A study conducted through a partnership between IDESAM and Natura intends to analyse and propose improvements to the production chain of Andiroba and Murumuru seeds in the extractavist communities of the M\u00e9dio Juru\u00e1 region. These communities are within and near two protected areas: the Uacari Sustainable Development Reserve (state) and the Extractavist Reserve of M\u00e9dio Juru\u00e1 (federal).<\/p>\n
The partnership was signed in May, 2012 and will continue until March, 2013 and comprises of three stages: review of state of the art production chains, assessment of the current situation, technical and organisation recommendations and, finally, proposals for a Workplace Safety Programme. The study involves approximately 400 families, distributed in 30 communities on the margins of Juru\u00e1, which are involved in seed collecting activates. It involves a complex chain of transport logistics for the forest seeds, which extends from the Itamarati municipality, passing through Carauari, until the Juru\u00e1 municipality.<\/p>\n
According to Andr\u00e9 Vianna, co-ordinator of IDESAM\u2019s Natural Resource Management Programme (PMN) and responsible for the study, the project will evaluate alternatives for improving production systems, which may increase the quality of the products at a lower production cost and with greater financial returns for the raw-material collectors, while increase production without causing environmental damage. “Mapping the actors involved in the chain, their respective forms of acting, as well as the existing production agreements will help us formulate these alternatives\u201d, he explains.<\/p>\n
Stages of research<\/strong><\/p>\n Currently, the researchers involved are awaiting a research license from the management organs of the UC’s where the study will be carried out – ICMBio and Ceuc. A series of interviews with institutions and people with a history on the site have already been carried out in Manaus and Carauari. The goal is to obtain an up to date panorama of the organisational arrangement as well as of the activities and studies already carried out, and from there, to direct methodologies, analyse productive chains and make workplace safety proposals. “After that, a workshop will be held in Carauri with the actors in the productive chains of these products”, says Vianna.<\/p>\n For the next steps, researchers point out the mapping of existing processes in the production chains in order to understand the current state of the mode of production, elaborated with interviews with the interviews with CODAEMJ, AMARU, ASPROC and CNS.<\/p>\n In addition to the interviews, information collected in the field during the production stages will confirm the results. After mapping, the production cost will be quantified, evaluating:<\/p>\n \u2022 Collection; History<\/strong><\/p>\n According to Natura\u2019s records, the marketing of vegetable oils began from the implementation of a biodiesel production project as an alternative source of electric energy for the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) in 2000. However, due to the high market price of Andiroba oil, the project changed course, enabling the installation of a processing plant in the Roque community – the largest of the region’s settlements – and it went on to encourage the commercialisation of Andiroba oil and, from 2004, Murumuru oil.<\/p>\n In 2003, still with the support of UFAM, the Agroextractivist Development and Energy Co-operative of Middle Juru\u00e1 (CODAEMJ) was founded, and began to acquire the region\u2019s communities Andiroba and Murumuru seed production to extract oil.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A study conducted through a partnership between IDESAM and Natura intends to analyse and propose improvements to the production chain of Andiroba and Murumuru seeds in the extractavist communities of the M\u00e9dio Juru\u00e1 region. These communities are within and near two protected areas: the Uacari Sustainable Development Reserve (state) and the Extractavist Reserve of M\u00e9dio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idesam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idesam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idesam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idesam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idesam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idesam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idesam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idesam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idesam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 Transport to dryers;
\n\u2022 Drying and storage;
\n\u2022 Transport to the plant;
\n\u2022 Drying and milling plant;
\n\u2022 Crude oil extraction;
\n\u2022 Loading and Transport to Carauari;
\n\u2022 Final Transport.
\nIn each process the following will be quantified:
\n\u2022 Operational performance (man or machine hours necessary for the execution of the activity);
\n\u2022 Labour cost, supplies and equipment acquisition;
\n\u2022 Fees and administrative costs.<\/p>\n