In the Amazon, where each fruit has its time, women in the future are grown with their hands and reaping self -independence. Lurdes, Beneedita, Dionte, Leonilda and Tainá are some of Marajoaras, which, about a decade ago, Bioingersions such as Murumuru, Ucuba and Patauá to Natura, a Brazilian company that has invested in the relationship between traditional knowledge and the vegetable oil market – is a series of respected respect for respect for forests.
“Before the machine, we used the hammer to break the fruits. It was more difficult. But at the time of the hammer, that was a joy, as you know? It was fun. We sat together,” remember Lurdes Batista, 72, one of the first women to integrate into the Murumuru and Ucuba production community in SãO Jé do Reiva Community. (PA).
The field workers for the Bioingerses (Gabriel Da Mota / Special for Liberal)
With the arrival of Natura, they also came solar panels, income and confession. He says, “Before that, the husband only went out to fish.” Today, 13 women alternate production that respects forest courses. “We do not reap everything. Wait until you give nature. And do not drop it, not to finish our work,” knows the already retired essence.
Knowing generations
Multi -functional use of the nature that precedes the industrial outlook of production. “My great grandmother used Moromoro shells to intimidate smoke insects. We are always re -using everything. Today, I continue today, besides being my income, this is my treatment against depression. Before I can smile today,” says Lionelda Silva, 49, the daughter of Lords.
Lionelda Silva (49) and Lurdes Batista (72), mother and daughter, agricultural -from the Sao Jose de Manifa (Gabriel da Motta / private / special for liberalism)
Lionelda managed to purchase a tail and build her home with the already won by Moromoro and Ucuuba, whose price has risen per kilo of $ 2.50 (in 2015) to $ 5. With the opening of agricultural works at the Agricultural Workers Association on the island island (ATAIC), which will turn almonds into vegetable butter, the expectation is an increase of 60 % in the income of extractors, according to Natura.
“I lived from Paula Familia. But for a five -year -old mother, I did not give her. This has greatly improved my life,” Lionelda adds, with great happiness.
According to cooperative data, more than 400 families today participate in the ATAIC network, which operates in the states of Para and Imaba for 25 years that strengthen social diversity chains, with regular supplies of inputs such as Moromoro, Batwa and Androbia. Natura maintains purchase contracts with preference terms – ensuring stability in the flow of production, without exclusivity.
From bias to financial autonomy
Like Rio, these women won what it seemed to be unknown:
“When we started, it was very difficult. It is essentially because we were subjected to severe criticism by men. They said:” madness is already going to the bush, “but we didn’t care.” Bienidita Oliveira, 40, says, who realized the dream of traveling by the capital in the name of Belém and Sao Paulo, thanks to Agroextractivism. “Today, the men realize. They see our work. He says. He says. Denit Cardoso: “They come to help pick up, to break.”
In 48 years and mother of nine children, she summarizes: “Before, we haven’t seen it. We have relied on what men brought. Today, if we want to buy something for our family, we already have our money.”
On the right, Tainá Rosa (27) seeks to build a house for his family with an income of Agroixtractivism (Gabriel Da Mota / Special for Liberal)
At the age of twenty -seven, Tainá Rosa represents a new generation of agricultural swamps. A single mother of three children, once again collected Moromoro after the end of the relationship. “I want to build a house for me. What we win here is not much, but we can build something. My mother takes care of my daughters while I go to the bush.”
It is collected in the areas of the floods, where the tide determines the extent of the possibility of going. Even in the risks – like snakes that have already appeared on the road, or the weight of the fruit in the back – you find Tainá relief in the group experience.
“It is very good to be in the bush. We talk, jokes, we think it is funny together,” he says.
Assembly
You see a field agent at ATAIC Marta Cardoso at the opening of Agro -Endustry toilets. “It is a dream come true,” he says.
Currently, the Manifa Women Production Center consists of 13 workers (Gabriel da Motta / Special for Liberal)
For Carolina Dominico, Director of Relations and Supply at Natura, the new session that begins with agriculture -is also a change in the economic level of these societies. He explains, “The seeds that have benefited from here follow the group of agriculture that will turn from almonds to butter. This process brings the added value of society.”
In some cases, as in Murumuru processing, the amount of seeds needed to produce a ton of oil is four times higher. With local treatment, there are larger logistical and profitable gains for those who live in the forest.
*The journalist traveled at the invitation of Nature and WeG.
