This Complementary Law, in line with the State Constitution, lays down the foundations, defines the objectives and institutional competences, provides for resources and establishes the actions and instruments of the State's agricultural policy, concerning agricultural, livestock, forestry, fishing and agro-industrial activities. The policy's objectives are: establish and standardize government actions and instruments aimed at promoting, regulating, inspecting, controlling, evaluating activities and meeting the sector's needs, with a view to ensuring an increase in agricultural production and productivity, the regularity of domestic supply, especially food supply, the profitability of enterprises, price and market stability, consumer protection and the reduction of intra-regional disparities; systematize State actions, so that the various segments linked to agriculture can plan their actions and investments from a medium and long-term perspective; eliminate distortions that affect the socio-economic functions of agriculture to improve living conditions in rural areas; protect the environment, guarantee its rational use and encourage the conservation and recovery of natural resources; promote the decentralization of the execution of public services to support the rural sector, with a view to complementing actions with municipalities and entities representing the various segments of the rural environment, with the latter gradually assuming responsibility for the execution of agricultural policy; stimulate scientific development and favour the use of local production factors; enable the effective participation of all segments of the rural sector in defining the direction of the state's agricultural economy; provide institutional support, particularly for small rural producers and their families; encourage the production, rural productivity, the use of innovative production technology and the rational self-management of the environment.
Brazil · 1992-07-21