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05/31/2013
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World No Tobacco Day: Government is concerned with tobacco growers
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On World No Tobacco Day, an economic reality in Brazil contrasts with the efforts of health services and civil society organizations to combat smoking. According to data from the Tobacco Growers Association of Brazil (Afubra), 200 000 families mostly concentrated in the South, survive the tobacco crop.
Are producers that occupy small areas. According to the Ministry of Agrarian Development (MDA), the government does not abolish these crops. Instead, set up in 2005, the National Diversification in Tobacco Cultivated Areas. The idea is to give options for other sources of income for farmers in that campaigns and actions contribute to reducing the number of smokers.
Brazil is a signatory to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, an international treaty of the World Health Organization (WHO), in which the countries are committed to the adoption of measures in the areas of advertising, sponsorship, health warnings, medical treatment, trade illegal, prices and taxes on cigarettes in order to reduce smoking. The signing took place in Brazil in 2003. The agreement was ratified in 2005, after approval by the Senate. From an economic standpoint, while providing commitments to increase the tax burden on cigarettes, the Convention does not provide for reduction of tobacco fields.
As president of Afubra Romeo Schneider, the options supported by the government are mainly fruit and vegetables. He argues that these products do not provide the same gains to producers than tobacco. "These are products that, if the offer is higher, the price drops. Imagine a large number of families moving in at once," he says. He pointed out that because many properties are located in hilly areas of the South, it is difficult to introduce mechanization and transport the production of subsistence crops. According to Schneider, 50% of tobacco growers in the Rio Grande do Sul, 34% in Santa Catarina and Paraná rest and Northeast.
As president of Afubra the area currently occupied by tobacco fields in each property is small, approximately 2.6 acres of areas with an average size of 16.5 acres. The rest has to be devoted to other crops. According to him, even occupying a smaller footprint than other crops, tobacco ensures greater profitability than them. "The area that tobacco occupies represents 63% of household income," he says. For Schneider, the matter should be conducted with caution due to the social impact for smallholders involved. "We had a lot of opportunities and we flexibility of government. But there is a lot of pressure, especially from civil society organizations.'s A subject that needs to be worked in a rational, unemotional," opines.
In addition to supporting diversity in crops, the government acted in raising taxes on cigarettes. By 2015, the Tax on Industrialized Products (IPI) for importers and manufacturers of the product should reach 60% of the sale value. The forecast is in Decree 7555, 2011, establishes that a gradual increase in the rate. Currently, IPI is 45% of the product value. Besides the percentage incidence of the legislation provides for a value on each packet or box. Today, this cost is between R $ 0.90 and R $ 1.20. According to the coordinator of the IRS audit, Marcelo Fisch, thanks to high taxation, even with the reduction in the number of smokers is expected to grow revenues on the product. "In the last five years there has been an annual reduction of 2% to 3% and yet the collection grown because of increases," he said.
Source: Jb Online
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