Brazil: Irrigation transforms Goiás region into fruit growing hub

Published 2024년 4월 21일

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Launched in 2023, the 'Irrigated Fruit Farming of Vão do Paranã' project, a collaborative effort by the Goiás State Department of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, Embrapa Cerrados, and other organizations, aims to foster socioeconomic growth in the Vão do Paranã region, Goiás, through irrigated fruit farming, focusing on crops like mango and passion fruit. Targeting 2,500 agrarian reform families in Flores de Goiás, Formosa, and São João d’Aliança, the initiative offers irrigation kits and technical support to enhance production and income. Starting with 10 families, the project shows promise for rural development and social transformation, leveraging local water resources and market proximity. It has already seen success in passion fruit sales to major distributor Perboni, indicating significant income potential and plans for expansion, including sleeve production in its third year.

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The Vão do Paranã region, in the northeast of Goiás, is preparing to take an important leap in socioeconomic development through fruit production in an irrigated system, with the technical contribution of Embrapa Cerrados (DF). The Unit is a partner in the “Irrigated Fruit Farming of Vão do Paranã” project, launched in 2023 by the Goiás State Department of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Seapa/GO). The initiative aims to facilitate the irrigated production of fruits such as mango and passion fruit by 2,500 families of farmers settled under agrarian reform in Flores de Goiás, Formosa and São João d’ Aliança, municipalities supplied by the Paranã River and Ribeirão Porteira dams. Also participating in the project are the São Francisco and Parnaíba Valley Development Company (Codevasf), Emater, Senar and local city halls. Participating farmers receive irrigation kits and espaliers for passion fruit. Each property will have a micro-sprinkler system for 1 hectare of mango and a drip ...

Source: CanalRural