G/AG/N/BRA/79  
 
19 April 2024 
(24-3275) Page: 1/9 
Committee on Agriculture  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated 17 April  2024, is being circulated at the request of the delegation 
of Brazil . The notification concerns domestic support commitments ( Table DS:1 and the relevant 
supporting tables) for the Agricultural Year 2021/2022 . 
 
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- 2 - Table  DS:1  
DOMESTIC  SUPPORT: BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD : AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2021 TO 30 -06-2022  
Current  Total Aggregate Measurement of Support  
Total AMS commitment level  Currency  Current Total AMS  
(from Section I of Part IV of the Schedule)  (from Section I of Part IV of the Schedule)  (from attached Supporting Tables)  
1  2  3  
912,105.15  USD/thousand  0 
  
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- 3 - Supporting Table DS:1  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR  YEAR 2022  
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment - "Green Box"  
Measure Type  Name and  description  of measure with reference to criteria in Annex  2 Monetary  value  
 
USD,  thousand  Data Sources  Note  
1 2 3 4  
2. General Services      
2 (a). Research  Agricultural  research program  27,471  General budget  (1) 
Agricultural zoning service  198 General budget  (1) 
Subtotal:  27,669   
2 (b). Pest and disease control  Agricultural Protecion Program  12,455  General budget  (2) 
Subtotal:  12,455   
2 (c). Training services  Capacity building programs  770  General budget  (3) 
Educational services for rural areas  763 General budget  (3) 
Subtotal:  1,533   
2 (d).  Extension  and advisory  services  Acquisition of equipments by municipalities for services in rural areas  0  General budget  (4) 
Extension services on agricultural production  2,426  General budget  (4) 
Extension services on rural development  4,012  General budget  (4) 
Extension services on sustainability and competitiveness  2,401  General budget  (4) 
Support for projects of agricultural development  7,769  General budget  (4) 
Support for technological innovation projects to family farming  2,251  General budget  (4) 
Technology transfer  3,604  General budget  (4) 
Weather forecast information  5,842  General budget  (4) 
Subtotal:  28,305   
2 (e). Inspection services  Inspection of agricultural services  8,236  General budget  (5) 
Inspection of organic production  0 General budget  (5) 
Subtotal:  8,236   
2 (f). Marketing and promotion services  International promotion services  2,059  General budget  (6) 
Support for marketing projects  0 General budget  (6) 
Subtotal:  2,059   
2 (g). Infrastructural services  Support for infrastructure projects in rural areas  1,078  General budget  (7) 
Support for irrigation programs  124,041  General budget  (7) 
Subtotal:  125,119   
2 (h). Other general services  Aquisition of rural land for agrarian organization  272  General budget  (8) 
Management of the rural settlement program  2,260  General budget  (8) 
Preparatory measures to acquisition of rural land  329 General budget  (8) 
Subtotal:  2,861   
 Subtotal General Services  208,237    
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- 4 - Measure Type  Name and  description  of measure with reference to criteria in Annex  2 Monetary  value  
 
