Partnership between Mapa and CNA will bring technical assistance to the semi-arid region

Rural producers served by AgroNordeste will have technical and managerial assistance from another partnership between the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Mapa) and the Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock (CNA). An agreement was signed this Wednesday (13) between the National Agency for Technical Assistance and Rural Extension (Anater), linked to Mapa, and the National Rural Learning Service (Senar), part of the CNA structure.

The agreement provides technical and managerial assistance to 17.144 rural establishments in ten states in the Brazilian semi-arid region, included in AgroNordeste - Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Maranhão, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Sergipe, Piauí, Pernambuco and Minas Gerais. The partnership aims to contribute to promoting the region's development, in order to place rural production in the Northeast on the same level as that of central-south Brazil.

Minister Tereza Cristina stated that technical assistance is fundamental for the evolution of Brazilian agriculture and highlighted the importance of the partnership between Anater and Senar. "We are starting with Senar and Anater, but other partners will come. I am sure that it will be a successful project. It is something that in a short space of time will bring results to the families that join the project. I am sure that it is through technical assistance that we will see people leaving the poverty line in rural areas, producing and generating wealth", he said.

The total value of the agreement is R$120.009.485,06, of which R$40.001.500,00 from Anater and R$80.007.985,06 from Senar. The agreement will be valid until December 31, 2021, with the possibility of extension. The presidents of Anater, Ademar Silva Júnior, and the Senar Deliberative Council, João Martins, who also presides over the CNA, signed the agreement. Minister Tereza Cristina and the general director of Senar, Daniel Klüppel Carrara, signed as witnesses to the act.

According to the president of the CNA, technical assistance is the institution's priority. "We are going to make a great revolution in rural areas, especially in the Northeast, which needs it so much. We have 17 million people living in rural areas in the Northeast and we are going to do work that will make us proud", stated João Martins.

The president of Anater highlighted the importance of the partnership with Senar to provide technical and managerial assistance to rural producers in the semi-arid region. "We know that the results will quickly appear and, more than just working together, we will bring development to such a needy region," he said.

According to the president of Anater, the objective is to make agricultural production in the Brazilian semiarid region competitive. "There's no point in saying that Brazil is the country of agribusiness if we don't help all regions. The Northeast has people who live off the land, and we need to bring technology and knowledge so that small and medium-sized producers in the Northeast can produce on a scale for themselves and for the market in general", he stated.