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| The presence of Staphylococcus spp. in milk and milk products is a concern for dairy farmers, industry and government agencies responsible for public health. Because these microorganisms are important pathogens of mastitis, the udder of the infected animal is a major source of contamination of raw milk. S. aureus is the species most frequently associated with mastitis and outbreaks or cases of food poisoning. Other species of Staphylococcus have also been associated, but Status: Completed Start date: Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007 |
| The culture of black pepper ( Piper nigrum L.) is of great socio-economical importance in the northern states of Brazil, Pará especially. However, its production has been suffering the incidence of diseases such as the one caused by the Cucumber mosaic virus(CMV) and the Piper yellow mottle virs (PYMoV). Although these viruses have already been reported in many of the Brazilian states, there are too few studies that address the virus diseases which affect this culture. Hence, this project ... Status: Completed Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007 |
| Pectoral myopathies are among the key challenges the poultry industry struggles with currently. Such issues have been increasingly pointed out at post-mortem examination at the slaughter line, reaching up to 90% of the overall broilers slaughtered. These myopathies harm meat quality and take to carcass discard, provoking estimated economic losses of more than 200 million dollars annually. White Striping (WS) and Wooden Breast (WB) are the most prevalent pectoral myopathies due to intense genetic Status: In progress Start date: Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2020 |
| Heat along with high humidity is one of the causes of impaired milk production and fertility of cattle, especially in the summer or in tropical and semitropical regions. Such problems can be aggravated with the prospect of global warming. In the hottest regions of Brazil there is a preference for crossbred Holstein (H) X zebu (Z), mainly Gir (G) cattle that form the Girolando synthetic breed whose composition is mainly ⅝ GxH. Girolando animals are more tolerant to heat than breeds of European or Status: Completed Start date: Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015 |
| Heat together with high humidity is one of the causes of reductions in milk production and cattle fertility, especially in summer or in tropical and semitropical regions. The forecast of global warming may worsen such problem. In the warmer regions of Brazil, there is a preference for crossbreed cattle of the Holstein (H) and Zebu (Z) breeds, mainly Gir (G), which form the synthetic Girolando breed whose composition is ⅝ GxH. Animals of these breeds are more tolerant to heat than breeds of Europ Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
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The Environmental Risk Assessment (ARA) of pesticides, under the responsibility of Ibama, is part of the procedure for registering a pesticide in Brazil. The main objective of this project was to compare the worst-case scenario adopted by Ibama for the ARA of pesticides in water bodies, with the most representative scenarios of soybean cultivation prevalent in Brazil. A methodology was developed to map water basins with potential for contamination by pesticides used in agriculture. Through it ...Status: Completed Start date: Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014 |
| Black pepper ( Piper nigrum L.) is highly important in Brazilian agri-business, and it currently occupies the fourth position in the world's market export rates, the state of Pará being responsible for 85% of the national production. In this context, the emergence of fusariosis, caused by the Fusarium solani f. sp. Piperis fungus, has been the source of significant losses to the black pepper culture, especially in Pará. Studies have confirmed the narrow genetic base and the suscep ... Status: Completed Start date: Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| A country's sovereignty is directly related to ensuring the three types of security: food, energy, and territorial security. Basically, food security and renewable energy security depend on agriculture and its water resources. Brazil, which contains about 12% of the world availability of water resources, is a privileged country in view of the possibility of using these resources in different sectors, of which the agricultural sector, as a broad concept that involves agriculture, husbandry, and f Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2013 |
| This project arose from the need to generate and consolidate geospatial databases, implementing an infrastructure in order to organize and make this data available to improve Embrapa's RD&I capacity. As well as to allow sharing of the data collection to other government agencies and to society, and also the establishment of a multiuser reference center for obtaining spectroradiometric measurements of targets of interest to tropical agriculture. The implementation of Embrapa's Spatial Data Infras ... Status: Completed Start date: Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014 |
| This project aims at strengthening bilateral cooperation in Science and Technology between Brazil and China, for the development of the bamboo production chain in the Brazilian territory, through activities stipulated by the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the Brazilian and Chinese governments in April 2011, for the purpose to intensifying the sharing of scientific knowledge and technologies between Brazilian and Chinese research institutions and the exchange of technological information w Status: Completed Start date: Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014 |
| The collared peccary ( Tayassu tajacu) are rustic and gregarious animals who provide meat and leather of excellent quality, being thus an important source of protein especially to the subsistence of the Amazon's needy population. The use of this animal is, however, being done without planned hunting, being thus associated with the destruction of their natural habitat and, consequently, the loss of these resources, which are scarcely known. Status: Completed Start date: Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007 |
