This Decree approves the Irrigated Agriculture Project of São Paulo, through the Fund for Agribusiness Development (The Family Agribusiness Bank FEAP-BANAGRO). It applies within the State territory, through official credit institutions of the State, subject to the existing budget availability. The main objectives of this Project are: to provide increased production and productivity of farmers through the rational use of water resources, through the introduction and improvement of irrigation systems; to encourage the deployment of technology to improve agroecology and sylvo pastoralism production with lower impact on the environment; to minimize the effects of drought in the municipalities and the state's economy, as well as to provide a greater security and stability of income in rural areas; to enable the diversification of production on farms, including encouraging the adoption of the use of integrated production systems, etc.
Brazil · 2014-04-22