Programa nacional de alimentação escolar (PNAE) em Pombal-PB: orientações para inserção de agricultores familiares.

Abstract

The National School Feeding Program aims to offer healthy, adequate and safe food which respects culture, traditions and healthy eating habits, contributing to the growth and development of students and improving school performance. In June 2009, the amend 11,947 determined that of the total financial resources transferred by FNDE, within the range of the PNAE, at least 30% should be used in the acquisition of foodstuffs directly from family farming and the rural family entrepreneur or its organizations. This work aims to evaluate the conditions for access to the National School Feeding Program (PNAE), as well as to elaborate a plan of facilitated insertion for farmers in the PNAE from the town of Pombal-PB. With regard to the methodology, it is a descriptive and qualitative research, based on documentary analysis to survey the number of rural producers registered with the Special Secretariat for Family Agriculture and Agrarian Development (SEAD), who have DAP (Declaration of Aptitude to Pronaf) and through an open interview with technicians from the Paraibana Research Company, rural extension and land regularization (EMPAER) in the town, in order to highlight the difficulties experienced by farmers that hinder the insertion of these small producers in the school feeding program of the city. As well as, the elaboration of an electronic form that would allow the Executing Entity of the Program to collect data on farmers in the municipality and assist them on how to participate in PNAE there and an information booklet directed to family farmers in Pombal in order to allow, based on the knowledge of the PNAE and how to execute the step-by-step documentary adjustments and their products, new farmers can benefit from being included in the program. As a result, it was noticed that only 3.57% of the total farmers with active PAD are inserted in the municipality's PNAE, which is one of the requirements of the program and becomes even more insignificant when compared to the number of PAD records that is 3,094, of which 63.96% expired and 4.33% canceled. According to data from the FNDE and municipal contributions to the execution of the PNAE, the municipality meets the minimum amount required by law in the purchase of family farming products, having been 52.12%, 40.09% and 35.32% in the years 2018, 2019 and 2020, respectively. However, it is necessary to understand that the PNAE is a public policy that covers the entire national territory, nevertheless, understanding and inserting local family farming contributes to sustainable rural development and the reduction of social problems such as the lack of healthy food.