Estágio supervisionado obrigatório na Empresa Augusta Internacional Ltda. (Yaguara Ecológico): cafeicultura

Abstract

The location and venue of a supervised internship (ESO) was located in the city of Taquaritinga do Norte, Pe, Brazil on the Farm Varzea da Onca under the sponsorship of Yaguara Ecológico/Augusta Internacional. The intern, Eduardo Gonçalves de Oliveira, a member of the Xukuru indigenous community, worked on the farm during the months of August and September 2019. The farm is located within the Borborema regional mountain range, where altitudes range from 700 to 1000 meters above sea level. The terroir is characterized by a remnants of a native forest called the Mata Atlântica, wherein since 1750 small family farms have cultivated coffee within a policulture of biodiversity. The farm, Varzea da Onca, has aggregated over 30 parcels of traditional small family holdings into a single hydraulic micro basin. This land pattern guarantees that there is an ecological conservation and protection zone to pursue the farming practice called “Ecoagriculture” wherein the biological systems of nature are valued, preserved, and predominate in the daily work routine. The internship focused on the value chain of coffee production, processing, and marketing of the specialty coffee brand “Yaguara Ecológico”. This practical experience included a range of activities from seed selection, planting, germination, pruning, harvesting, processing, and roasting. In addition, the principles and practices of Ecological Agriculture were discussed and examined on a daily basis, so that the theoretical and conceptual foundations of practical options were understood. The farm as an biological ecosystem whose purposes and practices focus on sustainable development was the the primary takeaway of the internship.