Ministry of Agriculture is already talking about extending the CAR for a year

The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MAPA) admitted in a statement that it was already known: the government should extend the period of the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) for another year, since there are fewer than 100 days to finish, only about 11% of all Brazilian farms were registered.

Note the MAP was released after a meeting of the ministers of Agriculture, Katia Abreu, and the Environment, Izabella Teixeira, on Tuesday (27/01). The environment minister seems to have liked the admission and the next day (28), the Ministry of the press office of the Environment sent the link  to the Observatory’s Forest Code with the correction of the note, which went on to state that the deadline expires on May 6, 2015.

For the second time, despite the CAR be the responsibility of the MMA, MAPA was it released the latest figures from registration. So far, 575,000 rural properties made the CAR – about 11% of the target of 5.2 million existing properties, according to estimates of the government. According to the Brazilian Forest Service, responsible for registering the property in most states, most CARs are in the North: 202 000, covering 52% of the area of private property estimated by the government. In the region, states such as Mato Grosso and Pará have had their own systems and CAR had been doing for years. The 44,000 Mato Grosso entries are being migrated to the database of the federal government (Sychar) and the government of MT decided to close their system and move to perform registrations using Sychar the Ministry of Environment.

The worst performance was in the Northeast: The region registered properties only 9.5 thousand or 8.9% of its total area. In the Southeast were registered 101 000 properties, of which 38 600 are in São Paulo. They correspond to an area of ​​almost 10 million hectares (17% of total). In the Midwest, 89,000 CARs cover 53% of the area of ​​the region. In the South, 66,000 properties have done the register, totaling 1.8 million hectares (4.3%).

Despite the poor performance of the CAR and the purpose of the meeting of the ministers have been “discuss joint strategies to make more effective adherence to CAR,” the radio campaign and Television commissioned by MMA and is ready since the end of 2014, not yet It has a date to be conveyed. Law  12,651 / 12 (new Forest Code) only allows an extension to the term of the CAR and all the country ‘s property must necessarily be in the register until May 2016.

The two ministers meet again, this time at the Ministry of Environment, 05 February along with state secretaries of agriculture and environment to discuss the water crisis. Also on the agenda will also be the CAR and environmental licensing procedures.

The State Agency reported that Katia Abreu minister  decided to become more agile all procedures necessary to expand the project to support the producer of water. Done in conjunction with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the National Water Agency (ANA), this program aims to preserve springs, recover permanent preservation areas and increase the supply of water.