Brazil: Banco do Nordeste finances acai agroindustry in southern Bahia

The agroindustry Naturê do Brasil received R$13.5 million in financing from Banco do Nordeste (BNB) to set up an industrial unit for processing açaí in the municipality of Una, in the south of Bahia. With resources from the Constitutional Fund for Financing the Northeast (FNE), the investments will be used for working capital, civil construction, acquisition of domestic machinery and equipment, furniture, utensils, as well as studies and projects. Owners of a farm that has grown coffee, açaí, papaya and pepper for over 30 years, the partners use cutting-edge technology to manage their crops, which motivated them to add value to the farm, completing the açaí production chain. The agroindustry will consist of an industrial unit measuring almost four thousand square meters to be built on an area of thirty thousand square meters, and the expectation is that activities will begin in about a year and a half. The fruit produced on the farm will become raw material for the new industry, ...