G/AG/N/BRA/63  
 
17 May 2021 
(21-4079) Page: 1/7 
Committee on Agriculture  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated 11 May  2021, 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 2018/2019 . 
 
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- 2 - Table DS:1  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2018 TO 30 -06-2019  
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: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2018 TO 30 -06-2019  
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  50,568  General budget  (1) 
Agricultural zoning service  102 General budget  (1) 
Subtotal:  50,670    
2 (b). Pest and disease control  Agricultural Protecion Program  16,568  General budget  (2) 
Subtotal:  16,568    
2 (c). Training services  Capacity building programs  492 General budget  (3) 
Educational services for rural areas  679 General budget  (3) 
Subtotal:  1,171    
2 (d). Extension and advisory services  Extension services on agricultural production  1,336  General budget  (4) 
Extension services on rural development  19,606  General budget  (4) 
Extension services on sustainability and competitiveness  26,812  General budget  (4) 
Support for projects of agricultural development  11,215  General budget  (4) 
Support for technological innovation projects to family farming  8 General budget  (4) 
Technology transfer  1,685  General budget  (4) 
Weather forecast information  8,027  General budget  (4) 
Subtotal:  68,689    
2 (e). Inspection services  Inspection of agricultural services  507 General budget  (5) 
Subtotal:  507   
2 (f). Marketing and promotion services  International promotion services  3488 General budget  (6) 
Support for marketing projects  288 General budget  (6) 
Subtotal:  3,776    
2 (g). Infrastructural services  Support for infrastructure projects in rural areas  273 General budget  (7) 
Support for irrigation programs  19,132  General budget  (7) 
Subtotal:  19,405    
2 (h). Other general services  Acquisition of rural land for agrarian organization  838 General budget  (8) 
Management of the rural settlement program for agrarian organization  53,047  General budget  (8) 
Preparatory measures for acquisition of rural land for agrarian organization  3978 General budget  (8) 
Subtotal:  57,863    
 Subtotal General Services  218,649     
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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  238 General budget  (9) 
Program of acquisition of agricultural products from family farming  28,756  General budget  (9) 
Maintenance and management  22,237  General budget  (9) 
Implementation of food and nutritional security in health  12,140  General budget  (9) 
Subtotal:  63,371    
4. Domestic food aid  Meals for children in public schools  1,003,748  General budget  (10) 
Subtotal:  1,003,748    
8. Payments for relief from natural disasters  Warranty -Crop Fund  118,703  General budget  (11) 
Subtotal:  118,703    
Grand Total Green Box  1,404,471    
General Note:  
All ST  DS:1 measure s are for Calendar Year 2019.  
Notes:  
(1) Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, related to infrastructure, acquisition of equipment and other expenditu res 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, 
inspectio n 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 qualifica tion 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 assistance and rural extension ser vices to small produ cers, 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 insp ection of animal and vegetal products, improvement of seed 
production and marketing (seed fields registration), standardization and grading, animal genetic and zootechnic improvement.  
(6) Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in activities related to improvement of the marketing system and development of new markets, support to the 
creation and maintenance of expositions parks and fair facilities, building and maintenance of central market facilities, 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, constructi on of rural roads, rural housing, rural electricity network services and facilities, electricity distribution, 
forestry development and management and environmental programmes.  
(8) Agrarian organization; agrarian reform settlement. Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in activities related to agrarian policy, agrarian reform and 
settlement projects.  
(9) Budgetary expenditures, financed by public resources, in activities related to expenditures with formation, maintenance and s elling 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 activities related to expenditures with food assis tance programmes targeted to the poor.  
(11) 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 Tabl e DS:2  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BRAZIL  
8REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2018 TO 30 -06-2019  
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  52,225 Ministry of Agriculture  (1) 
Subtotal:  52,225   
(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)  21,985 Ministry of Agriculture  (2) 
Subtotal:  21,985   
Grand Total Development Programmes  74,210   
Notes: 
(1) Implici t subsidy based on the difference  between the interest rate of each of the following program and SELIC interest rate: ABC (Low Carbon Agriculture Program), 
BNDES PSI -BK (Program for the Sustainability of Investment in Capital Goods), BNDES/FINAME (Special Agency for Industrial Financing),  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 R esources), 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 (Agricultu ral Cooperatives Capitalization Program), Prodecoop (Cooperative Development Program for the Enhancement of Agricultural Valu e Added), 
Pronamp  (Medium -Scale Agricultural Producer Support Program), and Rural Savings, Mandatory Resources and State Funds at controlled  interest rates.  
(2) Implici t 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 interban k loans collateralized by government bonds).  
   
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- 6 - Supporting Table DS:4  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2018 TO 30 -06-2019  
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  
Non-product -specific AMS(from ST/DS:9)  977,836 150,415,022 0.65%  0  
TOTAL  0  
 
   
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- 7 - Supporting Table DS:9  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2018 TO 30 -06-2019  
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 program mes AY 01-07-18 30-06-19  783,449  783,449 National 
Treasure  (1) 
Insurance program mes AY 01-07-18 30-06-19 184,078   184,078 General 
Budget  (2) 
Non-product -specific production and marketing 
credit  AY 01-07-18 30-06-19  10,309  10,309 Ministry of 
Agriculture  (3) 
TOTAL  977,836  
Notes:  
(1) Implicit subsidy based on the difference between the rescheduled program interest rate and SELIC interest rate. The debt resc hedule 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): Constitutional  Funds (FNO,FNE and FCO), Pronamp (Medium -Scale Agricultural 
Producer Support Program), and Rural Savings and Mandatory Resources at controlled  interest rates.  
 
 
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