Implantação de requisitos corporativos da qualidade e identificação dos impactos ambientais no banco ativo de germoplasma de cajueiro

Abstract

The cashew crop presents a high socioeconomic and cultural importance for men in northeastern Brazil. The cashew genetic diversity has contributed to the agribusiness, however anthropic actions occurring in natural environments have generated recurrent loss this variability. The Active Germplasm Bank of Cashew (AGB Cashew) aims both to conserve this genetic resource and to solve the improvement points found in the traditional model of conservation of these resources, including the loss of information and rework arising from the exchange of technical staff, responsible curator and methodology. In order to solve these problems and comply with new society demands for environmentally sustainable products and activities, this research presents the innovative process of implementing corporate quality requirements at AGB Cashew, as well as the environmental impact assessment of its activities. The corporate quality requirements were defined, implemented and monitored. The bank's activities were mapped and subsequently their environmental impacts were elaborated using a matrix. As a result, it was possible to notice a reduction in the bank's rework and an improvement in the reliability, safety and quality of its results. Regarding the elaborated environmental impacts, it was observed that the negative impacts were larger, however they were usually not significant, of short term and small magnitude.