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Bolsonaro signs decree expanding soft financing for farmers
Measures include the creation of a “fraternal” fund that will provide an estimated 5 billion reais (US$ 1.20 billion) in additional credit for the sector Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday signed a decree with a variety of measures to expand financing for farmers. The measures include the creation of a “fraternal” fund that will provide an estimated 5 billion reais (US$ 1.20 billion) in additional credit for the sector, according to Rogerio Miranda, the Economy Ministry's deputy secretary for agriculture policy.
The fund will be partially funded by agricultural producers themselves and provides for farmers to band together to seek joint guarantees when renegotiating debts.
Bolsonaro is instituting the measures by what is known as a temporary decree, that must be approved by Congress within 120 days or its effects will expire.
The decree also included measures to equalize interest rates between all players providing loans to the farm sector, which officials said is aimed at promoting competition.
The policy will also subsidize grains companies to expand their storage capacity.
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Read all commentsIt's really a pity that even after selling tonnes of agricultural products, the farmers still remain so poor that they desperately NEED Special Financial-Assistance!
Oct 03rd, 2019 - 11:58 pm 0“There is real risk in the spread of information, which can put the lives of girls at risk,” said Brazil's Minister of Women, Family, and Human Rights, Damares Alves, in an opinion article published on October 2.
Oct 05th, 2019 - 03:43 pm 0The “dangerous information” she is talking about are the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) for a safe abortion, laid out in a September 18 news story by AzMina Magazine.
To punish those who dare publish the health advice from the most important health organization in the world, Minister Alves has filed a complaint before prosecutors urging them to open a criminal investigation against AzMina.
Minister Alves claims that the article incites the commission of a crime, conduct punished with up to 6 months in prison under Brazilian law.
It does no such thing. Abortion is legal in Brazil in cases of rape, when necessary to save a woman's life, or when the fetus suffers from anencephaly–a fatal congenital brain disorder–, and that's exactly what AzMina's story explains.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/10/04/brazils-human-rights-ministers-feigned-concern-women
@Terence Hill
Oct 07th, 2019 - 10:23 am 0REF: “Abortion is legal.........................AzMina's story explains”:
I'm sure that unwanted-pregnancies may be avoided altogether - instead of waiting till an abortion-stage - by Immediate-After-The-Rape-Treatments/Medications; maybe in many cases, if not all.
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