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| The last decades' expansion of açaí palm cultivated areas in the Amazon was significantly high, it being the source of new jobs and income opportunities for the local population. Even though, the participation of the açaí fruit in the region's agribusiness is rather inexpressive when compared to the volume of fruit production in Brazil. Status: Completed Start date: Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008 |
| No Brasil, um grande número de agroindústrias familiares elabora suco de uva ‘caseiro’ ou ‘colonial’ pela técnica da panela extratora por arraste de vapor. O produto é vendido em feiras de agricultura familiar e para consumidores do entorno de cada propriedade produtora, contribuindo, de forma importante, para a renda da pequena propriedade rural. A referida panela, embora seja um equipamento de preço bastante acessível, resulta na elaboração de suco com incorporação de água, proveniente do vapo ... Status: Completed Start date: Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016 |
| Genetic Vegetable resources, globally, involve a number of around 300,000 identified species, of which 30,000 are edible and only 30 consist of foods that feed the world's population. However, from this total, only three species provide 50% of proteins necessary in a regular diet (rice, wheat and corn). This situation has been stimulating a great number of researchers in the quest to increase the number of species dedicated to feed the population. Brazil is considered the world's greatest source Status: Completed Start date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| This project includes efforts to maintain, enrich, and characterize Embrapa's forest speciesgermplasm banks. Embrapa has an extensive network of germplasm for forest species, bothexotic and native, which has strategic value for the present and the future. These species wereprioritized for comprising germplasm banks maintained in the field for decades, in many casesexclusive material with strategic importance to society. Although this genetic material plays animportant role in leveraging improvem Status: In progress Start date: Sat May 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2021 |
| The objective is jointly validate new banana and plantain cultivars; as well as to adapt management practices aimed at mitigating the effects of the presence of Fusarium wilt or Panama disease in banana production areas in the regions of Lassance, Nova Porteirinha, Capitão Enéias, Jaíba and Verdelândia located in the north of the State of Minas Gerais. Status: In progress Start date: Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| In previous projects, Embrapa Dairy cattle developed nanostructured intramammary formulations of mastitis, which show potential therapeutic use in the treatment of bovine keratoconjunctivitis. Infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis is a contagious disease that affects the eyes of cattle of all age groups, mainly calves, caused by Moraxella bovis. The disease is rarely fatal, but production losses are high. The costs caused by this disease involve weight loss, falling milk production and Status: Completed Start date: Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2013 |
| This project aims to evaluate the effects of food supplementation based on buriti fruits (Mauritia flexuosa) for the production of yellow-spotted river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis) in captivity, by means of zootechnical indices, hematological response, carcass yield and meat and fat composition of the animals. It is intended to generate a formulation of pelletized supplement based on buriti for farmed yellow-spotted river turtle, in addition to recommending quantity and period of supplementation Status: Completed Start date: Tue May 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2018 |
| Wheat production in Brazil has been insufficient to supply the internal market's demand, being thus necessary to increase production, productivity levels as well as cultivated areas. The planting process in the Cerrado region in Central Brazil is seen as an alternative to decrease wheat production's deficit in the country once the region offers advantages such as high luminosity, dry climate, higher possibility of disease control, and industrial quality grains. The types of cultivation in the re Status: Completed Start date: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
| This project has developed approaches of analysis, categorization and disclosure of information regarding agricultural development in centers with expressive production of soy and sugarcane, and with focus on their relationship between land use and occupation dynamics, agricultural practices and other environmental and socio-economic variables. In the agro-environmental sense, the analysis and mapping were focused in processes of agricultural development, highlighting the importance of the secon Status: Completed Start date: Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| Despite agri-business's great importance, our principal products are exported in the form of commodities, without any quality specification. In order to commercialize them with quality attributes, it is necessary to make use of processes of quality determination and certification, at low costs, so that the price of the analyzed product won't rise significantly. Thus, it is necessary to develop ultrafast sensors that allow the analysis of thousands of samples an hour and non destructively, which Status: Completed Start