An Ecologic Product

Thew 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.
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.
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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