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