USD,  thousand  Data Sources  Note  
1 2 3 4  
3. Public stockholding for food security purposes  Inspection of public stocks  131  General budget  (9) 
Maintenance and management  261 General budget  (9) 
Program of acquisition of agricultural products from family farming  23,773  General budget  (9) 
Subtotal:  24,165   
4. Domestic food aid  Meals for children in public schools  490,394  General budget  (10) 
Implementation of food and nutritional security in health  11,941  General budget  (10) 
Program of acquisition of agricultural products from family farming  34,494  General budget  (11) 
Subtotal:  536,829   
8. Payments for relief from natural disasters  Warranty -Crop Fund  90,672  General budget  (12) 
Subtotal:  90,672   
Grand Total Green Box  859,903   
Notes:  
(1) Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, related to infrastructure, acquisition of equipment and other expenditures in activities of coordination and 
maintenance of research and the diffusion of their results.  
(2) Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in activities related to animal and plant health services, zoosanitary and phytosanitary defense and alertness, 
inspection and disease control, training programmes related to disease control and prevention, warning services.  
(3) Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in activities related to secondary education  that provides intermediate professional qualification and higher 
education oriented to rural activities provided by agricultural colleges and universities.  
(4) Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in activities that provide technical assi stance and rural extension services to small producers, operation and 
improvement of meteorological services, services for cooperatives and other farm associations (studies, researches and traini ng). 
(5) Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources , in activities related to classification and inspection of animal and vegetal products, improvement of seed 
production and marketing (seed fields registration), standardization and grading, animal genetic and zootechnic improvement.  
(6) Budgetary expendit ures, financed by public resources, in activities related to improvement of the marketing system and development of new marke ts, support to the 
creation and maintenance of expositions parks and fair facilities, building and maintenance of central market fa cilities, and improvement of agricultural market 
information services.  
(7) Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in activities related to implementation and operation of irrigation pro grammes, construction and maintenance of 
public dams for  irrigation and for urban water supply, construction of rural roads, rural housing, rural electricity network services and fac ilities, electricity distribution, 
forestry development and management and environmental programmes.  
(8) Agrarian organization; ag rarian reform settlement. Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in activities related to agrarian policy, agr arian reform and 
settlement projects.  
(9) Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in activities related to expenditur es with formation, maintenance and selling of government stocks which form an 
integral part of a federal food security programme as defined by Law N°8171 ("Agriculture Law"), from  17/01/91.  
(10) Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in acti vities related to expenditures with food assistance programmes targeted to the poor.  
(11) Acquisition with Simultaneous Donation, through which the food acquired is directly sent to eligible receiving beneficiaries (people in situation of food and nutritio nal 
insecurity and individuals assisted by government social assistance; education and health networks). Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in activities 
related to expenditures with food assistance programmes targeted to the poor.  
(12) Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in activities related to decrease risk and uncertainty in agriculture, through agricultural insurance sponsored by 
the federal government.   
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- 5 - Supporting Table DS:2  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2021 TO 30 -06-2022  
Measures exempt from the reduction commitment – Special and Differential Treatment – "Development Programmes"  
Measure Type  Name and description of measure with reference to criteria in Article 6.2  Monetary value  
 
USD,  thousand  Data Sources  Note  
1 2 3 4  
(a) Investment subsidies generally available to 
agriculture  INVESTMENT CREDIT - government and private funds, directed to improve rural 
structure, acquisitions of machines, equipments, vehicles and animal services  413,462 MAPA  (1) 
Subtotal:  413,462   
(b) Input subsidies available to low -income or 
resource -poor producers  PRODUCTION CREDIT - government and private funds, mostly compulsory, 
allocated to production at preferential interest rates generally available to low -
income or resource -poor producers (under PRONAF Program)  269,320 MAPA  (2) 
Subtotal:  269,320   
Grand Total Development Programmes  682,782   
Notes:  
(1) Implicit subsidy based on the difference between the interest rate of each of the following program and SELIC interest rate: ABC (Low Carbon Agriculture Pr ogram), 
BNDES PSI -BK (Program for the Sustainability of Investment in Capital Goods), BNDES/FINAME (Special Agency for Industrial F inancing), FTRA  (Special Program for 
Acquisition of Rural Land), Constitutional Funds (FNO, FNE and FCO), Inovagro (Program to Encourage Innovation in Agricultura l Production), Moderagro  (Program for 
the Modernization of Agriculture and the Conservation of  Natural Resources), Moderfrota (Tractor Fleet Modernization Incentives Program), Moderinfra (Incentives 
Program for Irrigation and Storage), PCA (Program for the Construction and Expansion of Warehouses), PRI (Investment Enhancem ent Program), 
Procap -Agro (Agricultural Cooperatives Capitalization Program), Prodecoop (Cooperative Development Program for the Enhancement of Agricul tural Value Added), 
Pronamp (Medium -Scale Agricultural Producer Support Program), and Rural Savings, Mandatory Resources and State Funds at controlled interest rates.  
(2) Implicit subsidy based on the difference between PRONAF (Program to Strengthen Household Agriculture) interest rate and SELIC  (Special System for Liquidation and 
Custody) interest rate (interest rate for the overnight interbank loans collateralized by government bonds).   
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- 6 - Supporting Table DS:4  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2021 TO 30 -06-2022  
Calculation of the Current Total Aggregate Measurement of Support  
Description of basic products (including 
non-product specific AMS)  
 
 Product  specific  AMS 
(from ST DS:5 
to DS:7)  
 
USD,  thousand  Product -specific  EMS 
(from ST DS:8)  
 
 
USD,  thousand  Total  
(2 + 3)  
 
 
USD,  thousand  Value of production  
 
 
 
USD,  thousand  Support  as a % 
of value of 
production  Current Total AMS  
 
 
 
