| Dr. Miguel
Barreiro Neto, president of Empresa Estadual de Pesquisa
Agropecuária da Paraíba S.A. (the State Company for
Agricultural Research), accompanied by his Technical
Director, Camilo Flamarion de Oliveira Franco, recently
visited Tamanduá Farm in order to assess the potential of
organic farming in research and extension activities, within
the goals of the new State government.
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| Dr.
Miguel Barreiro Neto, president of EMEPA.
(the State Company for Agricultural Research), and his
Technical
Director, Camilo Flamarion de Oliveira Franco,
the first 2 on the left. |
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A thorough,
very beneficial and promising “tour d’horizon” took
place. The results will be taken to the newly-appointed
Agriculture Secretary for the State of Paraíba, Dr. Francisco
Quintans, who already knows Tamanduá Farm and who is very
interested in raising the flag of organic farming in the State.
On that
occasion, the researcher Rêmulo Araujo Carvalho presented a
very original study on the control of fusariosis in the
pineapple plant, using the bark of antibiotic plants such as
the acacia nigri. The latter could be replaced
by the jurema (mimosa hostilis Benth.), which is
known to contain tannin and is very widespread in the sertão.
The State of Paraíba is still the largest producer of
pineapple in Brazil, but the sector is in a state of
stagnation; and this work could permit the growing of the
succulent bromeliad within the organic method, which does not
occur yet, despite constant demand.
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