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COMO O PT DESTRUIU A INDÚSTRIA DO CACAU NA BAHIA

382 statements · 1 politicians · June 12, 2026 · 21 min

Statements by Renan Santos. 382 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Income Transfer Policies, Agricultural Policy, Parties and Elections, Health Regulation.

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  1. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: condition Bolsa Família benefits on a work requirement

    People here in the region live on 600 reais from Bolsa Família and don't want to come to work.
  2. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: condition Bolsa Família benefits on a work requirement

    We try to find someone and nobody wants to work.
  3. Renan Santos
    You guys see, right?
  4. Renan Santos
    For

    About: recover cocoa production in Bahia

    I'm going to show you how the PT destroyed cocoa here in Bahia and how we can recover the sector.
    Agricultural Policy → View this statement
  5. Renan Santos
    Look, everyone, he opens it and throws the pulp with the seed over here to ferment.
  6. Renan Santos
    It's really crazy, because it, like, ferments the fruit and you're left with just the little seed.
  7. Desconhecido

    We were doing the cocoa selection.
  8. Desconhecido

    We take the cocoa, sort it and put it in this one here.
  9. Desconhecido

    Then after some time the cocoa starts to bleed.
  10. Desconhecido

    That's when the plant gives off a kind of cocoa secretion.
  11. Desconhecido

    So when it starts to bleed, it's no longer the right time for us to put it up on the barge to dry.
  12. Desconhecido

    And that was the work I did with my dad over the weekend.
  13. Desconhecido

    I took the cocoa in a bucket and carried it up there to dry it.
  14. Renan Santos
    Cool, so basically you remove it from the pulp; with the bleeding it loses what remains of the pulp, leaving only the seed.
  15. Renan Santos
    And then you toss the seed up there.
  16. Renan Santos
    Cool.
  17. Renan Santos
    And you did that on the weekend?
  18. Desconhecido

    I did.
  19. Renan Santos
    You rascal, huh?
  20. Renan Santos
    For

    About: investigate and hold politicians accountable for sabotage of agriculture

    Just so you understand a problem of... I mean, everyone knows, for those... For our long video here, that witch's broom was a disease brought by the PT to try to destroy the cocoa farms, making production not worthwhile.
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  21. Renan Santos
    To understand how much you... It's a fungus, right?
  22. Renan Santos
    How much of your cocoa fruit do you lose because of witch's broom?
  23. Desconhecido

    About 50% here.
  24. Desconhecido

    Neutral

    About: expand CEPLAC's assistance to cocoa crops

    That's because I've been spraying some treatments, some products that help fight the fungus.
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  25. Desconhecido

    Because there are many properties around where the loss is 80%.
  26. Renan Santos
    Wow, if you leave it without applying treatment, you lose practically the entire production.
  27. Desconhecido

    Almost the entire production is lost.
  28. Desconhecido

    For

    About: expand government assistance to the cocoa-growing region

    And the products are very expensive, it's not worth it for us to spray.
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  29. Desconhecido

    to spray the cocoa plantation, or apply to the cocoa plantation.
  30. Desconhecido

    But, because we live on the farm, have an agricultural livelihood, we make the sacrifice to save a bit of the crop.
  31. Renan Santos
    So, this region here of Bahia used to be the world's largest cocoa producer, supplying big companies in Brazil and abroad.
  32. Renan Santos
    This sabotage, basically, destroyed an entire sector.
  33. Renan Santos
    Do you think it's possible to recover the sector here?
  34. Desconhecido

    Yes, it's very possible.
  35. Desconhecido

    because now it's necessary to have someone interested in cocoa production, someone who will come to recover cocoa production.
  36. Renan Santos
    Has Embrapa never acted to solve this witch's broom issue?
  37. Desconhecido

    For

    About: expand CEPLAC's assistance to cocoa crops

    CEPLAC has done a lot for the region, but the much it has done is still little to be able to save the cocoa crop.
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  38. Desconhecido

    So far it still hasn't found a solution, because if it had found one it would have already solved the problem.
  39. Desconhecido

    But the neglect is very great.
  40. Desconhecido

    Cocoa from the southern region was responsible for 60% of Bahia's economy.
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