Training for rural producers

On November 24, in partnership with Professor Aroldo Ferreira Lopes Machado from the Agronomy Institute of UFRRJ, REGUA, together with the Municipal Council for Rural Development (CMDR), organized a training session for rural producers from different communities in the municipality of Cachoeiras de Macacu. Representatives from the communities of Vecchi, Serra Queimada, Faraó, São José da Boa Morte, and the Rural Workers and Producers and Family Farming Unions were present. Representatives from the Workers' Health Surveillance Department (from the Municipal Health Department), students from the Postgraduate Program in Plant Science at UFRRJ, and REGUA collaborators were also present. Representing the municipal government were the Municipal Secretary of Agriculture, José Marcos de Gois, and agricultural engineer Beatriz Cordeiro Alcântara Cunha.

Speakers and participants of the event

It was a moment of great information exchange, where many doubts and concerns from rural workers in our region and neighboring regions could be heard and clarified by professionals and researchers specializing in agronomy.