The Brazilian Association of Nuts and Chestnuts and Dry Fruits was officially launched this morning (18) at the Fiesp headquarters in São Paulo. The novelty was announced at the VII Brazilian Meeting of Nuts and Chestnuts (ABNC). The event was organized by the Nut and Chestnut Division of the Department of Agribusiness (Deagro) of the entity.
The vice president of Ciesp and director of the division on these foods at Deagro, José Eduardo Mendes Camargo, and the director of the department, Roberto Ignacio Betancourt, participated in the opening of the meeting.
Camargo, who is also president of ABNC, highlighted the nutritional properties of walnuts and nuts and the high profitability of these products. “They are healthy food and phytotherapeutic,” he said. “We have everything to include nuts and nuts in the balance of agribusiness, to add.” The new association comes with the objective of promoting the production and sale of these items.
In Brazil, Pará nuts are produced in the North, Caju in the Northeast, Baru in the Midwest, pecans in the South, and Macadamia nuts in the Southeast. While Brazil is still in the process of developing this crop, China and the US experienced the highest growth in nut production between 2016 and 2017 compared to the average of the last ten years; 96% and 41%, respectively, second data from the International Nut and Died Fruit Council (INC).
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.