DRIVING AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE RANCHING TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY
We regenerate degraded pastures in partnership with family farmers by planting the macaúba, a Brazilian palm tree that produces sustainable vegetable oils.
What we do
Products
From macaúba are extracted two types of vegetable oil (pulp and kernel oils), two types of presscakes (pulp and kernel presscakes) and the endocarp. Each product has different applicability in the industry.
Extractivism
INOCAS promotes the extraction of native macaúba palm fruits, advises on the organic certification of native macaúba, and assists extractivists in accessing the benefits of the Minimum Price Guarantee Policy for Sociobiodiversity Products (PGPM-Bio).
Planting
In partnership with smallholder farmers, INOCAS performs macaúba planting in systems intercropped with crops and pastures to diversify production and increase farm productivity in a sustainable manner.
Germination Laboratory
We carried out the collection of selected fruits for the germination of macauba seeds in our own laboratory, using a protocol from the Federal University of Viçosa for the production of seedlings.
Commitment for Sustainability
Hectares
of macaúba planted in agroforestry systems (AFS) or crop-livestock-forest integration (CLFI) in degraded pasture areas.
Partner farmer
with macauba palm planting under agricultural partnership or promoted farmer, mostly involving family farmers.
Landlord
rural producers who have macaúba in the form of leasing, mostly consisting of family farmers.
People in resocialization
people from the prison system who were supported in their resocialization journey through employment in macaúba seed production.
Ecological corridors
under development. The corridors are connections between previously isolated areas of APP (Permanent Preservation Area) or RL (Legal Reserve), now connected through macaúba plantations.
Tons of CO2e
that were captured. Based on the Imaflora study of 2020.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CONTACT US
If you would like to make a suggestion, compliment or request more information about our projects, please contact us through this Contact Us or through our social medias:
Contact: +55 (34) 3814-8638
Monday to Friday - 8h às 18h
R. Dores do Indaiá, 166, Centro, Patos de Minas-MG CEP: 38.700-140
