The challenges of rural financing in Brazil
Listen to an interview with Rádio Jovem Pan News Piracicaba about the challenges of rural financing in Brazil. Journalist Izabela Machado interviewed Leonardo Cotta Pereira, Head of Corporate at the firm, who highlighted some points on the subject. According to Leonardo, several risk factors make it difficult for farmers to access rural credit, including the […]
Challenges and prospects for rural producers: a significant increase in requests for judicial recovery
What factors can lead rural producers to file for judicial reorganization? According to Leonardo Ribeiro Dias, head of our Litigation, Arbitration and Insolvency department, external factors such as El Niño have caused damage to crops in terms of productivity, as well as generating variations in commodity prices and selectivity in the availability of credit. However, […]
Agricultural pesticides: judgment on tax benefits will be taken to the STF’s plenary session
STF Justice André Mendonça asked for a ruling on the case that analyzes the maintenance of exemptions and incentives for various types of pesticides. As a result, the score, which had been in favor of agribusiness by 4 votes, was reset to zero, and the Justices rectified their votes in the physical plenary session. The […]
Financing agribusiness
What are the main obstacles between agricultural production and credit? More than 90% of producers are individuals, according to Brazil’s latest Agricultural Census. On the other hand, the granting of credit usually requires certain bureaucratic requirements, such as tax compliance and the formal structuring of the company. Taking these points into account, it’s clear that […]
Corporate structuring in agribusiness: alternatives for accessing credit in Brazil
Brazil’s latest Agricultural Census presents a very interesting picture of financing in Brazilian agribusiness in recent years, allowing a critical reading of access to financial resources and offering important conclusions and lessons regarding the obstacles between production and credit. One of the tables in the census shows a challenging scenario: only 15.5% of producers accessed financing credits in […]
GRI Agro interview: “Institutionalizing producers expands access to credit in agribusiness”
Access to credit is one of the main challenges facing agribusiness, limiting the sector’s growth and competitiveness. Structuring a corporate model suited to agribusiness practices could be a solution to making credit cheaper and more accessible to producers. One of the major obstacles to obtaining credit is the lack of reliability in the information provided […]
Judicial reorganization: crop failure causes claims to skyrocket in 2023
Leonardo Ribeiro Dias, head of our litigation, arbitration and insolvency department, was interviewed live on Canal Rural’s Mercado & Cia program, where he discussed the crop failure and the increase in requests for judicial recovery by rural producers. During the conversation with journalist Pryscilla Paiva, Leonardo explained, among other things, how the judicial recovery process […]
Tax reform and agribusiness
In Brazil’s economic panorama, agribusiness occupies a highly important place. According to data from the Center for Advanced Studies in Applied Economics (Cepea), the sector should be responsible for around 24.4% of the country’s GDP in 2023, with approximately R$2.63 trillion. Because of its importance, the impacts of tax reform on the sector are being […]
Agribusiness: what will change with the Tax Reform?
In the Brazilian economic panorama, agribusiness occupies a highly relevant space. This statement is based on data from the Center for Advanced Studies in Applied Economics – CEPEA, which estimates that the sector will be responsible for around 24.4% of the country’s GDP by 2023, which represents approximately R$2.63 trillion. It is precisely because of […]
Succession in the agro-industrial enterprise
The article “Succession in the agro-industrial enterprise”, by Leonardo Cotta Pereira, Head of Corporate Law at Marcos Martins Advogados, is featured on the O Hoje portal. The lawyer comments that agribusiness has been gaining more and more prominence in the world economy and in business activity, requiring its administrators to efficiently manage resources and production […]
