Lula tries to get closer to the agro and announces new financing of Plano Safra by BNDES

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) announced this Tuesday (6) a new credit line for the Safra Plan of R$ 3.6 billion through the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), during the opening of Bahia Farm Show, fair dedicated to agricultural technology in the city of Luís Eduardo Magalhães (BA).

The announcement of the resources was made through Minister Carlos Fávaro, of Agriculture, who also disclosed resources for financing in dollars for the construction and expansion of warehouses, irrigation works, purchase of equipment, among others.

During his participation in the fair, Lula again repeated allegations that the economy has shrunk in recent years in comparison with previous PT governments, and that his administrations were the ones that most released funds to agribusiness.

“Everyone needs government, small, large and medium [produtor] it needs. If the State does not put money in, many times agribusiness would not be at the size it is to finance the machines, the harvest, guarantee exports”, he said.

Lula also pointed out that the criticism he usually makes is not against producers who “work correctly”, but those who produce in areas with restrictions such as the Caatinga, the Amazon rainforest, among others. “Now, anyone who wants to act like a criminal and deforest will have to suffer the penalties of the law, because we are going to preserve this country”, she added.

Lula’s approach to agribusiness comes after successive statements against the sector, in which he has already called businessmen “fascists and denialists”. One of them was with the organization of the Agrishow in Ribeirão Preto (SP) in April, in which Minister Carlos Fávaro did not attend.