Tag: SENAR

News

08/23/2023

SENAR: The Rural School

The Brazilian National Rural Learning Service (SENAR) makes changes in the producers’ life using learning processes offered through courses, training, and technical and managerial assistance. All the services offered by SENAR act in educating men and women in the countryside. SENAR currently operates in Rural Professional Training, Social Promotion, Technical and Management Assistance, secondary-level technical […]

News

04/03/2023

SENAR and the rural family: a partnership that feeds and yields results

The Brazilian National Rural Learning Service (SENAR) provides producers and rural workers with Rural Professional Training, Social Promotion Activities, Secondary Level Technical Education, and Technical and Managerial Assistance for several productive activities. For 30 years, SENAR has provided all these free actions for thousands of Brazilians living in the countryside, with the goal of professionalizing […]

Fruit

03/29/2023

Organic acerola farming changes the life of Brazilian farmers in Piauí

Dedication and persistence are real allies of SENAR‘s Technical and Managerial Assistance (ATeG) to make agricultural production succeed. This is the case of the farmers José Maria Portela and Maria Barbosa da Silva, from Parnaíba city, on the coast of the Piauí state in Northeastern Brazil. After 18 years of working in the field with […]

News

03/06/2023

SENAR’s training program assists Brazilian female farmers

Knowledge is essential for the success of women in any area. In Brazil, women’s participation in the countryside economic sectors has been consolidating over the years, as have their leadership roles. In this sense, the work of Brazil’s National Rural Learning Service (SENAR) is of great importance, developing autonomy and bringing women closer to economic […]

News

02/03/2023

Cheese producer highlights SENAR courses in her path to success

In 2015, Luiz and Vera Lucia de Lima decided to raise Jersey cattle at Estância Rio Branco in Nova Castilho, São Paulo state. Right in the beginning, they were advised by a consultant that they needed to add value to the milk they produced. Vera says that they decided to take on the challenge and […]

Dairy

01/09/2023

Organic cheese production in the Brazilian South is ready to conquer the world

The state of Paraná has a significant cheese production. From the 3 million gallons of milk produced daily, 1.3 million are allocated for cheese production. Combining the creativity of Brazilian farmers with the technical knowledge provided by the Rural Learning Service (SENAR), the activity has become renowned in the national scenario and is ready to […]

News

10/13/2022

Revisiting yerba mate, South America’s heritage

Almost 20 years ago, Ludmila Gallon took the National Rural Learning Service’s (SENAR) course about yerba mate and was delighted. It all happened after she moved to Ilópolis, a city known for the plant’s high level of production. Its name derives from “Ilex paraguariensis” (the scientific name of yerba mate), and “polis” (“city,” in Greek); […]

News

08/12/2022

National Agribusiness Meeting gathers thousands of Brazilian rural leaders

Last Wednesday (August 10th), in Brasília, the National Agribusiness Meeting gathered 3.5 thousand rural producers and leaders, as well as rural unions. The event was an opportunity for Brazilian farmers from all over the country to exchange information and take part in discussions about the sector’s law-making agenda for the next four years. An extensive […]

Dairy

07/20/2022

Meet Brazil’s best artisanal cheeses

On Wednesday (13), the Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock (CNA) awarded the 15 best artisanal cheeses in the country. More than 90 producers took part in the selection with cheeses from 13 states: Bahia, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio […]

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07/13/2022

CNA/SENAR System promotes meeting with agricultural attachés

The Brazilian Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock (CNA) promoted a meeting with agricultural attachés of the group Diplomats of Agriculture in Brazil (DAB) to present the institutional work of the CNA/SENAR System. On July 6, in Brasília, the “DAB & CNA Dialogue” was attended by representatives from 26 embassies. At the opening of the meeting, […]