The government of Pará presented details of ordinance No. 6143/2023, which establishes the Dendê Plant Transit Guide (GTV) in the state, with the aim of implementing a Traceability Policy in the oil palm production chain. This measure establishes the mandatory registration of areas where the fruit is grown, processed and transported in fresh bunches. The initiative emerged from a joint effort that brought together various public players, family farming organizations and the production sector, with the aim of implementing actions that strengthen collaboration between the partner institutions.
To provide more details on the measure, the Pará State Agricultural Defense Agency (Adepará) held a meeting on Tuesday morning (6), attended by government institutions, oil palm producing companies and family farming organizations.
One of the points highlighted during the event was the obligation to register all the links in the production chain. "This information is of the utmost importance so that Adepará can verify situations related to health and phytosanitary surveillance, the environment, among others, and thus prepare the production sector to meet the requirements of international agreements aimed at combating deforestation within production chains," said Lucionila Pimentel, director of plant protection and inspection, adding that an official database will be set up for the Dendê production chain, in the Agricultural Management System (SIGEAGRO).
Lucionila explains that the GTV will be issued based on the information in the register and will accompany the cargo from the origin of the raw material to its final destination, disciplining and controlling the transit of fresh fruit bunches
Adepará's management group, made up of officials from the Agency, also met with representatives from the main oil palm producing municipalities to build agendas in the municipalities to define actions aimed at implementing the public policy of traceability in the oil palm production chain.
"It is essential to set up a diversified management group, made up of plant protection officials, to address the three pillars of the policy's implementation: phytosanitary education, inspection and registration. This group will work in the various municipalities of Pará, in close collaboration with other state institutions," said Joselena Tavares, the agency's plant inspection and classification manager.
In Pará, oil palm production stands at 2.8 million tons - the largest volume in Brazil. According to the State Secretariat for Family Agriculture, the chain drives agribusiness in the Acará Valley, where the main producing municipalities are located, and is the largest oil palm producing region in the country, responsible for 2,500 hectares planted with the fruit, generating direct and indirect jobs.
Fábio Pacheco, vice-president of ABRAPALMA, says that the traceability policy for the oil palm production chain is a long-awaited demand from the production sector and that it could help combat the illegal trade in oil palm. In addition, the tool promises to bring greater transparency to the production chain.
"Maintaining inspection, knowing the origin, having a good register of our producers, identifying any phytosanitary problems that these producers may face, including the processors, is fundamental to guaranteeing the future and sustainability of this sector, which is so crucial in this energy transition, which has been discussed in Brazil for a long time and is becoming increasingly important in the world, since producing energy from renewable sources is a global necessity. This way, the sector can evolve even further and become a major player in the Cop 30, with a much more structured chain with the implementation of the GTV," he concluded.
Grupo BBF (Brasil BioFuels), the largest palm oil producer in Latin America, took part in Tuesday's meeting. "We understand the need to adopt measures to regulate the oil palm production chain. Currently, Grupo BBF is one of the main palm producers in Pará, with more than 60,000 hectares under cultivation and the encouragement of more than 450 farmers who are part of the company's Family Farming Program," said Fábio Pacheco, the group's agricultural director. "We congratulate the joint efforts of the coalition and the state government so that Pará can continue to be a benchmark in oil palm production in Brazil," he added.
Founded in 2008, the company has a cultivated area of over 75,000 hectares and a production capacity of around 200,000 tons/year of oil. grupo BBF is a pioneer in creating sustainable solutions for generating renewable energy in isolated systems, with thermoelectric plants powered by biofuels produced in the region. Its agricultural activity recovers areas that were degraded until 2007 in the Amazon, following the Oil Palm Agroecological Zoning (ZAE), approved by Decree 7.172 of the Federal Government, of May 7, 2010.
With an integrated business model in which it operates from the beginning to the end of the value chain - from sustainable oil palm cultivation, crude oil extraction, biofuel production, biotechnology and renewable energy generation - the group has assets totaling around R$2.2 billion and activities generating more than 6,000 direct jobs in the northern region of Brazil in its area of operation, in the states of Acre, Amazonas, Rondônia, Roraima and Pará. It has 38 thermoelectric plants (25 in operation and 13 under implementation), 3 oil palm crushing units, a soybean extruder and a biodiesel industry.
The company is expanding its supply of biofuels and has signed partnerships to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and Green Diesel (RD), also called green diesel. The new sustainable fuels will be produced from 2026 at the country's first Biorefinery, currently under construction in the Manaus Free Trade Zone. Tuesday's event was attended by the director of plant defense, Lucionila Pimentel; the deputy secretary of public security, Luciano de Oliveira; the director of family farming at the State Secretariat for Family Farming (SEAF), Magnaldo Meneses; the vice-president of Abrapalma and agricultural director of Grupo BBF, Fábio Pacheco; Ivaldo Almada, from the Federation of Rural Workers and Family Farmers of the State of Pará (FETAGRI-PA) and the representative of the State Secretariat for Indigenous Peoples (SEPI), Fábio Pereira de Oliveiras.
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