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Smallholder Capsicum pepper growers in Uganda are operating below the ideal levels of agricultural production due to a lack of improved varieties, low quality seed systems and the devastation caused by pests and diseases. The damages caused by diseases are aggravated by the cultivation of susceptible germplasm and the use of poor quality seeds. In order to increase production and competitiveness in the market, farmers need to have access to clean seeds of cultivars that are tolerant to diseas ...Status: Completed Start date: Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015 |
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Agriculture is one of the economic sectors that are most heavily influenced by the climate and meteorological conditions: from sowing to harvest, various agricultural activities are promoted depending on the weather. Thus previous knowledge of such conditions through the daily monitoring and use of weather forecast information is an essential tool for agriculture. One of the ways to get weather information to support the timely decision-making of farmers is through agrometeorological monitor ...Status: Completed Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012 |
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From an economic point of view, Brazilian agribusiness has been recognized as modern, prosperous, profitable and competitive activity whose magnitude has established Brazil as a world agricultural power. The activity accounts for 26% of the gross domestic product, 42% of the volume of Brazilian exports, and 37% of the total number of jobs in the country. The finding from this scenario is that development in the country is strongly dependent on an increasing production of agricultural products ...Status: Completed Start date: Mon Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2013 |
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Bacteriophages are widely distributed in nature and act specifically on bacteria, being an alternative therapeutic option to antimicrobials. The availability of a biological asset that prevents or reduces the use of antimicrobials and applies to the control of Salmonella in poultry production is desirable for two reasons: 1) due to the social and economic importance of poultry production for Brazil; 2) the need to seek alternatives to the use of antimicrobials to preserve the effectiveness of ...Status: Completed Start date: Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| The characterization of alternative poultry production systems and its value chain is going to allow the identification of potential threats that affect the survival and productivity of fowl populations and provide opportunities for interventions in such systems. Status: Completed Start date: Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014 |
| Embrapa has built a highly conducive environment for the use of strategic and competitive intelligence to support action planning and scheduling and to provide important information to the different agents in the supply chains to which it relates. This is expressed in Embrapa's Agropensa (Strategic Intelligence System) dedicated to producing and disseminating knowledge and information in support of the formulation of research, development and innovation strategies for the corporation and its par Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| Embrapa has built a highly conducive environment for the use of strategic and competitive intelligence to support action planning and scheduling and to provide important information to the different agents in the supply chains to which it relates. This is expressed in Embrapa's Agropensa (Strategic Intelligence System) dedicated to producing and disseminating knowledge and information in support of the formulation of research, development and innovation strategies for the corporation and its par Status: Completed Start date: Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017 |
| Northern Ghana is the most important region of this African country for the production of cereals and legumes, but the soils are degraded and lack nitrogen and phosphorus, basic nutrients for the growth of such crops. Previous projects therein had proven that the use of quality inoculants can improve nodulation and increase grain production by 30% to 50%. This project aimed to effectively increase the yields of cowpeas, peanuts and soybeans for smallholders in the region, based on the use of loc Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| This project aims to expand the supply of drought-tolerant cowpea cultivars with high protein content for farmers in Uganda, a country in the East of Africa. The development of the cultivars will result in materials specifically generated for semiarid conditions, with disease tolerance and market value Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2013 |
| Among the pathogens infecting grapevines, viruses particularly stand out due to the damages they cause and the degeneration (loss of vigor) of the plants they affect throughout the years, resulting in reduced production and quality of grapes. This could even economically impair this activity. In specific combinations of rootstock/cultivar and viral species, grapevine viral diseases can be latent and could thus go undetected and be successively propagated, resulting in high levels of infection in Status: Completed Start date: Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012 |
| The identification of animals with more efficiency in feed utilization is one of the alternatives to overcome the challenges as increased production costs, increased consumer awareness regarding food safety, animal welfare and environmental impacts of the agriculture and livestock. As feeding expenses account for the main cost of livestock activity, differences among animals in converting diet to beef and milk are of great relevance. Animals that use feed more efficiently need to consume less to Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| The identification of animals with more efficiency in feed utilization is one of the alternatives to overcome the challenges as increased production costs, increased consumer awareness regarding food safety, animal welfare and environmental impacts of the agriculture and livestock. As feeding expenses account for the main cost of livestock activity, differences among animals in converting diet to beef and milk are of great relevance. Animals that use feed more efficiently need to consume less to Status: Completed Start date: Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017 |
