The west of Paraná state produces large volumes of grains due to the availability of land well-suited for agriculture. Alongside significant grain production in the region, there are alsoproduction chains for pork, poultry, and fish, and collaborative efforts between producers,cooperatives, agroindustry, and rural extension. Grain and animal protein production createsmajor demand for forest biomass to dry grains, fire boilers in plants, heat poultry sheds, andother agribusiness activities that r ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

Assuming that about 80% of Brazilian pastures are degraded, the present project aims to solve this problem through the application of a biofertilizer based on bovine manure, coffee husks, decomposing bacteria and nitrogen fixing bacteria, mainly in those pastures cultivated and established with species of the genus Brachiaria. This is a project in public-private partnership with the company Justy BioSolutions Ltd, which has already been developing the biofertilizer in question, which is

Status: In progress     Start date: Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2021

Food education represents a factor of great importance to change malnutrition conditions, especially with regard to children, for a better quality of life based on the supply of accessible, low-cost foods with higher nutritional value. In view of such need, family farming represents a great potential to revert the malnutrition scenario, and the Food Biofortification project, led by Embrapa Food Agroindustry, is an alternative to offer technologies with nutritional added value aimed at family far

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Jun 22 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012

The bronze bug (Thaumastocoris peregrinus) is a sap-sucking insect that was introduced inBrazil in 2008, and causes significant losses in eucalyptus plantations. This pest can bebiologically controlled by releasing the parasitoid Cleruchoides noackae, which is native toAustralia and was introduced in Brazil in 2012. Although this parasitoid is being established inmany places, bronze bug outbreaks continue to be variable and severe. This project is intendedto minimize this situation by boosting t

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

Improper handling for tick control favors the proliferation of resistant populations. In addition, there is a growing demand for minimum use of chemicals to control pests, in order to preserve the environment and ensure free waste food. In this context, biological control using entomopathogenic nematodes may represent a promising alternative and, therefore, constitute line of research that has been conducted at Embrapa Dairy Cattle. In this stage of the survey, performed in partnership with UFRR

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011