Geraldo Alckmin comes to Manaus to sign the first CBA management contract

Biotechnology

The decree was officially signed in May by President Lula

Manaus (AM) – The vice-president and minister of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services (MDIC), Geraldo Alckmin, announced that he will be in Manaus, next Tuesday (25), to sign the first management contract for the Amazon Biotechnology Center (CBA). This year, the space began to be managed by the Social Organization Fundação Universitas de Estudos Amazônicos (Fuea).

On social media, Alckmin declared that the Amazon is a gift and the CBA’s private management contract aims to transform biodiversity into jobs and income, with goals and results.

“The Amazon is a gift, whose riches need to be explored in a sovereign, sustainable and inclusive way. As President Lula highlighted, in Colombia, with concrete projects, together with our neighbors, we will protect our borders, eliminate illegal deforestation and generate opportunities for the inhabitants of the Amazon region. The Amazon Biobusiness Center (CBA) is already an integral part of this great effort. Later this month, the CBA management contract will be signed, inaugurating a new era for the sustainable exploitation of our biodiversity”,

declared.

In May, President Lula signed Decree 11,516 that qualified the Fundação Universitas de Estudos Amazônicos as a social organization and made it capable of administering the CBA, which now has its own legal personality, an old demand of the Federal Court of Accounts.

The initiative aims to multiply its budget and develop, in addition to research, new businesses with natural resources from the Amazon. The public resources foreseen for the next four years reach R$ 47.6 million. However, it will now also be possible to access resources available in the private sector for research, development and innovation.

The CBA will now have a business nucleus operating on two fronts: 1) searching for research, in addition to its own laboratories, that result in “off-the-shelf” products that integrate the Center’s portfolio, and that will be offered to potential investors ; 2) through partnerships with the private sector, ensure regular supply of raw materials at competitive prices, providing minimum conditions for the industry to establish itself and for sustainability in the work of the communities directly involved, such as riverside communities and native peoples.

CBA performance

Over the last few years, CBA has been working on projects that include the development of new products and processes that use inputs from the Amazonian biodiversity in several areas, such as food and beverages, herbal medicines, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, chemistry, bioplastics, nutraceuticals, agriculture, textile, health, diagnostics and paper, among others.

The CBA also acts in the training of human resources for the development of sustainable base activities, through technical support to traditional communities, management units, agroforestry entrepreneurs; and for transforming organic and inorganic waste into economically viable products.

Creation

The creation and start of the activities of the CBA was in 2003. However, legal impasses obstructed the full operation of the Center. So much so that the Federal Court of Auditors (TCU) determined, in 2016, that the federal government should attribute legal personality to the CBA.

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