Brazilian Products

07/09/2008
The lemon flour produced by communities in the municipal district of Western City, (Distrito Federal) it won't be more just consumed in the state of Goiás. In the second semester of 2008 they will be sent the first 20 kilos for an importer of the United States.   

“We are taking care of the last details of the certification and other bureaucratic demands to export”, he/she affirms Oscar Andrades, the creator of the project that is benefitting 200 families.  

In agreement with Andrades, that first embarkment should accredit the mark Quilombola's to arrive to markets like Dubai, in United Arab Emirates. “I have been researching a lot in the internet, in newspapers and magazines and I identified an enormous potential in the Arab market for our products”, says Andrades.  

The lemon flour was developed with technology transferred by the Brazilian Company of Agricultural Research (Embrapa) and it brings many benefits for the health. “She combats insomnia, headache and breathing problems”, he explains. According to Andrades, it can be consumed with the foods, without altering in anything the flavor because it is 100% natural and it doesn't use chemical addictive. It can also be used to manufacture cakes and candies.  

Besides the lemon flour, the community also produces passion fruit fiber, suitable for the diabetes control and eggplant fiber, suitable for constipation, and still banana fiber, suitable as alimentary supplement, rich in calcium and potassium. “As soon as have possibility of businesses will look for the certification for those three fibers”, affirms Andrades.  

“In 2006 the passion fruit fiber reduced my indexes of diabetes. I saw an opportunity in that area and also a way to take a job alternative and income for the communities. it is an old project that finally got to put in practice”, says Andrades.  

For banana fiber Andrades also has other plans. He wants to include it in the list of products used in the school feeding and also to produce pasta, much more nutritious than the traditional pasta. “The problem is that the area of masses and cookies are dominated by the multinationals and a product that costs 1/3 of the value of the ones that are already at the market can delay to get space”.  

"We were already sought by people interested in buying the idea, but the one that we want is not just an economical compensation, but to assist those communities. The warranty that they can continue working with dignity and guaranteeing the sustenance with their own hands", he says. (Anba)

11/19/2008
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