Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural
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Abstract

Bacellar Atlas A., Souza Rubem C. R., Xavier Diogo J. C., Seye Omar, Santos Eyde C. S., Freitas Katriana T. Geração de renda na cadeia produtiva do açaí em projeto de abastecimento de energia elétrica em comunidades isoladas no município de Manacapuru-Am. In: Proceedings of the 6. Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural [Proceedings online]; 2006  June 06-08; Campinas, SP, Brazil. 2006 [cited 2024 Oct 31]. Available from: URL: http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000022006000200001&lng=en&nrm=van .

Efforts endeavored by the State aiming to universalize the electricity use in Brazil, PRODEEM and Programa Luz Para Todos are examples of it, had have as result high insolvency or interruption. The aim of this work is to analyze the potentialities of increasing incomes in communities at the city of Manacapuru - Am, assisted by the research project "Model of electric power Businesses in Isolated Communities at the Amazon region"- NERAM, under the responsibility of CDEAM of Federal University of Amazonas - UFAM, starting from açaí supply chain. The strategy is to implement an industry of açaí's pulps with the objectives of adding value to the fruit and to use the pits as biomass to generate power. Cooperative as a legal model of enterprise was adopted in order to be responsible for the industry with the participation of the families that work with the fruit and the community in general. The cooperative plant idealized was based on the report of a socio-economic research applied at the communities. Three methods were used to analyze the investment: Uniform Annual value Equivalent (VAUE), Liquid Present Value (VLP) and Ratio of Internal Return (TIR). The results demonstrated the enterprise's viability since obeying the following premises: 50 tons of minimum production of açaí per month; R$ 2.50 as a minimum pulp's sale price; and 0.60 kg of pulp for 1 kg of fruit as minimum productivity, which will create nine new puts of work, warranty of açaí's fruit sale, income's increasing for the cooperative and incentive to catch the fruit.

Keywords : Supply chain; Isolated communities; Electric power generation; Income generation.