Pará, Brazil wants to encourage cassava production and install starch

Published 2021년 2월 17일

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The rural productive sector in Pará, northeast Brazil, is moving forward with a plan to establish a starch production facility, backed by the Faepa System and state deputy Nilse Pinheiro. Delegations from the region are scouting rural properties in Paraná and Mato Grosso to learn from their high cassava cultivation productivity. Cassava is a key crop in Pará, being the largest producer in Brazil and the second-largest globally, according to a 2019 IBGE survey. The root is used for various food and industrial applications, including starch, animal feed, and fuel alcohol, highlighting its importance as the 'food of the 21st century' as declared by the UN in 2017.

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The effort of the rural productive sector in the northeast of Pará to build a starch in the region is getting closer and closer to becoming a reality. With the support of the president of the Faepa System, Carlos Xavier, and state deputy Nilse Pinheiro, presidents of rural unions in the region are visiting rural properties in Paraná and Mato Grosso, observing the high productivity in cassava cultivation. The group from Pará, formed by the presidents of the Rural Producers Unions of Augusto Correa, Bragança and Traquateua, Francisco Cunha, Wallailson Guimarães and Benedito Dutra, respectively, also met the EBS industry, a leader in the manufacture of starch shops, where it was welcomed by the commercial director of EBS, Vivaldo Schmöeller. According to a survey by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), agricultural production in Pará in 2019 places the State at the level of the largest national producer of cassava, with 3.7 million tons, and approximately 300 ...

Source: Abam