The Minister of Agrarian Development and Family Farming, Paulo Teixeira, said on Wednesday (20) at night (20), in an interview with Voz do Brasil, that the Brazilian government will buy perishable products, such as fruits, fish and meat. 
According to Teixeira, the destination of the products should be school meals, the food of the Armed Forces, the hospitals, the university restaurants and the food acquisition programs intended for populations in food insecurity.
“The government will encourage states and municipalities to acquire these products by public school feeding programs,” he said. Paulo Teixeira explained that this will represent a school feed, for example, with products of the best quality.
Other buyers
“We are just regulating because we realize that some sectors can quickly redirect these programs to other countries.”
One of the examples he cited was the case of chestnut that should be marketed to Europe. “The same happens with coffee. There is no coffee in the world today, nowhere, to replace the Brazilian product,” he argued.
In the case of meat, the minister stated that the product can be stocked, frozen and redirected. However, in relation to products such as honey, acai, grapes and fish are more perishable and should therefore be absorbed in national public purchasing programs.
Production chain
“The government will include in all its public purchasing notices the acquisition so that there is no loss of food,” he said.
He stressed that purchases will protect direct entrepreneurs and the entire production chain. The minister says that exporters will sell the products for the price they would use in the domestic market. “Certainly the government cannot afford the price in dollars, which is the export price. But the government can pay the price of the domestic market.”
