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Besides creating jobs, he points out that the activity contributes to social inclusion and supplements
family budgets. “Women are the most involved in this activity. This is important for improving the quality of
life of these families,” he affirms. Marinho also emphasizes that the total number of collaborative enterprises
determined by the Ministry still do not represent all of the initiatives existing in the sector. “These data only
include enterprises that informed their monthly earnings in 2005. We estimate that the real number is most
likely double this amount,” he estimates.
Priscilla Rocha Silva, an agronomist at the Agricultural Economics Institute (IEA) in São Paulo, has
determined that the sector is growing, mainly in the informal sector. “Many men and women work in
fruit processing for their incomes. Some are organized in cooperatives and associations and others
produce individually,” she points out. For her, one of the challenges to increase growth is training and
encouraging fruit growing.