Two months after the milk production chain was announced by governor Reinaldo Azambuja (PSDB) as the next to receive a new fiscal incentive model in the State, as happened with poultry farming and irrigated agriculture, the proposals for the sector still remain within the scope of studies and discussions between representatives of rural producers, the Milk Technical Chamber and technicians from the Secretariat of Production and Family Agriculture (Sepaf).
According to Secretary Fernando Lamas (Sepaf), the main impasse is how to define mechanisms to encourage milk production in the State, since the activity earns little and is still considered a sector with great complexity in the local and national market.
“The big problem is that today, what the State Government collects from milk, considering the volume of our production, is very low. So we are thinking about mechanisms that can effectively stimulate. So what has the Government done? For example, there is a long-life milk industry being established in Jateí; so the Government is encouraging this industry. The incentives, so far, are more focused on the industrial area. The issue of production, we still haven’t found a definition”, he acknowledged.
According to the head of Sepaf, the project for the sector is being built, but if the impact is small, it does not motivate the producer to participate. “We need to create a mechanism that encourages and we know, or we have official information, that sometimes a lot of milk leaves the State so that the tax is not collected. So we are also paying attention to that”, he warned. For now, there is still no defined deadline for completing the studies.
Source: Correio do Estado
