G/AG/N/BRA/69  
 
18 February  2022 
(22-1589) Page: 1/9 
Committee on Agriculture  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION  
The following submission, dated 16 February  2022, 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 2019/2020 . 
 
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- 2 - Table  DS:1  
DOMESTIC  SUPPORT : BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL  YEAR FROM 01 -07-2019 TO 30 -06-2020  
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  2020  
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  16,045  General Budget  (1) 
Agricultural zoning service  10 General Budget  (1) 
Subtotal:  16,055   
2 (b). Pest and disease control  Agricultural Protecion Program  12,588  General Budget  (2) 
Subtotal:  12,588   
2 (c). Training services  Capacity building programs  2,985  General Budget  (3) 
Educational services for rural areas  138 General Budget  (3) 
Subtotal:  3,123   
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  326 General Budget  (4) 
Extension services on rural development  5,165  General Budget  (4) 
Extension services on sustainability and competitiveness  26,700  General Budget  (4) 
Support for projects of agricultural development  2,486  General Budget  (4) 
Support for technological innovation projects to family farming  7 General Budget  (4) 
Technology transfer  2,600  General Budget  (4) 
Weather forecast information  4,798  General Budget  (4) 
Subtotal:  42,082    
2 (e). Inspection services  Inspection of agricultural services  5,441  General Budget  (5) 
Inspection of organic production  0 General Budget  (5) 
Subtotal:  5,441   
2 (f). Marketing and promotion services  International promotion services  1,316  General Budget  (6) 
Support for marketing projects  7 General Budget  (6) 
Subtotal:  1,323   
2 (g). Infrastructural services  Support for infrastructure projects in rural areas  197  General Budget  (7) 
Support for irrigation programs  10,275 General Budget  (7) 
Subtotal:  10,472   
2 (h). Other general services  Aquisition of rural land for agrarian organization  896  General Budget  (8) 
Management of the rural settlement program  35,812 General Budget  (8) 
Preparatory measures to acquisition of rural land  892 General Budget  (8) 
Subtotal:  37,600   
 Subtotal General Services  128,684    
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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  81  General Budget  (9) 
Program of acquisition of agricultural products from family farming  5,504  General Budget  (9) 
Maintenance and management  12,714  General Budget  (9) 
Implementation of food and nutritional security in health  10,686  General Budget  (9) 
Subtotal:  28,985    
4. Domestic food aid  Meals for children in public schools  837,270  General Budget  (10) 
Subtotal:  837,270   
8. Payments for relief from natural disasters  Warranty -Crop Fund  90,823  General Budget  (11) 
Subtotal:  90,823   
Grand Total Green Box  1,085,762   
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, 
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 orient ed 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 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 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 rura l 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 b y 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 sto cks 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 assistance programm es 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 Table DS:2  
DOMESTIC  SUPPORT: BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2019 TO 30 -06-2020  
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  60,030 Ministry of Agriculture, 
Livestock and Food Supply 
(MAPA)  (1) 
Subtotal:  60,030   
(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)  24,925 Ministry of Agriculture, 
Livestock and Food Supply 
(MAPA)  (2) 
Subtotal:  24,925   
Grand Total Development Programmes  84,955   
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 A griculture Program), 
BNDES  PSI-BK (Program for the Sustainability of Investment in Capital Goods), BNDES/FINAME (Special Agency fo r 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 C onservation of Natural Resources), Moderfrota (Tractor Fleet Modernization Incentives Program), Moderinfra (Incentives Progra m 
for Irrigation and Storage), PCA (Program for the Construction and Expansion of Warehouses), PRI (Investment Enhancement Prog ram), Procap -Agro (Agricultural 
Cooperatives Capitalization Program), Prodecoop (Cooperative Development Program for the Enhancement of Agricultural Value Ad ded), Pronamp (Medium -Scale 
Agricultural Producer Support Program), and Rural Savings, Mandatory Resour ces 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 fo r 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 -07-2019 TO 30 -06-2020  
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  
Orange  88,995  88,995 2,114,017 4.21% 0 (de minimis)   
Non-product -specific AMS  (from ST/DS:9)  1,285,543 145,313,478 0.88%  0 (de minimis )  
TOTAL  0   
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- 7 - Supporting Table DS:6  
DOMESTIC SUPPORT : BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2019 TO 30 -06-2020  
Product -Specific Aggregate Measurements of Support: Non -Exempt Direct Payments  
Description 
of basic 
products  Reporting Year  Measure Types  Applied 
administered 
price  
 
 
 
USD External 
reference 
price 
(generally 
from AGST)  
 
USD Eligible 
production  Total price  
related direct 
payments  
((4-5)*6)  
 
 
USD,  thousand  Other non 
exempt direct 
payments  
 
 
 
USD,  thousand  Associated 
fees/levies  
 
 
 
 
USD,  thousand  Total direct 
payment 
(7+8 -9) 
 
 
 
USD,  thousand  Data 
Sources  Note  
Type  From  To 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11  
Orange  AY 01-07-19 30-06-20 Agricultural Products' 
Sale Option Private 
Premium (PEPRO)      88,995  88,995 Ministry of 
Agriculture, 
Livestock 
and Food 
Supply 
(MAPA)   
Total 
Orange            88,995   
 
  
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- 8 - Supporting Table DS:7  
DOMESTIC  SUPPORT: BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2019 TO 30 -06-2020  
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 
Orange           88,995 88,995   
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 St ates or Regions.  
  
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- 9 - Supporting Table DS:9  
DOMESTIC  SUPPORT: BRAZIL  
REPORTING PERIOD: AGRICULTURAL YEAR FROM 01 -07-2019 TO 30 -06-2020  
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 01-07-19 30-06-20  738,138  738,138 National 
Treasure  (1) 
Insurance Programs  CY 01-01-20 31-12-20 547,405   547,405 General 
Budget  (2) 
TOTAL  1,285,543  
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 G uarantee Programme (PROAGRO).  
 
 
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