date: Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| This project aimed to measure the area dedicated to the preservation of native vegetation inside rural properties in the state of Piauí. Based on a territorial section (state of Piauí) and the data declared in the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR), available in the Rural Environmental Registry System of the Ministry of the Environment (SICAR), an analysis of the territorial context of the areas dedicated to the preservation of native vegetation in rural areas was carried out using increasing an ... Status: Completed Start date: Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| The passage from traditional to modern agriculture in the Amazon has increased energy consumption, intensified the use of natural resources, replaced forest areas with monocultures, causing soil degradation and contamination of hydric resources as a consequence of excessive use of chemical products. The intensification in the use of pesticides, chemical fertilizers and mechanization has contributed to the expansion of monoculture plantations, reducing rural job offers, increasing landholding and Status: Completed Start date: Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| Family farming is an economically important segment nationwide, but has many weaknesses of social and technological order. Parallel to this, concerns about the negative environmental impacts of agriculture, livestock and forestry are getting increasingly important on the agenda of society, and the use of inadequate agricultural practices is one of the main causes of degradation of cultivated areas. Given the growing worldwide demand for food, fiber, wood and biofuels, and the consequent need for Status: Completed Start date: Thu May 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014 |
| Agroforestry systems (AFS) combine planting trees with agricultural crops or animal husbandry and are considered suitable production systems for the Amazon region because they reconcile agricultural production with the conservation of natural resources, which is a great challenge today. Status: Completed Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012 |
| The project aims to develop/finalize, validate and disseminate technologies that strengthen the chain of production of family-based citrus, collaborating for its socio-economic-environmental sustainability, basically through prospecting in germplasm and the development of products rich in bioactive compounds. In order to conduct the project, a multidisciplinary and interinstitutional team was formed, composed of researchers, extension agents, representatives of the productive chain and consumers Status: Completed Start date: Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017 |
| The aim of this research is to determine the forage yield, quality and physiology of a Panicum spp. cv. Massai pasture in response to two grazing intensitiesand three irrigation depths. In Tocantins State, the difference between the average monthly minimum and maximum temperature reaches more than 16ºC, evenso, the lowest base temperature observed does not compromise the development of tropical forages. More than 93% of rainfall occurs between October andApril. This way, between May and Septembe ... Status: Completed Start date: Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014 |
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The intense world demand for food together with environmental issues related to the sustainable use of natural resources draw a picture of search for the maximum efficiency in agricultural productivity, which involves greater efficiency in monitoring crop areas. Analytical tools capable of encompassing sample variation and territorial reach demand high costs for their operation and for the replication of results. Remote sensing has proved a very efficient tool for mapping/monitoring agricultu ...Status: Completed Start date: Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
| Surveys carried out by Emater-MG (Corporation of Technical Assistance and Rural Extension of the State of Minas Gerais0) estimate that in the State of Minas Gerais there are approximately 30 thousand artisanal cheese producers. Recent studies in Alagoa-MG and neighboring municipalities characterized the region's milk and cheese production systems in terms of environment (climate, relief, water, soil, etc.) and aspects related to social (producers), microbiological (water, milk, yeast, brine and Status: Completed Start date: Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2021 |
| Irrigation is the largest consumer of available water resources and the project will act on one of the main bottlenecks of this higher water consumption through irrigation, which is the management of water that enters the producers' plots and maintains a high water demand. The objective goal is to provide alternatives for increasing the water use efficiency of banana, papaya and pineapple fruit. The alternatives to be explored are the use of plant density increase for the banana tree; the use of Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| The project was conducted in order to identify and evaluate alternatives to produce genetically modified embryos and, subsequently, genetically modified ruminant animals, by identifying methods or procedures that enable the production of ruminant transgenic embryos in a more efficient way, reducing time and costs. Such procedures, associated with the insertion of genes of interest, may allow the generation of genetically modified animals capable of producing recombinant proteins important for an Status: Completed Start date: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
