G/AG/N/BRA/74  
 
21 March  2023 
(23-2029) Page: 1/8 
Committee on Agriculture  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated 20 March  2023, 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 2020/2021 . 
 
_______________  
 
 
 
 
  
  G/AG/N/BRA/74  
 
- 2 - Table DS:1  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2020 TO 30 -06-2021  
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 
 
   
  G/AG/N/BRA/74  
 
- 3 - Supporting Table DS:1  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: CALENDAR YEAR 2021  
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  18,523  General budget  (1) 
Agricultural zoning service  60 General budget  (1) 
Subtotal:  18,583    
2 (b). Pest and disease control  Agricultural Protecion Program  9,148  General budget  (2) 
Subtotal:  9,148    
2 (c). Training services  Capacity building programs  2,284  General budget  (3) 
Educational services for rural areas  890 General budget  (3) 
Subtotal:  3,174    
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  724 General budget  (4) 
Extension services on rural development  3,249  General budget  (4) 
Extension services on sustainability and competitiveness  806 General budget  (4) 
Support for projects of agricultural development  31,451  General budget  (4) 
Support for technological innovation projects to family farming  1,496  General budget  (4) 
Technology transfer  2,271  General budget  (4) 
Weather forecast information  6,132  General budget  (4) 
Subtotal:  46,129    
2 (e). Inspection services  Inspection of agricultural services  7,873  General budget  (5) 
Inspection of organic production  0 General budget  (5) 
Subtotal:  7,873    
2 (f). Marketing and promotion services  International promotion services  3,425  General budget  (6) 
Support for marketing projects  0 General budget  (6) 
Subtotal:  3,425    
2 (g). Infrastructural services  Support for infrastructure projects in rural areas  96  General budget  (7) 
Support for irrigation programs  20,572  General budget  (7) 
Subtotal:  20,668    
2 (h). Other general services  Aquisition of rural land for agrarian organization  0  General budget  (8) 
Management of the rural settlement program  22,675  General budget  (8) 
Preparatory measures to acquisition of rural land  625 General budget  (8) 
Subtotal:  23,300    
 Subtotal General Services  132,300     
  G/AG/N/BRA/74  
 
- 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  46  General budget  (9) 
Maintenance and management  22 General budget  (9) 
Program of acquisition of agricultural products from family farming  34,034  General budget  (9) 
Subtotal:  34,102    
4. Domestic food aid  Meals for children in public schools  773,909  General budget  (10) 
Implementation of food and nutritional security in health  12,767  General budget  (10) 
Program of acquisition of agricultural products from family farming  10,911  General budget  (11) 
Subtotal:  797,587    
5. Direct payments to producers      
8. Payments for relief from natural disasters  Warranty -Crop Fund  45,541  General budget  (12) 
Subtotal:  45,541   
Grand Total Green Box  1,009,530   
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 plan t health services, zoosanitary and phytosanitary defen se 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 intermedia te 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 assistance and rural extensio n 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 t o 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 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, construction of rural roads, rural housing, rural electricity network services and facilities, electricity dist ribution, 
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, mainte nance 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 activities related to expendi tures with food assistance programmes targeted to the poor.    
  G/AG/N/BRA/74  
 
- 5 - (11)  Acquisition with Simultaneous Donation, through which the food acquired is directly sent to eligible receiving beneficiaries (people in situation of food and nutritional 
insecurity and indi viduals 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 ins urance sponsored by 
the federal government.  
 
   
  G/AG/N/BRA/74  
 
- 6 - Supporting Table DS:2  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR  FROM 01 -07-2020 TO 30 -06-2021  
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,  thous and 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  9,652 MAPA  (1) 
Subtotal:  9,652   
(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)  376 MAPA  (2) 
Subtotal:  376   
Grand Total Development Programmes  10,028   
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 Program), 
BNDES PSI -BK (Program for the Sustainability of Investment in Capital Goods), BNDES/FINAME (S pecial 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 Agric ulture and the Conservation of Natural Resources), Moderfrota (Tractor Fleet Modernization Incentives Program), Moderinfra (I ncentives 
Program for Irrigation and Storage), PCA (Program for the Construction and Expansion of Warehouses), PRI (Investment Enha ncement 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).  
 
   
  G/AG/N/BRA/74  
 
- 7 - Supporting Table DS:4  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2020 TO 30 -06-2021  
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)  1,367,547 208,221,628 0.66%  0 (de minimis )  
TOTAL  0  
 
 
   
  G/AG/N/BRA/74  
 
- 8 - Supporting Table DS:9  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT: BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2020 TO 30 -06-2021  
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 01-07-20 30-06-21  830,201  830,201 National 
Treasure  (1) 
Insurance Programs  AY 01-07-20 30-06-21 537,346   537,346 General 
Budget  (2) 
TOTAL  1,367,547  
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) (US D 218,795) and Agricultural Livestock Guarantee Programme (PROAGRO) (US D 318,551).  
 
 
__________