Ministers from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Agrarian Development receive banana growers from across the country

The Minister of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa), Carlos Fávaro, and the Minister of Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture (MDA), Paulo Teixeira, received representatives of banana producers from various regions of Brazil on this Tuesday (30). Accompanying the producers were Senator Jaime Bagatolli, deputies Enio Tatto, from (PT-SP), Jorge Gotten (Rep-SC), Sandra Kennedy, national secretary of Institutional Articulation of the Ministry of Women, councilors, and mayors from various cities. The producers came to talk about the opening of the Brazilian market to import banana production from Ecuador and the concern with some phytosanitary issues in the production of that country, particularly the fungus Fusarium oxysporum race 4. The producers also pointed out the economic and social importance of bananas in various regions of Brazil, such as the Ribeira Valley, in São Paulo, irrigated regions in northern Minas Gerais and Ceará, Bahia, Tocantins, Ceará, and Espírito Santo, as ...