Integrated fruit production - enhancing production, quality, and safety of fruit production and packing of mango in Brazil as a model.

摘要

This article discusses expansion of the mango growing area in Brazil, which depends on the generation and adaptation of production technologies, as well as on consumer market tendencies that currently require better quality fruits. Adoption of Fruit Integrated Production (FIP) with the objective of economically producing high quality fruits obtained by ecologically safer methods, which minimizes the collateral undesirable effects of pesticides, increasing environmental protection and improving human health, is discussed. The FIP System in the Satildeo Francisco River Valley began in 2000 with the elaboration of an environmental diagnosis of the region followed by monitoring of insects and diseases, training of technicians and farmers, study of the production chain, and elaboration of databases and procedures for integrated mango production. Currently, the programme counts on the participation of 287 mango producer farms, amounting to a monitored area of 8780 ha. This programme is based on the integration of scientists, farmers, consultants and extension people, both from public and private institutions. Research is being conducted to generate and diffuse new technologies, products and services that can be adapted to the situation of Brazilian mango farmers.