The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, Kátia Abreu, released on this Thursday (05/14), in Teresina, the Plan of Agribusiness Development of Matopiba – an strategic region for the sector, which includes parts of the states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia.
The event has been held in the Ceir auditorium and was attended by the governor Wellington Dias (PT); by the secretary for the Rural Development of Piauí, Francisco Limma; by the national president of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Maurício Antônio Lopes; and by the senators Elmano Férrer (PTB) and Regina Sousa (PT).
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Accordingly to the minister Kátia Abreu, in this first moment the benefited region of Piauí will be the High-Medium part of the river Gurguéia, which includes eleven cities of the state of Piauí.
Initially, the agency will prioritize investments in two sectors: infrastructure and innovation and technology. The road BR 235, which is being constructed between Caracol and Bom Jesus, will be expanded up to the state of Maranhão. Besides that, the promise of the Federal Government is to extend the Transnordestina Railway up to the city of Açailândia (MA), in order to ease the outflow of products manufactured in Piauí up to the ports of Belem (PA) and São Luis (MA).
In the first operation years, the agency also intends to invest in a massive way in the control of pests and in the formation of young people through courses related to the agribusiness sector.
Accordingly to Kátia Abreu, the Development Agency of Matopiba will also have a department specifically directed for stimulating the insertion of the city’s local population in the productive and logistical chain of the region.
During the event, which was held in the CEIR auditorium, the mayors of the cities included in Matopiba signed an enrolment term for the development program. Each mayor received a tractor in the ceremony and will receive a drilling for the construction of wells.
The decree for the creation of the Development Agency of Matopiba was sanctioned in the last May the 6th by president Dilma Rousseff (PT).
The objective of the agency is to boost the economic development of the cities that integrate the Matopiba region, benefiting small, medium and big-sized producers, focused on sustainability and regional integration.
“Matopiba, whose name is an acronym formed by the initial letters of the states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia, is considered the ultimate agricultural border and nowadays represents roughly 10% of the production of grains in Brazil. It is strategic for the social emergence of small local producers and for an increase of the sustainable production and of the agricultural exportation of the country”, highlighted the State Government through a press release aired by its Communication Coordination (CCom).
Fonte: Portal O Dia
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