Brazil: Project supports acaí production in the Tarauacá-Envira region

Published 2022년 5월 3일

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The "Rational Cultivation of Açaizeiro" project has been launched by Embrapa Acre in partnership with various stakeholders to enhance the production of açaí in the Tarauacá-Envira Region. Running for two years, the project is part of a larger initiative focusing on the bioeconomy and sociobiodiversity of key production chains in family farming within the Amazon and Cerrado biomes. The project aims to benefit 100 rural families by transferring technology, improving production systems, and enhancing the forest as an alternative income source. It also seeks to harmonize extractive production with environmental conservation, promoting sustainable production chains and generating new business opportunities within the bioeconomy context.

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In April, Embrapa Acre started the “Rational Cultivation of Açaizeiro” project, developed in the Tarauacá-Envira Region, in partnership with family producers, extractivists, technicians from the Technical Assistance and Rural Extension Company of Acre (Emater) and secretariats agriculture in the state and in the municipalities of Feijó and Tarauacá. Effective for two years, the initiative is one of the 11 projects that are part of the project "Bioeconomy and sociobiodiversity of important production chains in family farming, with an emphasis on the Cerrado and Amazon biomes", which aims to support the structuring, strengthening and improvement of various production chains in the Amazon and Cerrado biomes. With the potential to benefit 100 rural families, the project has technology transfer actions, focusing on improving the single açaí (Euterpe precatoria) and clump açaí (Euterpe oleracea) production systems. The Work Plan includes activities such as seedling production, ...

Source: Embrapa