Through the actions of the More Income Program in the Field the small producers of the city of Paranaguá have achieved a 15% increase in income since July. With the initiative’s investments, about 40 farmers linked to the Rural Producers Association of Paranaguá (Aprumpar) benefited from computer equipment, collective agroindustry, inputs, among others.
The program seeks to financially support technical projects of formal family agriculture organizations, in line with the Food and Nutrition Security Policy, with a focus on reducing poverty, social inequalities and income aggregation for farmers living in 267 municipalities of Paraná.
The technical projects were selected based on a public notice published in June of last year, with requirements for actions in 12 lines with a maximum value of R $ 250 thousand. In the 2017 edict, 57 projects of associations and cooperatives of Family Agriculture were selected, totaling an investment of R $ 9.03 million.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.