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Brazil: Minister Rogério Marinho announces works in the Northeast

In Pernambuco and Ceará, affordable housing and irrigation and water security projects were announced


Brazil: Minister Rogério Marinho announces works in the Northeast
The measures were announced by Minister Rogério Marinho on Friday. - Photo: Adalberto Marques / MDR

Oct 17, Brazil: The Ministry of Regional Development ended the week with deliveries and the launch of works in the Northeast. On Friday (16), in Petrolina (PE), the minister of the portfolio, Rogério Marinho, issued a public notice for the completion of the northern area of ​​the Pontal irrigation project.


When ready, the project will irrigate another 4,100 hectares in the semi-arid region of Pernambuco, benefiting small and medium rural producers and generating employment and income. With the southern area of ​​the Pontal Project, which has already been tendered, there will be a total of 7,600 irrigable hectares in the region.


“The issue here at Pontal is the conclusion of a project that started some time ago, precisely Pontal Norte, which will allow another 4 thousand hectares to be irrigated. It is a public perimeter that will be granted to more than 280 small and medium producers ”, said the minister.


"We imagine that this will add, here in Petrolina, the expertise, the experience, the capacity that the local producers already have, something like 12 thousand new jobs", added Marinho, when fulfilling the agenda in the municipality.


Delivery of housing units

Also in Pernambuco, this time in São Lourenço da Mata, metropolitan region of Recife, Rogério Marinho delivered 900 houses to low-income families, in the São Lourenço Housing Complex I, II and III. More than 3,600 people were benefited.


The minister was also in Fortaleza, also to deliver 1,111 affordable housing to families living in areas at risk. Located in the Vicente Pinzon neighbourhood, Residencial Alto da Paz has 61 blocks of four floors and will benefit around 4,500 people.


"Seeing the satisfaction of the owner when receiving the apartment, as we have come to testify, makes everything that is being planned, prepared, worthwhile, because, in the end, the numbers materialize with action with human beings. So, this is what gives meaning to people. actions of public agents, both federal, state and municipal ", said the minister at the event in Fortaleza.


Housing in the Northeast

Between Thursday (15) and Friday (16), 2,511 homes were delivered in the Northeast by the Federal Government. On Thursday, the Minister of Regional Development delivered 500 popular homes in Santo Amaro, Bahia.


“This means the commitment that the Government has to not let works be paralyzed and to face a housing deficit that is a reality in the country. We delivered just over 2,500 units in Bahia, Ceará and Pernambuco in these two days. And this has been a constant in our activity. Every week we are delivering and resuming works ”, added Rogério Marinho.


Integration of São Francisco

In the early evening, still in Fortaleza, the minister participated in a meeting at the Federation of Industries of the State of Ceará to discuss support measures for the development of the Northeast and North.


Marinho announced that the bidding for the Apodi-Salgado Branch was authorized, a project launched 15 years ago, which will take the waters of the North Axis of the São Francisco River Integration Project to municipalities in Ceará, Paraíba and the Rio Grande do Norte.


"We have been making efforts not to stop works, to resume stopped works, we understand that the works belong, in fact, to the Brazilian people, the Brazilian society and not to the government of occasion", said the Minister of Regional Development.


The total value of this undertaking is R $ 1.77 billion, in four years of execution. In all, 750 thousand people in 48 cities in these three states will benefit.

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