15 billion, vegetable oil, degraded lands, and sustainable fuel that still depends on future commercial-scale harvesting.
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Petrobras signed a contract worth R$ 11 billion with the Norwegian company DOF to build four subsea support vessels at the Navship shipyard in Navegantes. The vessels will have hybrid propulsion with batteries and electric motors, and the project is expected to generate 7,000 direct and indirect jobs in Santa Catarina.
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Mother and daughter left the city, became cheesemakers, and now sell sheep’s milk products in RS, according to a report, with award-winning sweets, their own agribusiness, and a demanding routine balancing motherhood, animals, climate, production, and sales in a niche market.
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Small city in Rio Grande do Sul receives Havan megastore with 11,000 m², four cinemas, and a food court, in a unit that will be the 192nd of the chain and reinforces the expansion plan for all Brazilian states.
Thus, from this point, it will seek improvements in the Brazilian environment and innovation in agriculture, which also includes connectivity programs, such as a digital ecosystem, bioeconomy of new technologies, competitiveness, and sustainability of production chains, be they agricultural, livestock, or forestry.
Moreover, the improvements would also be geared towards rural cooperativism and associativism and even other objectives. However, divided into six departments, the SDI will count on the support of the Department of Support and Innovation for Agriculture, also with the support of the Department of Development of Productive Chains and geographical indications, among other bodies. In this case, the focus will be on sustainable production and even on value addition.
In this way, the SDI will continue to seek to increase sustainable agricultural production, which will lead to the implementation of plans, actions, programs, and activities. One of the objectives is also the recovery of degraded areas, and the Union will promote the development and dissemination of sustainable technology; according to Renata, modernization and harmonization are part of a transformation into a more sustainable production system.
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