
Itinerant action in Amapá serves communities from Tuesday (20) to Friday (23), focusing on women from family farming and traditional populations.
Residents of riverside communities in Mazagão, in Amapá, will receive free public services and issuance of documents from August 20th to 23rd, with a focus on women in family farming and traditional populations.
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Itinerant collectives bring public services to difficult-to-access areas in the Amazon region.
Residents of riverside communities in the municipality of Mazagão, in Amapá, will receive free public services from Tuesday (20) to Friday (23) during the Rural Worker Documentation Task Force.
The action offers health care, issuance of documents, social security guidance, rural credit, family farming and the environment.
The program starts on Tuesday (20) in the Cafezal do Rio Preto community. In the following days, the itinerant task force passes through six other locations:
Tuesday (20): Cafezal do Rio Preto community;
Wednesday (21): Rio Ajuruxi and Furo do Maracá communities;
Thursday (22): Rio Maracá and Rio Navio communities;
Friday (23): Curuçá and Soldado communities.
Services take place from 8am to 5pm, with an estimated reception of around 300 people per day. The main objective is to guarantee access to basic documentation and social programs, focusing on women in family farming, agrarian reform settlers, quilombolas, fisherwomen, extractivists, indigenous people and riverside communities.
“The joint effort seeks to facilitate free access to documentation and public policies, especially for women in family farming, agrarian reform settlers, quilombolas, artisanal fisherwomen, extractivists, indigenous people and riverside communities”, explains the superintendent of the Ministry of Agrarian Development in Amapá, Rosimary Ribeiro.
The National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (Incra) will issue rural documents — such as the National Family Farming Registry (CAF), the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) and the Use Concession (CCU) — in addition to registry updates. The Federal Revenue Service will regularize the CPF, update data and consult the registration status.
In the financial and business sector, the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (Sebrae) will provide guidance on management and sales in family farming.
Caixa Econômica Federal and Banco da Amazônia will answer questions about financing and rural credit, such as the National Program for Strengthening Family Agriculture (Pronaf). The Amapá Community Development Institute (Idecom) will also support rural production.
Other services offered include:
Port Authority: regularization of boats and navigation licenses;
CRAS and Cadastro Único: registration and updating of data for federal government social programs;
Environment (IMMAM): guidance on licensing and environmental control;
Health: administration of vaccines and issuance or updating of the Unified Health System (SUS) card.
The initiative is carried out by the Federal Superintendency of Agrarian Development and Family Farming in Amapá (SFDA-AP), in partnership with Incra and Sebrae.

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