This Law, consisting of 27 articles divided into eight Chapters, creates the State Policy for the Development and Expansion of Apiculture and Meliponiculture and establishes the State Programme for Incentive to Apiculture and Meliponiculture (PROAMEL). The coordination of this Policy and the related Programme will be attributed to the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (SEAPI) in accordance with the State Policy of Sustainable Rural Development and with the cooperation of the other organs of the Executive Branch. The objectives of the State Policy are: encourage the development, production and productivity of apiculture and meliponiculture in the State; serve as a foundation for the planning and execution of any activities involving apiculture and meliponiculture; promote research for the development of new technologies for the management of pollinators with increased productivity, quality, added value and maintenance of biodiversity in the context of sustainable agriculture, to facilitate related works; strengthen the productive chain; improve logistics for the processing, use and marketing of products, by-products and services of related activities; encourage the genetic improvement, through selection, of Africanized and native bees; stimulate this activity with rural producers as a means of diversification and optimization of natural resources; improve laboratories to carry out analyzes on these products and monitor their state of health; control bee diseases, through sanitary actions and epidemiological surveillance, under the Department of Agricultural and Livestock Protection (DDA/SEAPI); create the Fund for the Development of Apiculture and Meliponicultura (Fundomel).
Brazil · 2018-05-09