Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries (Timor-Leste)

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries
Portuguese: Ministro da Agricultura e Pescas Tetum: Ministru Agrikultura no Peskas
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Incumbent Marcos da Cruz since 1 July 2023
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
Style	Minister (informal) His Excellency (formal, diplomatic)
Member of	Constitutional Government
Reports to	Prime Minister
Seat	Dili, Timor-Leste
Appointer	President of Timor-Leste (following proposal by the Prime Minister of Timor-Leste )
Inaugural holder	Estanislau da Silva
Formation	20 September 2001
Website	Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries

The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries (Portuguese : Ministro da Agricultura e Pescas, Tetum : Ministru Agrikultura no Peskas) is a senior member of the Constitutional Government of Timor-Leste heading the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.

Functions

Under the Constitution of Timor-Leste, the Minister has the power and the duty:

1. to implement the policy defined for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries;
2. to ensure relations between the Government and the other organs of the State in the area of responsibility of the Ministry. ^[1]

Where the Minister is in charge of the subject matter of a government statute, the Minister is also required, together with the Prime Minister, to sign the statute. ^[1]

Incumbent

The incumbent Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Forestry is Marcos da Cruz. ^{[2] [3]}

List of ministers

The following individuals have been appointed as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries under one or other of its two different titles:

No.	Party		Minister	Portrait	Title	Government (Prime Minister)	Term start	Term end	Term in office
1		Fretilin	Estanislau Aleixo da Silva		Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries	II UNTAET (Alkatiri)	20 September 2001	20 May 2002	5 years, 251 days
					Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries	I Constitutional (Alkatiri)	20 May 2002	10 July 2006
						II Constitutional (Ramos-Horta)	10 July 2006	19 May 2007
2			Francisco Benevides  [ de ]			III Constitutional (da Silva)	19 May 2007	8 August 2007	81 days
3		PD	Mariano Assanami Sabino		Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries	IV Constitutional (Gusmão)	8 August 2007	8 August 2012	7 years, 192 days
						V Constitutional (Gusmão)	8 August 2012	16 February 2015
(1)		Fretilin	Estanislau Aleixo da Silva			VI Constitutional (Araújo)	16 February 2015	15 September 2017	3 years, 126 days
						VII Constitutional (Alkatiri)	15 September 2017	22 June 2018
4		KHUNTO	Joaquim José Gusmão dos Reis Martins			VIII Constitutional (Ruak)	22 June 2018	29 May 2020	1 year, 342 days
5			Pedro dos Reis			VIII Constitutional (Ruak) (restructured)	29 May 2020	1 July 2023	3 years, 33 days
6		CNRT	Marcos da Cruz		Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries, and Forestry	IX Constitutional (Gusmão)	1 July 2023	Incumbent	1 year, 259 days

References

1. "Constitution of Timor-Leste, Section 117" (PDF). Government of Timor-Leste. 20 May 2002. Retrieved 14 January 2022. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
2. Martins, Filomeno (30 June 2023). "The list of structure of IX Constitutional Government announced in Official Gazette". Tatoli . Retrieved 1 July 2023.
3. Sousa, Nelson de (1 July 2023). "PR Horta sei akompaña serbisu IX Governu" [President Horta will accompany the work of the IX Government] (in Tetum). Tatoli. Retrieved 1 July 2023.

External links

Media related to Ministers of Agriculture and Fisheries of East Timor at Wikimedia Commons

• Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries – official site (in Tetum)