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An
Ecologic Product
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vegetal specie Bertholleita excelsa H.B.K., whose fruit are
nuts known as Brazil Nuts, is native of South America; especially
from the area that -taxonomically according to the vegetal soil
- has been classified as Amazonian Hylea.
This plant is
a tree of gigantic proportions, with an average height of 40
meters as full mature; its profile unmistakable because it shows
a straight trunk with no branches lower that 25 meters from
the ground and in the last superior third a full treetop.
In natural conditions the
tree reaches its mature state in approximately 80 years; although
it begins an incipient production at 35 to 40 years. |
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This
may be the reason that there is not an extensive cultivation
of this resource.
The total Bolivian
production of this almond comes from the natural Amazonian rain
forest of the north of the country, from a surface of about
80.000 km2.
The collection of this fruit
lasts about 3 and 4 months a year; and this is collected once
it falls from the tree, this happens once it has achieved its
physiologic completion; the rain and wind help this to happen,
because it would be impossible to collect them from its foliage. |
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The
harvest activity is of total collection; neither the forest
nor the producer tree or others around are affected in the collection
process, but only once by the opening of entrance roads to remote
places. It is also used the entangled net of rivers and brooks
for the gathering and transportation of the shelled almond to
the processing centers. |
Summarizing,
it is possible to state that the Brazil Nut is the only non-cultivated
nut of the nut market; this characteristic implies the no use
of any fertilizer, neither pesticides or any other chemical
components in the fruiting process. The Brazil Nut is a completely
wild fruit, it is the fruit that nature itself gives to the
mankind.
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