Brazil: Nesting pineapple production in Chapada Diamantina stands out

Published Aug 8, 2022

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The Salubrinho settlement in Brazil, which covers 838.4 hectares and is home to 40 families who benefited from agrarian reform, is expecting to harvest 100 tons of pineapple in the next two years. Located in the Chapada Diamantina region, the settlement also grows cassava, beans, oranges, lemons, mangoes, and is introducing passion fruit cultivation, which has the potential to increase profitability due to its shorter production cycle. Farmers in the settlement face challenges in selling pineapples due to the long cultivation period, but expect the release of the State Forest Registry of Rural Properties to allow them to access a program to improve their plantations.

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The Salubrinho settlement, located in the municipality of Andaraí, in the region of Chapada Diamantina (BA), expects to harvest 100 tons of pineapple in the biennium of 2022 and 2023. The harvest starts this month. Among the 40 families benefiting from the agrarian reform in this area, 13 are dedicated to the cultivation of the fruit that takes 14 months to produce. With 838.4 hectares of land, Salubrinho also produces cassava, beans, oranges, lemons and mangoes. Currently, passion fruit cultivation is introduced in the settlement, which produces fruits four times a year and, therefore, has the potential to increase the profitability of families. The settler Gilberto Oliveira alone harvests between 30 and 40 thousand units of pineapple annually. This year, the farmer also decided to bet on passion fruit and planted a hectare of the fruit that is not yet at the point of harvest on his plot. At the height of the pineapple harvest, Oliveira says that he sells trucks of the fruit to ...

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