EYES BIGGER THAN BRAINS!!!

[Reproduced from Greenpeace Brazil]

[Title is mine]

Senator Kátia Abreu (President of "Confederação Nacional da Agricultura e Pecuária")

The circus was mounted. Invited press numbers decorated on the tip of the tongue, representation tested. This Wednesday (10), at the headquarters of the "CNA" (National Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil), the distinguished President, Senator Katia Abreu (PSD-TO), presented to the audience their newest study.

The research points out that, if kept the average rates of establishment of  "UCs"  (Conservation Units) and TIs (Indigenous Lands) of "eras FHC and Lula" from 2011 to 2018 would be placed under State protection more 48.81 million hectares, which supposedly would correspond to a loss of R$ 204.6 billion (U$85 billions) in gross domestic product (GDP) of the country in eight years.
What does not take into account is that this process is not cumulative. The Rousseff Government, for example, created only three UCs, totaling just over 44 thousand hectares, the lowest number in about 20 years. A similar situation occurs in relation to the expansion of agrarian reform and the approval of indigenous lands, which have their processes stopped since the start of the current management.

In addition, there is sustainable use conservation units, which allow the production and forest management. But it seems that Kátia is unaware of this productive sector - one of the tiny agriculturalists and family farming. The CNA's  study also does not take in account that creation of these units over the years helped to halt the illegal deforestation in their respective regions.

The problem in Brazil today, therefore, is not the areas intended for the production volume - 330 million hectares, according to the study itself  –  or protected by law  –  231 million hectares, but the areas of abandoned land so inconsequential by extensive livestock or planting soybeans. What you see, then, is that in Brazil there is no lack of area, but awareness of the responsible use of the Earth.

OBSERVATION of the AUTHOR of THIS BLOG: it's amazing the greed of some "ruralists"!!! They do not want to take the trouble to take note of the experience of colleagues who have deployed processes that recover degraded lands and practised sustainable development. I suggest the senator Kátia just take a look at previous posts in www.ecologiaemfoco.blogspot.com  (in Portuguese):
08/06/2013: Integration Crop-Livestock-Forest and
26/05/2013: Amazon: you do not need to move into the forest - Statement of a Cattleman.