Análise da produção e comercialização de açaí no estado do Pará, Brasil
International Journal of Development Research
Análise da produção e comercialização de açaí no estado do Pará, Brasil
Received 17th January, 2020; Received in revised form 06th February, 2020; Accepted 03rd March, 2020; Published online 29th April, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Geraldo dos Santos Tavares et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This work describes aspects of the extraction, management and plantation of assai, with emphasis on the State of Pará, Amazon and Brazil. Based on the available data, it comments on the marketing of assai pulp and its derivatives in Brazil and abroad. It recommends the need to improve the statistics of assai fruit production, to create NCM for assai pulp and derivatives, and to invest in agronomic research aimed at the full domestication of this plant.