| Cheloniculture is the practice of producing captive chelonians for commercial purposes, with a focus on human food. It is aimed at conserving chelonian species threatened by predatory hunting, mainly done for the trafficking and commercialization of wild animal meat. Although cheloniculture has been legal for decades, it is still developing slowly due to various factors, including the cost of the final product compared to the product from trafficking. This makes the products in this chain niche Status: Completed Start date: Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2022 |
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Amazalert was an international research project coordinated by the Alterra Institute at Wageningen University (Netherlands). Embrapa participated in the development of an Early Warning System for detecting signs of large-scale degradation of the Amazon forest, to anticipate impacts caused by climate change and deforestation. The team of scientists featured researchers from 14 research institutions in the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Austria, Germany, Bolivia and Colombia. Multidisciplinar ...Status: Completed Start date: Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
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The limited knowledge concerning the diversity of species of fruit fly species (Diptera: Tephritidae), on top of the reduced number of researchers working on this biological group in the Amazon region, has motivated the structuring of the Amazonian Network of Fruit Fly Research, a project financed by Embrapa (Call 05/2006 - "Agrofuturo"; SEG code 02.06.05.003), for the period of 36 months (August/2007 to July/2010). The Network has Embrapa Amapá as executing institution and gathers researcher ...Status: Completed Start date: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
| This component project uses a transversal approach and is responsible for the search and analysis of advanced information technologies (TIs), and their operation in order to perform more efficient simulations that deal with impacts caused by climate change in the country's agriculture. The project is linked to the project "Simulation of Agricultural Future Scenarios from the Regional Climate Change Projections" and will take a look at technology alternatives in a system of high performance paral ... Status: Completed Start date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| Brazil leads the research on reproduction of forage plants, but faces as a challenge the low diversity of pastures, mainly formed by apomictic plants. Apomixia - asexual reproduction by seeds - is an area of biotechnology with great potential to optimize the genetic improvement of these species, as it develops genetic materials and procedures for plant cloning by the direct use of seeds. This project proposes the determination of strategies to regulate the genes associated with the mode of repro Status: Completed Start date: Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015 |
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Project focused on the development of collaborative research on the ecology, management and technological processing of andiroba oil, strengthening the integration of related countries and the conservation of the Amazon rainforest in the region of the Guiana shield. Among the specificities of this study are the comparison of traditional andiroba oil extraction processes in the Brazilian Amazon and in Suriname; monitoring the production and physical-chemical quality of oil associated with best ...Status: Completed Start date: Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014 |
| Initiatives aim to articulate the socio-economic development in the Amazon by means of environmental conservation. In this context, this region's zoogenetic resources are little known and consequently, are poorly managed. The ex situ raising of wild animals that present bio-business potential in Pará, such as the collared peccary, is regarded as a new venture focused on bio-business in the state of Pará. This proposal seeks to disclose bio-technological initiatives that focus on the use of natur ... Status: Completed Start date: Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| The aim of this project was to strengthen the SUSTRURAL array - a set of Embrapa projects related to environmental rehabilitation and compliance in the rural landscape of the Atlantic Rainforest in Southern and Southeastern Brazil - based on deeper integration and training of component members. Status: Completed Start date: Mon Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016 |
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One of the challenges smallholders in Northern Ethiopia face is improving food security in periods of low rainfall supply by identifying strategies to restore soil water stocks. In that region, over 50% of the water available for agriculture is lost due to issues like direct evaporation, surface runoff and deep drainage. The hypothesis is that the use of low cost technologies and intelligent solutions to identify strategies for water resupply and/or water storage in low cost containers like c ...Status: Completed Start date: Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015 |
