Embrapa trains slanderers and rural producers to produce Brazilian vanilla

Published 2022년 10월 3일

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Brazil, with its diverse vanilla species and potential high market price, presents a significant opportunity for farmers and collectors, including those from quilombo communities in Goiás. A workshop aimed at enhancing production techniques and conservation of vanilla diversity was attended by representatives from various stakeholder groups. The workshop highlighted the importance of manual pollination, conservation of genetic resources, and the complex process of vanilla production and curing. For Márcio Moraes, the course was an opportunity to stimulate more vanilla production in the Midwest, believing it to be suitable for small, large, and micro landowners. The article also emphasizes the potential income to be earned from vanilla, given its high market value, and the importance of careful processing to maintain the aroma and value of the bean.

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Vanilla (Vanilla spp.) is one of the most coveted spices in the gastronomic world. With an attractive market, which pays more than R$ 50.00 for each bean, the product can open a new niche for Brazilian farmers and collectors. This is because Brazil is the country with the greatest diversity of vanillas in the world, with 37 species identified. Among the audiences who can earn extra income from the sale of vanilla are the calungas (or kalungas, descendants of enslaved Africans). Eight representatives of communities in Goiás, together with small producers, professors of the agronomy course, traders and rural extension technicians, exchanged experiences in the workshop Production of Vanillas and its Potentialities. Deusanir Francisco da Conceição and Arnaldo Santo Rosa are two slanderers from Quilombo Vai do Moleque, Goiás, who participated for the first time in a course aimed at techniques and cultural practices aimed at the production of vanilla. Enthusiastic about the opportunity ...

Source: Embrapa