This report provides preliminary information on the domestic market fiber pita (Aechmea magdalenae), a forest product (NTFPs) extracted from a terrestrial bromeliad habitat which correspond to the evergreen high forests of southeastern Mexico. Its distribution also includes Central American countries and Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil in northern South America.
for its strength and size, pita fiber was once used by indigenous
Chinanteco and Maya for making fishing nets, ropes (ropes) and some ceremonial objects. In the colonial period was used to make gears in boats, and in the late nineteenth century began to be used by craftsmen saddlers state of Jalisco, embroidery using a technique similar to that practiced by the Arabs with silver thread, for garnish leather goods since then are hallmarks of the regalia used in the arts of
charrería.1
The current form of use of fiber is the result of the creativity of the craftsmen saddlers Mexicans. Elsewhere in America, where it is also not used for commercial purposes, despite that was probably known by indigenous peoples.
for its strength and size, pita fiber was once used by indigenous
Chinanteco and Maya for making fishing nets, ropes (ropes) and some ceremonial objects. In the colonial period was used to make gears in boats, and in the late nineteenth century began to be used by craftsmen saddlers state of Jalisco, embroidery using a technique similar to that practiced by the Arabs with silver thread, for garnish leather goods since then are hallmarks of the regalia used in the arts of
charrería.1
The current form of use of fiber is the result of the creativity of the craftsmen saddlers Mexicans. Elsewhere in America, where it is also not used for commercial purposes, despite that was probably known by indigenous peoples.
In the early 1990's, the management of the pita plant in wild patches and plantations in some regions of the humid tropics of Mexico was seen as part of a strategy to promote forms of community-based integrated management natural resources, seeking to combine efforts for the conservation and sustainable use of forest areas.
Thus, in the year 1997 Methodus Consulting joins a series of works about the use of pita
in Oaxaca, at various times involved in other professional groups research centers, social agencies like the Union of Indigenous Peoples Sierra de Lalana (UPIS-L), suburbs, San Rafael Water Pescadito, in the town of Valle Nacional, and government agencies like the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) to the Regional Sustainable Development Programme (PRODERS).
In this context, Methodus has prompted several lines of research, experimentation and evaluation related to participatory forms of propagation of the pita and methods of cultivation and control of diseases in plantations and mining technology with and benefited from fiber. At the same time, has conducted studies for the marketing of the fiber and the search for new uses. Finally, promoting the cultivation of the agave has driven the development of measures to strengthen community and micro-regional capacities to reduce the use of fire through sedentary agriculture and establish rural enterprises.
All this has resulted in the formation of two companies in acquiring and selling pita fiber, two Environmental Management Units (AMU known figure in the Mexican environmental regulations to regulate exploitation of flora and fauna), and more Recently, an alliance for sharing of experiences and marketing fiber between the companies and communities in the Sierra de Santa Marta (in coordination with the PSSM) and Uxpanapa
, Veracruz (mediated by Pronatura, Chapter Veracruz), and the Lacandon jungle Chiapas (in coordination with the Department of Biosphere Reserve Montes Azules and El Colegio de la Frontera Sur).
1 The charro, the Mexican vocabulary is the person dedicated to raising livestock under the national Campirano traditions, skilled in handling loop and dressage horses.
2 area where the plants are extremely tupidas3 pita Program Integrated Management of Natural Resources (PAIR) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
(UNAM), the mesophyll and the Project Group Sierra de Santa Marta (PSSM).
UNEP-WCMC / Methodus SC Consultant (Document rescued FOUNDATION reevaluated and updated by OBREGON
Thus, in the year 1997 Methodus Consulting joins a series of works about the use of pita
in Oaxaca, at various times involved in other professional groups research centers, social agencies like the Union of Indigenous Peoples Sierra de Lalana (UPIS-L), suburbs, San Rafael Water Pescadito, in the town of Valle Nacional, and government agencies like the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMARNAT) to the Regional Sustainable Development Programme (PRODERS).
In this context, Methodus has prompted several lines of research, experimentation and evaluation related to participatory forms of propagation of the pita and methods of cultivation and control of diseases in plantations and mining technology with and benefited from fiber. At the same time, has conducted studies for the marketing of the fiber and the search for new uses. Finally, promoting the cultivation of the agave has driven the development of measures to strengthen community and micro-regional capacities to reduce the use of fire through sedentary agriculture and establish rural enterprises.
All this has resulted in the formation of two companies in acquiring and selling pita fiber, two Environmental Management Units (AMU known figure in the Mexican environmental regulations to regulate exploitation of flora and fauna), and more Recently, an alliance for sharing of experiences and marketing fiber between the companies and communities in the Sierra de Santa Marta (in coordination with the PSSM) and Uxpanapa
, Veracruz (mediated by Pronatura, Chapter Veracruz), and the Lacandon jungle Chiapas (in coordination with the Department of Biosphere Reserve Montes Azules and El Colegio de la Frontera Sur).
1 The charro, the Mexican vocabulary is the person dedicated to raising livestock under the national Campirano traditions, skilled in handling loop and dressage horses.
2 area where the plants are extremely tupidas3 pita Program Integrated Management of Natural Resources (PAIR) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico
(UNAM), the mesophyll and the Project Group Sierra de Santa Marta (PSSM).
UNEP-WCMC / Methodus SC Consultant (Document rescued FOUNDATION reevaluated and updated by OBREGON
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