Lula announces the creation of a registry of idle land in Brazil to prevent invasions

The President of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, has once again insisted that it will not be necessary to invade land and that the Government, together with local authorities, will create a kind of registry of all those vacant lots and lands that are not being worked so that Anyone who wants to can access them.

“It is not even necessary that there be more land invasions,” Lula said on Tuesday during an event to announce a new sustainable land policy plan. “We are going to make a registry of the unproductive lands of this country (…) so that people can work the fields without the need for disputes,” he pointed out.

Lula explained that the Brazilian government, through the National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform (Incra) and the state agrarian offices, can register all wastelands. “It is not necessary to invade so that after three or four years you discover that these are lands that do not produce,” he insisted.

“We do not need to deforest anything to raise more cattle, to plant more soybeans. We have the possibility of recovering millions of hectares of degraded land that this country has,” said Lula, who has warned those who believe that his government will act in an “ideological” way “.

“Those who think that the government is going to do more or less because it has problems or not with Brazilian agribusiness are delusional. The leader of a responsible government does not act like that. The leader of a responsible government does not have that smallness of insulting and instilling hatred between people,” he said.

President Lula already stressed a week ago that it would not be necessary to invade land during his administration, at the same time that he announced his intention to launch an agrarian reform that would please all sectors.

After a series of invasions that took place at the beginning of the year by the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST), Lula tries to accommodate the demands of one of his main partners and not to displease the agribusiness sector excessively due to its strong presence in a Congress.