The main environmental problems associated with the waste produced in intensive pig farming are its high organic load, high amount of nutrients, the presence of some metallic species and of micro-organisms, some of which are known pathogenic agents. In general, the waste treatment systems in pig farms still lack the ability to reduce or eliminate pathogenic agents from the waste produced, a fact which makes it difficult to reuse the water in the very facility or even in agriculture. Seasonal flu

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009

Sustainability of traditional cultivation systems (slash-and-burn) depends especially on long periods of set-aside in order to reestablish the stock of the soil's nutrients and raw organic material used and/or lost during the agricultural period. Population growth and decrease in the region's secondary vegetation availability has progressively reduced the set-aside period, subsequently increasing the pressure on riparian areas and cultivated ones. The result if degradation of natural resources a

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009

One of the largest livestock problems in Southern Brazil has been the scantiness of varieties of forage species more adapted to this region. In addition, due to global warming and the demand for increased productivity with reduced use of inputs, there is a need of studies on germplasm tolerance to abiotic stresses such as drought, and the evaluation of symbiotic organisms to promote biological nitrogen fixation in grasses. Thus, this project aimed to develop improved populations of some of the m

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012

The overall objective of this project was to strengthen Brazil’s green economy by harmonizing economic development and environmental conservation through sustainable agriculture that does not harm the environment, using soil and plant biomass management in organic production systems as a starting point. Unlike many agricultural production systems, organic agriculture offers a range of practices and techniques that potentially contribute to increase sustainability, including soil and plant biomas

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012

The infection of the swine herd with Salmonella and consequently, the presence of this micro-organism in swine products, has been a serious concern since it can be a great threat to the consumers themselves. Embrapa Swine and Poultry and UFRGS teamed up to develop tools and epidemiological studies that can characterize the problem, the contamination sources and the infection dynamics in the country's southern herds. This project aims to propose a systematic control of the Salmonella infection in

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007

Yuca ( Manihot esculenta) represents one of the main food products of the Northern region. Indigenous peoples have left to the Northern peoples this heritage of many alternatives to the processing of this root, which can generate up to 300 products according to sources. In addition to having great socio-economic importance to the region, it is estimated that the yuca has its origin and diversification center in the Amazon. Thusly, knowing the existing variability in material collected thr ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010

The goal of this project is to develop an integrated database system for the Department of Vegetal Sanity (DSV), the Secretary of Agriculture and Stockbreeding Defense of the Agriculture, Stockbreeding and Provision (Mapa), hoping to facilitate processes of risk analysis of plagues that attack vegetable products. The vegetable product imports which can be potential spreaders of plagues is normatized by the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC), which is linked to the Committee of Sani

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010

Selection for desirable bovine phenotypes has been practiced since the domestication of cattle, which occurred approximately 10,000 years ago. This process of domestication has brought about a marked change in behavioral and morphological characteristics in the subspecies and, together with the development of breeds and genetic breeding programs, has given rise to the enormous variety of patterns and racial types known today. Since then, traditional breeding tools, based on quantitative theory,

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015

The Minas Gerais State Network of Biotechnology for Agriculture (RMBA) includes Embrapa Maize & Sorghum (Sete Lagoas), Embrapa Dairy Cattle (Juiz de Fora), Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), Federal University of Lavras (UFLA), Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), Veterinary College of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (EV / UFMG), Minas Gerais Agricultural Research Corporation (EPAMIG) and René Rachou Research Institute (Fiocruz Minas). The strategic objective of RMBA is the technologi ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008

The increase in productivity in dairy farming will be essential to ensure increases in the production and supply of milk and milk products to meet the world's growing population. Appropriate technologies should be developed and adopted to enable increased productivity in a sustainable way, ensuring greater milk production with reduced number of animals and farming area. The efficient use of dietary nutrients is one of the premises of sustainable production systems, since their inefficient use no

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014