With Emater's project, tractor modernizes livestock and lemon planting in Monte Alegre
Project developed by Emater ensured the purchase of the vehicle secured by the Mais Alimentos line with financing from the Bank of the Amazon (Basa)
The rural credit developed by the local office of the Technical Assistance and Rural Extension Company of Pará (Emater) in Monte Alegre, in Baixo Amazonas, worth almost R$ 250 thousand, ensured the acquisition of an advanced technology tractor for the Pedreiro family, from the rural area near the PA-254 highway. The resource was secured by the Mais Alimentos line with financing from the Bank of the Amazon (Basa).
Ana Cleide, 52, and Izaías, 47, work together with their two sons, Welison, 29, and Emerson, 26, on the Fazenda Boa Esperança, in the Community of 28, and at the Sítio Dois Irmãos, in the Vila do 35. Just at Boa Esperança, where the couple resides, there are 30 hectares of Taiti lemon planting and 300 heads of Nelore cattle.
“It will serve to prepare the area, improvise pasture, clean the fence edges. A job that used to take three weeks, with five people spraying and carrying water, now we will be able to do in two days, with a maximum of two people. The reduction in expenses, time, and labor is impressive,” estimates Izaías, who received the machinery on July 12.
For the rural producer, Emater's role is “spot on” and access to technologies is a public policy that promotes citizenship and dignity in the countryside: “Emater is always by our side, helping, facilitating, and not just in the sense of loans: they come here in person, informing about the techniques. When we modernize, we are included in the benefits and comfort that science brings, this is valuing our skin and land,” says Izaías.
The head of the local Emater office in Monte Alegre, Francisco Carlos Lima, an agricultural technician and graduate in Public Management, considers that the action is a recognition of the efforts of a multidisciplinary team that accompanies the daily lives of rural communities and establishes, with families, a relationship beyond public service provision, but of friendship and trust: “It is a story that intertwines us and a harmony that needs to exist. We are satisfied, as much as possible, with what Emater already offers to family farmers and very optimistic for the future, especially due to partnerships, like that of Basa,” he reflects.
Text by Aline Miranda
