Federal Government promotes seminar on sustainable aquaculture in Brazil and Paraguay

The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Mapa) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE) held this Wednesday (23), at the Itamaraty Palace, a Seminar on Sustainable Aquaculture in Brazil and Paraguay. The event brought together authorities from both countries, specialists and producers. At the opening of the event, Minister Tereza Cristina highlighted that, in recent years, Mapa and other federal agencies have changed and adjusted rules that guarantee legal certainty so that aquaculture farmers can produce in Union waters. “It is a relatively new activity in Brazil (aquaculture). It has recently become commercially active, but is gaining scale. It is an activity that brings income, which can employ the small aquaculturer”, he said. The adoption of several measures has reduced the bureaucracy of the process of assigning areas of Águas da União for aquaculture purposes, such as 100% digital request and withdrawal of bidding for the processes. With these measures, 231 ...