Brazil: Embrapa develops actions to produce cocoa native to the Amazon

Published 2024년 2월 1일

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Embrapa Acre is spearheading the 'Cacau Nativo' project in Boca do Acre, Amazon, to boost native cocoa production and identify its unique qualities. The project will assist producers in establishing plantations on dry land and floodplains, and aims to register the product for Geographical Indication (GI). The initiative is expected to enhance product quality, stabilize production, and increase local community income. The article also highlights the cocoa exploitation in the Camicuã indigenous land, benefiting many riverside producers and aiding forest preservation. However, the Ukraine war has reduced demand for Purus cocoa as German chocolate industries, the main buyers, have cut production.

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A team from Embrapa Acre was in the Amazonian municipality of Boca do Acre (AM), on the state border, at the end of January, to carry out actions under the “Cacau Nativo” project, carried out in partnership with the Agroextractive Cooperative of Mapiá and Médio Purus ( Cooperate). The initiative's objectives are the development and validation of technologies to increase the production of native cocoa and the identification, through laboratory analysis, of the differentiated quality characteristics linked to the origin of native cocoa produced in riverside communities on the Purus. Currently, in the Boca do Acre region, native cocoa extraction is carried out in floodplain areas, an aspect that makes it difficult to collect the fruits during times of major flooding of the Purus River. “With the project’s actions, in addition to intensifying plant management in floodplain areas, we will support producers in implementing plantations on dry land. Cocoa will be planted as a component of ...

Source: Embrapa