Emater assists extractivists from Santo Antônio do Tauá with access to credit and documentation
The Technical Assistance and Rural Extension Company (Emater) has been supporting extractivist workers from the Santa Maria do Ubintuba community
With the mediation of the local office of the Technical Assistance and Rural Extension Company of Pará (Emater) in Santo Antônio do Tauá, in the Guamá region, 300 extractivists from the Santa Maria do Ubintuba community, on the Ramal dos Borralhos, at Km 23 of the Pa-140 highway, are preparing to receive, still this year, rural credit from the Acredita line of the Bank of the Amazon (Basa).
The proposals for individual contracts average R$ 10,000, to be applied in the extractivism of native açaí from the areas of Furo da Laura, Igarapé Patauateua, and Rio Ubintuba, horticulture focusing on leafy vegetables (such as green onions) and planting and processing cassava.
Access to public financing for activities is part of a set of actions intensified this May by Emater, in support of the Association of Residents and Farmers of Santa Maria do Ubintuba (Aspamub), directly representing at least 417 families.
On the 16th of this month, the collective rural environmental registration (car) and 42 individual national family agriculture registrations (cafs) were delivered. Also under the partnership with Emater, the territory was titled last year by the Land Institute of Pará (Iterpa) as a State Project for Sustainable Settlement (Peas).
“Emater is a government agency very present in our Community. I have nothing to complain about. The Emater team has always been present in our achievements: attentive to our definitive titling, issuing car and caf, holding several meetings. It is the fundamental importance of a technician guiding our farmer,” summarizes the president of Aspamub, Elielson Soares.
For the head of the local Emater office in Santo Antônio do Tauá, aquaculture and fishing technician Arlindo Silva Júnior, Emater's work with traditional populations in the municipality is guided by a schedule and goals: “We are working towards, by the end of 2025, participating in the titling, by Iterpa, of two other communities, with Emater's assistance in the same way as Santa Maria: São Tomé and Santo Amaro. In the community of Dos Anjos, which is already titled, we immediately obtained services such as caf, car, and credit,” he explains.
The manager highlights the joint efforts with Basa and the Municipal Secretary of Agriculture and Fishing (Semap): “In our most recent event, we had the presence of the Secretary of Agriculture, Neto Jesus, who reaffirmed his commitment to the community, and with the microfinance agent from Basa, Mário Filho, who has already started preparing credit proposals for those interested. We are all together building the path of sustainable development,” he considers.
Text by Aline Miranda
