Piracuí Flour from Monte Alegre (PA): Potentiality and Feasibility of Obtaining a Geographical Indication
Geographical Indication. Potentiality. Viability.
Bearing in mind that the production of Piracuí de Monte Alegre has a quality differential, due to the large production of acari in its lakes, fish from which the best and traditional fish meal in the region of the lower and middle Amazon is made, this set of factors favors the registration of GI Geographical Indications, thus allowing to identify and value the local natural and human resources, therefore this research with this study format seeks to analyze the potentiality and feasibility of obtaining a geographical indication for flour from Piracuí de Monte Alegre . To do so, it was necessary to characterize the production of Piracuí flour in the municipality of Monte Alegre, thereby obtaining ten communities that produce and market the product in the municipality, with this mapping of the communities involved in the production, an analysis was carried out to find out if there were specificities in the production process in the communities identified as producers of flour from Piracuí, with this information collected, it was observed whether the need to provide technical support to producers interested in obtaining a seal of geographical indication or collective mark for flour from Piracuí de Monte Alegre suggested whether also a proposal for the development of a research project to continue this study, which will be coordinated by the Campus Universities de Monte Alegre, to facilitate the provision of information to producers interested in granting the seal of geographical indication for Flour from Piracuí de Monte Happy. Given the above, it was found that the appreciation of products and services from locations where there is a guarantee of origin of products contributes to local and regional development under the influence of GI, thus concluding the viability of producing communities and with potential for the production of Flour from Piracuí in a standardized and organized way, which imposes the verification that they have potential viability for obtaining the registration of indication.