O EXTRATIVISMO DE BARU (Dipteryx alata Vog) EM PIRENÓPOLIS (GO) E SUA SUSTENTABILIDADE

Abstract

The present paper refers to a case s study relatives to baru s extracting collected in Pirenópolis, a turist city in Goiás. Pirenópolis is articulated to the historical-cultural turism, and is visited because of its natural s beauties and explore the eco turism. Pirenópolis has another activity, not much spreaded, without relation with the turism: the baru s extracting, a cerrado s fruit, with high nutritional value. The baru has a almond, wth pleasant flavor, its most attractive for men and animals. The baru occurs naturally in all the continuos area of Brazilian Cerrado biome. In Pirenópolis, the baru has been explorated by extracting, and has been traded by Cenesc (Center of Sustaintable Development of Cerrado) and the Association of Jointed Development of Caxambu. This study checked that the baru s production and trading is artesanal. It has little knowledge about storage, packing and saling in large scale. It has two social categories distints, from the income s baru. In one side, have the peasants, owners of lands, in the other side, have the rural workers, that just sale their workforce. In this relation of production exist the mediators, that generally buy the baru from the extracting comunity, process it and sale it. The mediators are the people that make a profit with baru. Generally the baru is not the principal families s income, since its fruit s production is sazonal, occurs just once a year.