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Embrapa Coffee
Embrapa Café - Brasília/DF
It coordinates the activities of the Brazilian Coffee Research and Development Consortium, which constitutes 39 institutions of higher learning, research and extension, production and industrialization of coffee.
The Consortium maintains a close relationship with government organs such as the Deliberative Council of Coffee Policies, where actions and policies for the coffee business are defined.
In this manner, Embrapa Coffee strives for the alliance of human and institutional resources in the country that are dedicated to the study and research in the technological and economical sustainability of the Brazilian coffee business.
With Embrapa Coffee, Brazil acquires a national coordination of research efforts, thus enabling the country to consolidate and maintain its leadership in the world's coffee trade.
Activities
- Coordination of the Brazilian Coffee Research and Development Consortium
- Formulation of public policies for the development of the coffee production chain business
- Promotion of coffee research and development
- Socio-economic studies and coffee harvests forecasts
Services
- Exchange programs and partnerships with public and private organizations
- Training and improvement of human resources, users and partners
Products
- Technologies and research in development archives
Major Research Areas
- Agroclimatology and physiology
- Genetic and improvement of the coffee plant
- Soils and nutrition of the coffee plant
- Pests, diseases and nematodes of the coffee plant
- Management of cultivation and irrigation
- Harvest, post-harvest and quality
- Socio-economy, markets and total quality of the coffee agroindustrial chain
- Technological transfer and diffusion
- Biotechnology
- Industrial processes
- Harvest forecast
