In a collective effort, Emater documents land reform settlers in Senador José Porfírio
Thirty land reform settlers from Senador José Porfírio, in Transamazônica, have just received from the Technical Assistance and Rural Extension Company of the State of Pará (Emater) the foundational document for access to public policies for family farming: the national register of family farming (caf).
With the mobilization of the Association of Family Farmers of the Lajes Settlement Project and the Agrovila Nova Canaã (AAplanc), the registration took place in a collective effort from the early hours of Wednesday (26) until the early morning of Thursday (27), with the presence of teams from the local office of Senador José Porfírio and the regional office of Altamira of Emater within the Lajes settlement, in the Grande Assurini region.
The journey from the headquarters of Senador José Porfírio to the so-called “Pólo II,” where the communities in question are located, involves traveling by road through three other municipalities (Anapu, Vitória do Xingu, and Altamira, sequentially) and crossing by ferry over the Xingu River, totaling almost 300 km.
With the caf in hand, families should have access, starting early next year, to rural credit of up to R$ 12,000 per individual, through projects developed by Emater under the National Program for Oriented Productive Microcredit (PNMPO) with the Bank of the Amazon (Basa) regarding the cocoa production chain.
“Thank God, in the collective effort, everyone was attended to. In fact, Emater's expectation for rural credit by the dawn of 2026 is an immediate amount of around R$ 600,000, corresponding to the demand of at least 50 families from the so-called ‘Pólo II’ of the Grande Assurini region of Senador José Porfírio,” announces the regional supervisor of Emater in Altamira, agricultural technician and agronomist Júlio Albuquerque.
The Manager emphasizes the importance of Emater's on-site service in more remote rural areas: “It is about bringing the State Government in a concrete and effective way to the grassroots. I dare to quote a phrase from Lair Ribeiro [Brazilian writer and doctor]: ‘Intention without action is illusion!’. This is a real action from Emater, which demonstrates the importance of Emater's existence in the field,” he says.
Text: Aline Miranda
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