USD,  thousand  Note  
 
1 2 3    4  
Maize  11,151  11,151 26,675,400 0.04%  0 (de minimis )  
Coffee  15,683  15,683 10,034,242 0.16%  0 (de minimis )  
Non-product -specific AMS(from ST/DS:9)  2,614,453 208,221,628 1.26%  0 (de minimis )  
TOTAL  0  
  
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- 7 - Supporting Table DS:5  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2021 TO 30 -06-2022  
Product -Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support: Market Price Support  
Description of basic 
products  Reporting Year  Measure 
Types  Applied 
administered 
price  
 
 
 
USD External 
reference 
price 
(generally 
from AGST)  
 
USD Eligible production  Associated 
fees / levies  
 
 
 
 
USD,  thousand  Total market 
price support 
((4-5)*6) -7 
 
 
 
USD,  thousand  Data 
Sources  Note  
Type  From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9  
Maize AY 01-07-21 30-06-22 AGF 320/Tonne  131/Tonne  59 thousand Tonnes  0 11,151 MAPA   
Total Maize          11,151   
  
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- 8 - Supporting Table DS:7  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2021 TO 30 -06-2022  
Product -Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support: Other Product -Specific Support and Total Product -Specific AMS  
Description 
of basic 
products  Reporting Year  Measure Types  Other 
product -
specific 
budgetary 
outlays  
 
 
 
USD,  
thousand  Other 
product 
specific 
support 
(with 
calculation 
details)  
 
USD,  
thousand  Associated 
fees / 
levies  Total 
other 
product -
specific 
support  
(4+5 -6) 
 
 
USD,  
thousand  Market price 
support 
(from ST 
DS:5)  
 
 
 
 
USD,  
thousand  Non-exempt 
direct 
payments 
(from ST 
DS:6)  
 
 
 
USD,  
thousand  Total AMS  
(7+8+9)  
 
 
 
 
 
 
USD, 
thousand  Data 
Sources  Note  
Type  From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  
Total Maize          11,151  11,151   
Coffee  AY 01-07-21 30-06-22 Product -specific  credit   15,683  15,683    MAPA   
Total  Coffee         15,683   15,683   
General Note:  
The following products may be supported by non -exempt support programmes, according to the available funds and the market price: barley, Brazilian wax, canola, cashew nut, 
cassava, cassava flour, cassava starch, castor beans, coffee, cotton, cottonseed, ed ible beans, ethanol, garlic, grapes, guarana, jute, maize, malva, milk, oat, orange, peanuts, 
rice, silk cocoon, sisal, sorghum, soybeans, sugar cane, sunflower, triticale and wheat. If the product is not listed in this  table, it means the product received  no support during the 
crop-year. Some products have the right to be supported only on specific States or Regions.   
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- 9 - Supporting Table DS:9  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2021 TO 30 -06-2022  
Non-Product -Specific AMS  
Measure Types  Reporting Year  Non-product -
specific 
budgetary 
outlays  
 
USD,  thousand  Other non -product 
specific support 
(include 
calculation details)  
 
USD,  thousand  Associated 
fees / levies  
 
 
 
USD,  thousand  Total non -
product -specific 
support  
(3+4 -5) 
 
USD,  thousand  Data Sources  Note  
Type  From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7  
Debt rescheduling programs  AY 01-07-21 30-06-22  915,292  915,292 National  Treasure  (1) 
Insurance Programs  AY 01-07-21 30-06-22 1,176,714   1,176,714 General Budget  (2) 
Non-product -specific production and marketing 
credit  AY 01-07-21 30-06-22 522,447   522,447 MAPA  (3) 
TOTAL  2,614,453  
Notes:  
(1) Implicit subsidy based on the difference between the rescheduled program interest rate and SELIC interest rate. The debt reschedule program is Rural Debt 
Securitisation.  
(2) Program of Support to Rural Insurance Premiums (PSR) and Agricultural Livestock Guarantee Programme (PROAGRO).  
(3) Implicit subsidy based on the difference between the interest rate of each of the following programs and SELIC (Special Syste m for Liquidation and Custody) interest 
rate (interest rate for the overnight interbank loans collateralized by government bonds ): Constitucional Funds (FNO,  FNE and FCO), Pronamp (Medium -Scale 
Agricultural Procucer Support Program), and Rural Savings and Mandatory Resources at controled interest rates.  
 
 
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