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The Ministry of Agriculture of Brazil held a meeting, last Monday, with representatives of the Inter American Development Bank (IADB), that will finance, with USD195 million, the implementation of a Programme for the Modernisation and Strengthening of the Agriculture and Livestock Defence (Prodefesa).
The funds will be allocated to the control and eradication of plant pests and animal diseases (foot-and-mouth disease and others), to the improvement of the agriculture and livestock defence, to the institutional strengthening (strengthening of the Brazilian Veterinarian Surveillance and Emergencies System - Sisbravet), and to the implementation of the Technological Park for Agriculture and Livestock Defence - Lanagro de Pedro Leopoldo (MG) and the Risk Evaluation Regional Centre.
Monday, January 29th, 2018/ MAPA/ Brazil.
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