Brazil: Emater invests in the multiplication and distribution of improved butter bean seeds

Published 2021년 1월 18일

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A partnership between Emater Pará and Embrapa Amazônia Oriental has led to the improvement of the traditional 'butter bean' variety of cowpea in the Lower Amazon region of Brazil. The project, which started seven years ago, involves collecting and classifying specimens to produce improved seeds, some of which have been distributed to producers in Monte Alegre in 2019. Ten producers from various municipalities will receive these improved seeds and technical assistance in 2021, with the aim of increasing production and making the improved bean more widely available. The project is part of Emater's Manteiguinha Bean Seed Production Program.

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Tradition in the cuisine of the Middle and Lower Amazon, the butter is a variety of cowpea beans with very small and soft grains, with fast cooking and unique flavor, which may have been introduced to the region by Italian religious (in Monte Alegre) and Americans (in Santarém) in the 19th century, with their cultivation related to a quilombola tradition. “It tells the story that the Americans brought this seed here to Santarém and started to be multiplied in that region. But over time, these seeds have become uncharacteristic, ”says agronomist Guilherme Saldanha, supervisor at the Pará State Technical Assistance and Rural Extension Office (Emater) in Santarém. The resumption of production of the species in the Lower Amazon, with improved grains and closer to the originals, is being possible thanks to the production of native samples, improved by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) and treated at the Center for Agroecological Training, Technological ...

Source: NoticiasAgricolas