After veto, sugarcane growers meet with Mantega.
After suffering significant losses due to the worst drought in the last 50 years and threatening a protest against President Dilma Rousseff (PT) during her visit to Pernambuco to inaugurate the World Cup Arena, on the 20th, sugarcane producers and suppliers from the Northeast will have a meeting with the Minister of Finance, Guido Mantega, this Thursday (16); the regional sugarcane sector is dissatisfied with President Dilma's veto of economic subsidies for the approximately 21 producers affected by the drought.
PE247 - After suffering losses due to the worst drought in the last 50 years and threatening a protest against President Dilma Rousseff (PT) during her visit to Pernambuco to inaugurate the World Cup Arena, on the 20th, sugarcane producers and suppliers from the Northeast will have a meeting with the Minister of Finance, Guido Mantega, this Thursday (16), at 11 am, in Brasília. The sugarcane sector is dissatisfied with President Dilma's veto of economic subsidies for the approximately 21 producers affected by the drought.
According to the Northeastern Union of Sugarcane Producers (Unida), the protest scheduled for next Monday is expected to bring together around 3 producers from across the region. According to Unida's president, Alexandre Andrade Lima, the arrival of 70 buses from Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Alagoas, and the interior of Pernambuco has already been confirmed.
On the agenda for the meeting with the minister, producers are expected to request a reassessment of the veto on subsidies for the regional sugarcane sector, which provided for a payment of R$ 10 per ton of sugarcane – they currently receive R$ 5 – with a limit of 10 tons per producer.