| Enzymes have their function essentially determined by specific residue known as catalytic residue. Most methods to predict enzyme catalytic residue uses at least one criterion of primary sequence conservation. Considering that the function is a product of the structure, this project aims to identify among the structural descriptors available in the Sting software database those of higher relevance in the discrimination of catalytic residue. Thus, the project will propose a new enzyme classificat Status: Completed Start date: Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| This project aims to study nutritional factors and establish new types of diets for tilapia ( Oreochromis niloticus), pintado ( Pseudoplatystoma corruscans), tambaqui ( Colossoma macropomum) and marine shrimp ( Litopenaeus vannamei.), species inserted into production chains still incipient in Brazil. Due to the differentiated state of each species, studies were conducted in oreder to fill the nutritional gaps in key technological areas in which each species had greate ... Status: Completed Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007 |
| The epiteliochorial nature of pig placenta lines it against the transfer of maternal immunoglobulins to the embryo, and hence, the piglets depend on the ingestion of colostrum to acquire passive immunity. Colostrum is rich in immunoglobulins and in immune cells besides other bioactive compounds that jointly nourish and regulate biological functions. However, little is known about the role of some of these components, such as cytokines, for instance, which participate in the innate and adaptative Status: Completed Start date: Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2018 |
| Due to the importance of leguminous vegetables for human diets, the year of 2016 was declared by FAO the International Year of Pulses. Pulses are well appreciated in Brazil, and are consumed either fresh or in the form of processed products. Internal consumption has required frequent imports of such pulses; for peas and chickpeas alone, they represented US$ 14 million a year. The domestic market tends to expand due to the constant association of such foods with a series of attributes of high foo Status: Completed Start date: Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016 |
| This work's proposal is to develop a pilot project focused on carrying out two objectives that target the corporative environment. The first is to build for the visually impaired a website that will allow them to access Embrapa's findings in the fields of science, technology and innovation. The second aims to adapt the technologies into specific material that would allow these persons' interaction with Embrapa's science and technology research findings in key places such as fairs, exhibitions or Status: Completed Start date: Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007 |
| Grassland intensification strategies such as fertilization and irrigation can be used to shorten the period required for recovery of paddocks under rotational management and thus to increase the productivity. In rotational stocking grazing, the definition of the resting and grazing periods of the paddocks, besides determining the total number of paddocks, exerts a great influence on the quantity and quality of the forage produced. The post-grazing residue, determined by the grazing period and th Status: Completed Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007 |
| The use of technology based on computer vision and image processing has proven to be quite effective in automating the process of meat inspection routine. Countries like Australia and the USA have already used some computational methods for classifying and typifying carcasses in their industries. Based on this scenario of modernization of beef cattle farming and the significant production and export of meat in Brazil, there is a high demand to parameterize and enable automation processes for eva Status: Completed Start date: Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2022 |
| The quick diagnosis of diseases in plants that have economic value is essential to guarantee food security and avoid larger losses as a consequence of disease spreading. Two major problems may hinder this goal: 1) the permanent monitoring of all the plants by people capable of detecting diseases is mostly unviable; 2) in many cases, the person who detects the symptoms doesn't have enough knowledge to identify their causes. Despite the existance of solutions that explore technology as a facilitat Status: Completed Start date: Thu Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2013 |
| The overall objective is to develop disease-resistant banana and plantain cultivars with an agronomic and sensory profile in line with market demands. Status: In progress Start date: Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2021 |
| The project aims to develop and / or recommend cultivars of bananas and plantains resistant to the main pests (nematodes and rhizome borers) and diseases (Sigatoka-black or Sigatoka-yellow or wilt Fusarium) with agronomic and sensory characteristics aligned with the main demands of the Brazilian fruit agribusiness.The research is carried out based on conventional breeding, via crossbreeding, adding advanced biology tools, with a focus on reducing time and increasing efficiency in the selection o Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| Develop and or recommend banana and plantain cultivars with resistance to the main pests (nematodes or rhizome borer) and diseases (black Sigatoka or yellow Sigatoka or Panama desease), and with agronomic and sensory characteristics aligned with the main demands of Brazilian fruit agribusiness. The strategy uses conventional breeding via crosses, adding advanced biology tools, focusing on reducing time and increasing the efficiency of selection of promising genotypes in the progenies, aiming at Status: Completed Start date: Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017 |
