Technical and operational concepts within Integrated Production (IP) come to directly attend the requirements of national and international agencies which are in charge of inspection of commodities with focus on safety and quality of foods bought by consumers. The guarantee of producing a safe and traceable food is reached by harmonic effort of productive chain components. This must include following the Specific Technical Rules (STR) for each product allowing an effective control of the production systems by monitoring every phase of this productive chain. This concept begun with Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and, afterward expanded to a holistic vision based on four pillars: organization of the productive business; sustainable system; monitoring of the whole process; and formation of a data set. This vision includes the Integrated Production of Annonaceae, project that begun in 2010 supported by CNPq/MAPA/EMBRAPA and affiliated institutions. Annonaceae represents generic name to designate plants of Annonaceae family which has about 120 genus and about 2,300 species. In Brazil there is a register of 29 genus with 260 species. Among species of great commercial importance there are sour soup (Annona muricata L.), sweet apple (Annona squamosa L.), cherimoya (Annona cherimola Mill) and the atemoia, hybrid of A. cherimola and A. squamosa. These fruits area highly accepted due to their excellent taste and possible use as pulp for juices and others uses. Commercial areas are concentrated in the Northeast of Brazil. The largest plantations of sour soup and sweet apple are located in the state of Bahia, for sweet apple the state of Alagoas, and for atemoia the state of São Paulo. Research results for these four fruits are still very poor. Improvement has to be done on genetic, pest control, disease control, physiology of production and post harvesting.
sweet apple; sour soup; cherimoya; atemoia; traceability; post harvesting