Emater delivers Family Agriculture Registration to over 80 quilombola families in Monte Alegre
The CAF ensures access to public policies, such as home ownership, through the National Rural Housing Program
More than 80 families from the Quilombo de Passagem, located 87 kilometers from the municipal seat of Monte Alegre, a municipality in western Pará, were benefited this week with the delivery of the Environmental Registration of Family Agriculture (CAF) and 245 Family Agriculture Producer Cards. The benefits delivered by the Government of Pará, through the Technical Assistance and Rural Extension Company (Emater), ensure quilombolas' access to the process of acquiring their own homes through the National Rural Housing Program (PNHR) of the Federal Government.
According to the president of the Association of Remnants of the Quilombo de Passagem, Haroldo dos Santos, for almost ten years the residents have been assisted by Emater-Pará, which monitors the main activities in the territory, such as raising chickens and pigs, planting cassava, producing flour and rapadura, and collecting açaí.
“This partnership between Emater and our Quilombo started in 2017, when the first family agriculture registrations were issued for us. We have always been very well attended, and we have always had the necessary support and assistance to improve our productivity and our quality of life. Whenever we needed, Emater helped us,” said Haroldo dos Santos.
Guaranteed Rights - The supervisor of Emater in the Middle Amazon, Alain Xavier, reported that the goal was to bring the documents to the traditional people of the Quilombo de Passagem, so they can access public policies and improve their income and quality of life.
“After this work we did to issue CAF in the Quilombo de Passagem, they will be able to access various benefits, especially the PNHR, which will grant them the right to acquire their own homes. They already have access to other benefits, such as the Food Acquisition Program (PAA), and thus, with new CAFs, they will increasingly see their rights coming into their territories,” he emphasized.
According to Alain Xavier, actions like this in the region result from a historical work done by Emater, which reinforces the commitments of the Government of Pará. "In Alenquer, we have been working for over 30 years in another quilombo, Pacoval, one of the oldest and largest in our State. We, from Emater, are always providing technical assistance and rural extension, so that these populations have dignified access to various public policies,” he added.
Emater-Pará maintains the Policy of Diffuse and Collective Rights, established through Ordinance No. 0456/2023, dated July 5, 2023, and implemented on July 10 of the same year, specifying policies of equity in gender, race, and ethnicity relations as priorities for the company to implement general guidelines, as well as providing technical assistance and rural extension services to indigenous peoples, quilombola communities, and women, among other segments.