| The general objective is to evaluate the potential of microorganisms isolated from the rhizosphere soil and internal tissues of Ananas spp., from different environments, in the development of pineapple seedlings in order to develop technological packages for the production of healthy pineapple plants, as well as to understand the role of these microorganisms to aid plant defense against fusariosis and pineapple wilt in order to obtain plants with greater vigor and tolerance to biotic stresses. < ... Status: Completed Start date: Wed May 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| This project aims to contribute to improving the management, quality and biosafety of commercial egg-laying barns, through the implementation of best practices in production and in the training of technicians and farmers. It is aimed at smallholders and mid-sized family farmers whose egg production derives from hens raised in traditional aviaries (California-type layer cages). Status: Completed Start date: Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015 |
| This study analyses the mobilization experience of two groups of women which practice mangaba extractivism and call themselves pickers. They inhabit restinga areas (sandbanks) and tabuleiros (tablelands) in the Brazilian northeast and fields of the north, where they practice various activities (fishing, handicraft, tourism wage-earning, etc.), which are essential to their family's reproduction. This project's goal is to analyze the mobilization experience of women mangaba fruit pickers in the co Status: Completed Start date: Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| Bifequali TT takes technologies to beef cattle farmers, with a focus on capacity-building for technicians. The participating properties are monitored and assessed so that the impact of the application of Embrapa's recommendations can be learned. Status: Completed Start date: Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014 |
| Eucalyptus cropping has been growing in Brazil in the last few years and has become an important alternative for rural areas. With expressive participation in the country's trade balance, it is moved by the demand for paper, cellulose, timber and evergy. Since 2009, Embrapa Satellite Monitoring has carried out research to define efficient sustainability indicators from the assessment of tree and bush flora biodiversity and faunal biodiversity, in addition to proposing forest management actions. Status: Completed Start date: Mon Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2013 |
| Biochar is a carbon-rich material that is distinct from charcoal and other similar materials dueto its use as a soil conditioner to improve soil quality. One factor limiting understanding andvalidation of biochar as a soil conditioner and carbon sink is the lack of long-duration studies inthe field. Such studies are essential, since biochar can be produced from a wide variety of rawmaterials and thermic processes, leading to very diverse products. Most studies are done ingreenhouses; due to cost Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| The Basic Sanitation System for Rural Areas was initially composed of two technologies, the "Biodigester Septic Tank" and the "Embrapa Chlorinator", developed by the researcher Antônio Pereira de Novaes (deceased). Such technologies, due to their social and national reach, have provided great returns to Brazilian society. Embrapa Instrumentation has made efforts to disseminate the system in the entire domestic territory through public and private partnerships, however, it has observed the need t ... Status: Completed Start date: Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| Psyllids are small jumping insects in the superfamily Psylloidea (Hemiptera) which damage tovarious agricultural and forest crops. Some psyllids can transmit bacterial diseases to plants:the Asian citrus psyllid (Diaphorina Citra Kuwayama) transmits Huanglongbing disease (citrusgreening), currently considered the most serious citrus disease in Asia and America. There arean estimated 1000 psyllid species in Brazil, but approximately 90% have not yet beendescribed; as of 2012, only 73 species had Status: In progress Start date: Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2018 |
| Milk production systems in Brazil are based, for the most part, on the use of tropical grass pastures as the main source of nutrients for animals. Keeping high levels of pasture-based milk production depends on the following factors: supply of forage in quantity and quality, maximum duration of the grazing season, rational use of energy, protein and mineral supplements, and definition of management strategy that aims at productivity by area. Therefore, intensive pasture management results in for Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| Milk production systems in Brazil are based, for the most part, on the use of tropical grass pastures as the main source of nutrients for animals. Keeping high levels of pasture-based milk production depends on the following factors: supply of forage in quantity and quality, maximum duration of the grazing season, rational use of energy, protein and mineral supplements, and definition of management strategy that aims at productivity by area. Therefore, intensive pasture management results in for Status: Completed Start date: Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017 |