[Gasification] VEGGY OILS IN AMAZON FOREST

Sat Mar 15 07:39:47 CDT 2008

Company will have to generate about 15 jobs right-handers and will have capacity to extract 50 liters of vegetal oils a day. Márcio Vieira for the moment Spreading Equipment of the first miniplant of vegetal oil extration in Manaquiri Manaus - Manaquiri, situated 64 kilometers the southwest of Manaus, in Amazon, city more punished by the strong drought that reached the State in 2005, goes to inaugurate its first industry in 2008. remedies, food and fuel "Faltavam. People had fear of the future. Today, many say that the industry goes to attract investimentos", Antonio Ribeiro counts to the agriculturist Rita Saint, 45, when remembering the estiagem that isolated more 21 cities in Amazon. The miniplant of vegetal oil extration, with inauguration foreseen for March of this year, is resulted of a partnership between Sebrae Amazon and a group of 39 families of agriculturists and collectors of grass and seeds of the communities Falls N'água and Attentive Bom, both the 40 minutes
 of boat of the headquarters of Manaquiri. The city hall supported the partnership, and the money for the construction of the building of the plant and acquisition of machines and equipment was acquired together to the Project Handling of the Natural resources of the Fertile valley (Provárzea). The director-technique of the Sebrae Amazon, Maria Jose Alves Da Silva, who in the last friday (18) led a comitiva of the entity in visit to the communities and the miniplant in Manaquiri, said that the company will have to generate about 15 jobs right-handers and will have capacity for the moment to extract 50 liters of oils from seeds and caroços of andiroba, tucumã, açaí, abacaba and chestnut. The director argues that, although small, the miniplant if presents as a model to be followed by other cities, a time that goes to produce for a market that has national and international amplitude: the improvement of natural products of the Amazônia. "the creation of this industry is a
 historical landmark for the people of Manaquiri, that since 2005 comes fighting per better days. It is also an example to be followed by other amazonenses cities. according to mayor of Manaquiri, Jair Souto, more than the 20 associations of agricultural producers of the cities are contented with the inauguration of the plant. It discloses that the mini-plant will be managed by a composed managing committee for representatives of the city hall, Cooperative of Produtores and Beneficiadores de Medicinal Plantas, of Fitoterápicos and Fitocosméticos in Manaquiri (Coopfitos) and Sebrae Amazon. "the mini-plant and the Coopfitos are resulted of a success partnership and certainly it goes to help to develop the sector of commerce and services of the city. We wait that the miniplant is the first one of a series of companies installed in Manaquiri, the mayor said. The Coopfitos is integrated by 39 families of the communities Falls Nágua and Attentive Bom. The entity was born inside
 of the project Sectorial 'Desenvolvimento of Fitoterápicos/Fitocosméticos in Manaquiri', tied with the Unit of Collective Attendance of Agronegócios I (UACA) of the Sebrae Amazon. By means of the project, that lasted three years (2005-2007), the agriculturists had received ten courses from qualification and training and had participated of national winds. In accordance with the leader of the UACA, Wanderléia Teixeira, the agriculturists despertaram for the business-oriented chances that the vegetal oil extration is capable to generate. It informs that in three years of execution of the project they had been invested to R$ 1,6 million more than, adding the resources of the Sebrae, city hall of Manaquiri and Provárzea. "In these three years, we work to organize the collectors. They had that to recognize that valley the penalty to work in group. The miniplant and the Coopfitos had been resulted of this work. The city hall was basic in this process, because in it supported
 them since the beginning. Now, we have a new project to give continuity to the work, Wanderléia Teixeira said. The new project will have to be executed until the 2010 end and goes to give emphasis, according to leader of the UACA, to the questions related to the commercialization and production of essential oils. "We go to keep the work to improve the product quality and to extend the actions of commerce, since the production will be made large-scale with the plant, it says. The secretary of agricultural production of Manaquiri discloses that the producers still are producing of artisan form and the annual profit added das 39 families if approaches to R$ 18 a thousand. "They can produce much more that this with the plant, she guarantees Luiz Lira. The agriculturist Antonio Ribeiro Rita Saint, 45, clarifies that in the artisan production he spends yourself up to one month to extract one liter of oil of andiroba. It counts that in the traditional process, after extracted the
 seed, she is necessary to cook it, later triturating it, what the hand is made. Later he places yourself to dry to the sun in top of a made use concavous base of diagonal form so that he only drains the oil that leaves the triturated material of course. This process, assures the agriculturist, delays three weeks more than. "With the plant I know that we go to produce much more. We want to enter strong in the market of fitocosméticos and fitoterápicos and to attract investments for the city, it says the producer, that also is member of the Cooptitos. The leader Wanderlea Teixeira informs that still in this month the producers, the majority young, go to receive qualification to operate the machines and until the beginning of March it intends yourself to inaugurate the mini-plant. For the president of Conselho Deliberativo (CDE) of the Sebrae Amazon, Jose Robert Tadros, the actions of the entity in Manaquiri represent the interest of the Sebrae in developing the interior of
 Amazon. "We know of the difficulties that the entrepreneurs of the interior face daily in transport terms, logistic and access the market. Therefore, in 2008 we go to act of form more effective in this region of Amazon, it says. In 2008, the Sebrae Amazon goes to invest about R$ 6,4 million in actions directed toward the interior of the State by means of 28 projects of development, enclosing more than 30 cities, according to information the sector of planning of the entity. Service: Sebrae in Amazon - (92) 2121-4900

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