Nordeste & Cerrado

Associação de Moradores do Distrito Horizonte (CE)

Products: Pequi oil
Contact Person: Laurilucia Silva Alves
Address: Distrito Horizonte
City: Jardim/CE
Phone: (88) 3555.5000
E-mail: fararipe.org@terra.com.br
N. of Families: 180

Cooperativa dos Agricultores Familiares e Agroextrativista Grande Sertão (MG)

Products: Frozen fruit pulp (araçá, cajá, sour coconuts, mangaba, native passion fruit, panã/araticum, serigüela, tamarind, acerola, pineapple, mango and passion fruit), frozen pequi, pequi oil, pequi pulp, preserves, molasses, brown sugar, honey, rice and manioc flour
Contact Person: José Lelis e João Carlos
Address: Rua Handerson, 400 – Distrito Industrial
CEP: 39400-000
City: Montes Claros/MG
Phone: (38) 3221.9465 – (38) 4009.1513 – (61) 3327.8085
E-mail: grandesertao@caa.org.br
N. of Families: 1.500

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Cooperjap – Cooperativa dos produtores rurais e catadores de pequi (MG)

Products: Pequi preserves, oil, nuts and frozen native fruit pulp.
Contact Person: José Antonio and Nilvânia
Address: Rua Brasília, nº 257
CEP: 39335-000
City: Japonvar/MG
Phone: (38) 3231.9310 – (61) 3327.8085
Fax: (38) 3231.9122
E-mail: cooperjap@ig.com.br
N. of Families: 210 cooperados
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Agrotec – Centro de Tecnologia Agroecologia de Pequenos Agricultores (GO)

Products: Dehydrated medicinal plants, teas, essential oils, vegetable oils, wild meat (capybara, white-lipped and white-collared peccary and Amazon turtles), sundried and crystallized fruits, pequi and jatobá flour, roasted baru nuts and baru cereal bars
Contact Person: Paulo Bezerra
Address: Antiga Estrada para Arenópolis, KM 3 Zona Rural.
CEP: 76260-000
City: Diorama/GO
Phone: (64) 3689 1165 – (64) 9655 4839 – (62) 9683 7062
E-mail: agrotec@persogo.com.br

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Articulação Pacari de Plantas Medicinais

Products: Vegetable oils, essential oils, medicinal plants and cosmetics
Contact Person: Jaqueline Evangelista Dias
City: Cidade de Goiás/GO
Phone: (62) 3371.1121 – (62) 3371.2867
E-mail: jaqueline@pacari.org.br

Additional Information:
The network is made up of community-based groups which work with Cerrado medicinal plants in the states of Minas Gerais, Tocantins, Maranhão and Goiás. A project for production of Cerrado plant vegetable oils for cosmetics production is currently under development, involving 40 families.