For six years in a row the regional stage of Minas Gerais Coffee Crop Circuit will take place in Paraguaçu.
The event meeting rounds started in April and for the sixth time in a row Paraguaçu has been on the event route. It took place at the Ideal Clube noble room, which was crowded, in April 8th.
During the morning there was a lot of experience and knowledge give-and-take. This event is an excellent Exchange opportunity between academic research and practical experience from growers.
The circuit purpose is to promote information and technology exchange between technicians, businessmen and growers in order to improve coffee quality, reduce cultivation costs, increase growers income, jobs keeping and creation, improvement in coffee crop chain management, commercialization and sustainability.
IN SEARCH OF KNOLEDGE
Here in Paraguaçu there were more than 200 growers from all over the region in addition to authorities and leadership from all the institutions related to rural activities. The program included four lectures. The first person to talk was José Rogério Lara, agronomical engineer and technical coordinator at EMATER-MG. His speech subject was “Coffee crop sustainability and scenario”. Following, Sérgio Brás Regina, who’s also an agronomical engineer at
EMATER, presented some very interesting and useful details about APAS (Alto da Serra Rural Producers Association,, in Portuguese), a success example in associativism and coffee certification. The third speech had the following subject: Liming importance toward soil fertility. It was given by Rodrigo Geraldo Borges, agronomical engineer at the company Solo Fértil. Finally, Ademir Calegari, professor at Paraná Agronomical Institute presented emphatically the soil bio-ativation results, a process that goes against the soil treatment with chemical products commercial logic.
Among coffee growers the circuit evaluation one more time was very positive. “I’ve already took part in the circuit in other towns but in Paraguaçu it has been the first time. I liked the event a lot. The lectures were brilliant and touched growers and expanded our horizons to the coffee market and its technologies”, said Carlos Roberto Paiva, coffee grower and milk producer in the town of Elói Men des. “Nowadays, in general, everybody seeks productivity improvement with sustainability. What we have seen here was exactly it, which is really good to grower” he also said. “I thought the circuit was really useful in order that we continue and improve our work. I’ll use a lot of what I’ve learned here at my work”, cheerfully said Sabastião Xavier, a Paraguaçu town coffee grower from Mata district.
25 STAGES
Minas Gerais Circuit is promoted by EMATER-MG in partnership with Secretary of Satate for Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, Lavras Federal University and city halls. In 2016, 25 stages will take place at the most important grower regions in Minas Gerais. In Paraguaçu, the event also had support from COOMAP, City Hall, Town Hall, City Council For Sustainable Rural Development, Rural Union And Sponsoring Companies.
