Guarana & Brasil

The topic that will be discussed today it is about harvesting and storage of guarana. To know that the fruits are ready to be harvested, just observe the fruits. When the fruits are ripe they partially open, leaving one to three dark brown seeds with the lower half covered by a thick white aryl. Harvesting is carried out at this stage when 2/3 of the bunches show the fruits open, so that the bark does not open fully, avoiding the fall of the seeds ( this happens if the fruits are harvested too late) http://www.sebrae.com.br/sites/PortalSebrae/artigos/o-cultivo-e-o-mercado-do-guarana,969a9e665b182410VgnVCM100000b272010aRCRD The harvest of the guarana is done by human labor even in large scale of production. http://www.sebrae.com.br/sites/PortalSebrae/artigos/o-cultivo-e-o-mercado-do-guarana,969a9e665b182410VgnVCM100000b272010aRCRD The guarana fruit should be pulped and roasted for commercialization. After harvest, the fruits are packed in bags or stacked in a clean pla...

The topic today it is about Crop rotation, tillage and crop establishment. As guarana is a perennial plant, crop rotation is not a suitable option. Most of the guarana plantations are monocultures  but polyculture and intercropping are good options for this plant, adding sweet potato between the lines of guarana plants showed good results, the farmer can get faster profit from the sweet potatoes, the sweet potatoes also protects the soil against erosion and they are also drought resistant. https://www.embrapa.br/amazonia-ocidental/busca-de-publicacoes/-/publicacao/665230/cultivo-de-batata-doce-nas-entrelinhas-do-guarana Not a lot of researches and different experiments were done about the subject of polyculture and intercropping for guarana. But the one that was done with the sweet potato showed good results, so it means that the guarana plant can work in cooperation with other plants and more investigation about this topic need to be done, once the soil and the farmers...