Pará, Brazil wants to encourage cassava production and install starch
Cassava
Brazil
Published Feb 18, 2021
Tridge summary
The effort of the rural productive sector in the northeast of Pará to build a starch in the region is getting closer and closer to becoming a reality. With the support of the president of the Faepa System, Carlos Xavier, and state deputy Nilse Pinheiro, presidents of rural unions in the region are visiting rural properties in Paraná and Mato Grosso, observing the high productivity in cassava cultivation.
Original content
The group from Pará, formed by the presidents of the Rural Producers Unions of Augusto Correa, Bragança and Traquateua, Francisco Cunha, Wallailson Guimarães and Benedito Dutra, respectively, also met the EBS industry, a leader in the manufacture of starch shops, where it was welcomed by the commercial director of EBS, Vivaldo Schmöeller. According to a survey by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), agricultural production in Pará in 2019 places the State at the level of the largest national producer of cassava, with 3.7 million tons, and approximately 300 thousand hectares of planted area. In 2017, the United Nations (UN) elected cassava as the food of the 21st century. Also known as manioc, cassava, castelinha and uaipi, the tuberous root originating in South America, continues to be expressively produced in the state of Pará, which in addition to being the largest producer in Brazil, ...
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