it provides rd funds to brazilian companies to develop and strengthen input supply chains machinery and equipment for agriculture and the development of food products and processes inovaagro has become the main channel for bndes to deliver rd funds in the sector and accounted for over of a total of about usd million over of inovaagro funding is targeted to livestock fisheries and aquaculture only coffee research is currently supported by tax deductions and embrapa is managing a national consortium to use the coffee fund funcafe