General Law for Agricultural, Livestock and Fisheries Development 101 of 1993

This proposal aims to protect the development of agricultural and fishing activities and promote the improvement of the income and quality of life of rural producers by means of the following actions: 1) granting special protection to food production; 2) adapting the agricultural and fishing sector to the internationalization of the economy, on the basis of equity, reciprocity and national convenience; 3) promoting the development of the national agri-food system; 4) raising the efficiency and competitiveness of agricultural, livestock and fishing products by creating special conditions; 5) to promote the modernization of agricultural, livestock and fisheries marketing; 6) to ensure the provision of a sufficient volume of credit resources for the development of agricultural, livestock and fisheries activities, under financial conditions appropriate to the cycles of harvests and prices, as well as to the risks that affect rural production; 7) to create the bases for a system of incentives for rural capitalization and the protection of natural resources; 8) to promote technological development in agriculture and the provision of technical assistance to small producers, in accordance with decentralization and participation processes; 9) to determine the conditions for the operation of quotas and parafiscal contributions for the agricultural and fishing sector; 10) to establish the Agricultural and Fishing Products Price Stabilization Funds. For the purposes of this Law, commercial logging and reforestation are considered essentially agricultural activities. This Law, through chapters III (Provision of credit for the agricultural and fishing sector), IV (Incentive to rural capitalization) and XI (Agricultural insurance), provides that the State will subsidize credit for small producers, encourage credit for rural capitalization and guarantee the adequate availability of credit resources for the agricultural sector (chapter III). III); it will create the Certificate of Incentive to Rural Capitalization to which any natural or juridical person who executes investment projects in the agricultural sector will be entitled (Chapter IV); and it will contribute to the payment of the premiums that agricultural producers must pay to take out the insurance referred to in Article 1 of Law No. 69 of 1993.