CPI will designate MST as a major food producer, Pimenta says

During a visit to the 4th Agricultural Reform Fair promoted by the Landless Agricultural Workers Movement (MST), the Minister of the Secretariat for Social Communications of the Presidency of the Republic, Paulo Pimenta (PT), said this Sunday (14). The Parliamentary Inquiry (CPI) launched in the Chamber of Deputies investigating the social movement at the end of April will show that MST is one of the largest food producers in the country.

Pimenta said he was not concerned that the opposition might use the CPI to attack the government. “I’m not worried, on the contrary. I think many people don’t know the MST as the largest producer of organic rice in Latin America, the MST as a great producer of food, food,” he said in an interview at the Parque da Água Branca in the capital of São Paulo, where the fair takes place.

“The CPI will be a great opportunity for Brazil to get to know the MST. The MST will have more prestige, become bigger, more visible and more admired from this CPI,” he added.

The minister pointed out that the MST fair is a demonstration of the production capacity of healthy food by producers associated with the movement as a result of the agrarian reform. “This fair offers 1,600 items, an impressive variety, quality food at a fair price and the production of food that the Brazilian people need.”

Pimenta also said the current federal government is pluralistic, with space for both commercial farming and family farming. “We will work for what is best for Brazil and the Brazilian people. In our project there is space for family farming and commercial operations. That contradiction doesn’t exist and occasional noises, those who live in democracy know that this is part of the political game, the democratic game,” he said.

Speaking on the main stage of the fair, the minister said that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s message was to reaffirm the government’s commitment to ending hunger in the country. “The message is to give back to the Brazilian people the right to eat three meals a day. It is not possible for a rich country, a country like ours, to live with a reality where every day more than 30 million people go hungry and tens of millions more do not know what they will eat the next day.”

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