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The state of Paraná says no to the genetically modified products
The Paraná is the greatest producing of grains of the country with harvests that gets up to 25,22 million tons, 9,8 million tons of those is of soy. Soy agricultural area production is 4 million hectares that are cultivated by 116 thousand agriculturists. The option for the not genetically modified organism production, stimulated for the Government of the State and chose by the producers, has guaranteed to the state of Paraná an increasing volume of exportations of soy for the whole world markets, with notoroty for the European countries, southwestern Asian and China.
The Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) production is defended by the Government and by the producers as a strategy of maintenance of markets, as a principle of protection to the environment and as a precaution of the risks for the health of the human being.
The public policy of resistance of the state of Paraná to the GMO is a reference in Brazil and in the world. This fact is recognized by governments, Brazilian entities of defense to the consumer, NGO´s in Brasil and international ones such as the Greenpeace, that makes Paraná the example in world-wide campaigns against Genetically Modified Organisms.
The choice of Paraná as a headquarter of MOP 3 and COP 8 Conferences is the recognition of the international community of the position of the State in resistance of Genetically Modified Organisms products and of the absolute priority in the defense and conservation of biodiversity.
The Greenpeace International chose Paraná for its annual meeting:
The “Global Decision Forum”, with the participation of technicians of the whole world in the Campaign of Genetic Engineering, alerts on the risks that involves the production and the consumption of GMO foods.
“The International Greenpeace chose the state of Paraná because of the position adopted by its Government in support the agroecology and the effort of the governor Roberto Requião to keep the state of Paraná a free area of GMO”, justified the agronomist engineer of the Campaign of Genetic Engineering, Ventura Barbeiro, from Greenpeace Brazil.
Arguing that the production of GMO only brings profits for the multinationals of seeds and that takes care of to the interests of the North American producers, the Government of the Paraná defends that “the trend of consumers in the whole world, mainly, in the Europe is to reject processed foods that contains GMO products. The state of Paraná fights to keep the free agricultural production of GMO because it preserves its economic sovereignty, and over all, it guarantees exportations for countries that are banishing the importation of GMO products”.
The Paraná has a specific law that it demands the appropriate packaging of processed foods which contains GMO products which is adopted in defense of the consumers.
The state of Paraná executes one radical policy of defense of the environment that cannot coexist to the ecological disaster that can be generated by the GMO products. Moreover. The precautionary Principle – as long as the GMO produts represent serious risks for the health - recommends that government and producers must condemn Genetically Modified Products ".
The politicy strategy of the Government of the state of Paraná in producing genetically modified soy has its strong point in Paranaguá Port, the biggest public granary Seaport of the world, that does not accept and does not receive genetically modified soy for embarkments for the exterior. This position is the official guarantee for import countries that reject genetically modified soybean.
Modernized and efficient, the Port of Paranaguá embarks all the produced conventional soy from the state of Paraná and it is also the international gully for producers from other regions of Brazil.
The experience of the State of the Paraná is unique in the world when the subject is controling and the fiscalization of OGM culture on a large scale, becoming as a world-wide reference in this area. The control in the 28 Interstate Fixed Ranks of Fiscalization (sanitarian barrier), in the borders with Santa Catarina, São Paulo, and Mato Grosso do Sul, the fiscalization in the establishments that they commercialize agricultural seeds, where it is made the collection of samples of seeds of soy for analytical verification of the genetic origin of the material and the certification of the process of production of seeds, are some examples that disclose the ability of the State in the control of the GMO.
In the 2003/2004, 2004/2005 harvests, the Secretary of Agriculture and Supplying executed a Plan of Action: USE OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED SOYBEAN IN THE STATE OF the PARANÁ, to guide the formularization of public policy that refers to the possibilities of management of the coexistence of the conventional soy and of genetically modified one, to determine the percentage and the space distribution of the areas with Genetically Modified Soybean to elaborate a map of the production of genetically modified soybean in the State, to justify and to guide the exportation policy of the conventional soy in the Paranaguá SeaPort, greater exportation port of grains in the world, that keeps a permanent fiscalization, being forbidden to allow any genetically modified load that may contain Genetically Modified Products, guaranteeing that all soy embarked in any of its terminals is free of Genetically Modified Organisms.
The results of this plan of action disclose the ability of the State. In 2003/2004 harvest, 8.505 farmings of soy had been sampled. But 32 had presented positive result for GMO, corresponding 504.71 hectares in a totaç of 183.747, 41 fiscalized hectares, that is 0.27% of Paraná territory.
In 2004/2005 harvest 3,250 farmings of soy had been sampled. But 39 had presented positive result for GMO which represents 1.188, 36 hectares of 66.678, 09 hectares were fiscalized or 1.78% of Paraná territory.
For those reasons, the Government of the state of Paraná defends the packaging based on the full identification of the OGM presence lining up itself with the great majority of the importer countries.
Agricultural cooperatives and companies from the Paraná state have guaranteed and conquered markets because they produce non genetically modified soybeans . The same process happens with the companies who abates chickens e
swines, that have the guarantee that they are not fed with processed rations that could contain genetically modified products.
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The resistance of the Paraná to the genetically modified products
Action of the Government of the Paraná against genetically modified products:
- Campaigns to clarify about the economic disadvantages in planting genetically modified grains to the producers.
- Diffusion of information about the risks of the GMO´s to the environment.
- Clarifications on the danger of the use of glifosato in the health and for the environment.
- Spreading briefings about the rejection of GMO products in the world-wide market.
- Distribution to the media of scientific reports on research that certify the risks of the GMO to the environment and the human being health.
- Agreements of commercial interchange and cooperation with regions
in other countries that declares free zones of GMO.
- Approval of the state law that demands the packaging for processed foods
with GMO products.
- Prohibition of embarkments in the Paranaguá Sea Port of genetically modified soybean.
- Support on the application of the identification of embarkments of the genetically modified products with the assignment “CONTÉM” which in English means that the product contains the GMO soybean.
- Protection of the national sovereignty in the production of conventional soy to prevent the economic dependence to multinational companies of
genetically modified seeds.
- Conviction of the attempts of the introduction of “suicidal seeds”.
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