| Recent evidence from observational studies and controlled clinical trials indicates that milk fat, although predominantly saturated, has neutral or positive effects on cardiometabolic health. Such benefits have been attributed to the complex and unique chemical nature of milk fat, which contains several compounds potentially beneficial to health, such as butyric acid (C4:0), vaccenic acid ( trans-11 C18:1), rumenic acid ( cis--9, trans-11 CLA), oleic acid ( cis-9 C18 ... Status: Completed Start date: Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016 |
| Recent evidence from observational studies and controlled clinical trials indicates that milk fat, although predominantly saturated, has neutral or positive effects on cardiometabolic health. Such benefits have been attributed to the complex and unique chemical nature of milk fat, which contains several compounds potentially beneficial to health, such as butyric acid (C4:0), vaccenic acid ( trans-11 C18:1), rumenic acid ( cis--9, trans-11 CLA), oleic acid ( cis-9 C18 ... Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| Development programs aimed at increasing production, improve milk quality and assist genetic selection of livestock are strategic initiatives to modernize the dairy chain in Brazil. Farmers, mostly family-scale, need special guidance to access technological information and training programs to increase production and improve productivity of the dairy herd. In addition, action plans and strategies to improve milk quality are essential in order to promote their inclusion in the formal dairy market Status: Completed Start date: Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2013 |
| The development of new technologies for the agricultural sector from cutting-edge areas such as nanotechnology is a demand Embrapa has recognized. The crosscutting and pervasive nature of developments in this area also makes it difficult to understand models that allow these new technologies to actually reach the production sector. It is evident that when a company in the food sector assimilates new technology, its behavior is structurally different from that of a company in the plastics industr Status: Completed Start date: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
| The Innovation Network in Animal Reproduction adds skills among the different teams that work in the area of animal breeding biotechnology at Embrapa with the aim of increasing the competitiveness of animal production chains in Brazil. Among the objectives, the following stand out: creation of new technological platforms in this area, transfer of technologies generated by the component projects and consolidation of Embrapa as a reference institution for the formation of public policies related Status: Completed Start date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015 |
| Crop areas in Mato Grosso have undergone a profound transformation in biology, physics and soil chemistry due to the conduction of production systems that can lead to a reduction in the organic matter content, such as, for example, conventional planting and succession soy-corn production, contributing to the degradation of soil attributes. These areas, used as crops in the Cerrado and Amazon biomes and in the transition between them, have presented problems, causing productivity losses and an in Status: Completed Start date: Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2020 |
| Sugarcane is one of the pillars of the Brazilian agricultural economy. Productivity gains combined with an industrial activity developed for use in the sugar and ethanol production have led researchers to seek agroindustrial management strategies to reduce costs. This project proposes the application of diazotrophic bacteria as a biological input to fully or partially meet sugarcane's nutritional needs with regard to nitrogen. Status: Completed Start date: Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007 |
| Agriculture is responsible for about 30% of the Brazilian Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and some of the challenges of the sector include: reducing production costs, increasing productivity and minimizing environmental impacts. In this scenario, the adoption of inoculants based on the process of biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) is quite welcome, once it is the only natural biological process of obtaining nitrogen, in contrast with the use of nitrogen fertilizers that release about a ton of gree Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
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| This project's goal is to keep in situ conservation Centers for large size species and continue the base activities of collection, conservation, characterization and interchange of germoplasm, run under the coordination of Oriental Amazon Embrapa in partnership with: four other Embrapa Units (Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Mid North, Pantanal and Roraima), universities (UEMA, UNB, UPIS, UFG, UFPA and UFRA), State Research Firms (EPAGRI), breeders' organizations (Brazilian Associati Status: Completed Start date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| Araucaria angustifolia, also known as the Paraná pine, is the symbol of southern Brazil and aunique component of the mixed ombrophile forest (also known as Araucaria forest) that is partof the Atlantic Forest biome. After heavy logging in the twentieth century, this species wasincluded on Brazil's official list of threatened flora species, which significantly diminished itsuse in economic activities, as well as scientific studies of this species. Recent scientific researchhas investigated ways f ... Status: Completed Start date: Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2020 |
| This project involved five Institutional Collections of Microorganisms (CIs) and five Working Collections (CTs) associated with three of the CIs. Each CI was dedicated to a specific Institutional Collection, and was based in an Embrapa's Decentralized Unit, as follows: Collection of Microorganisms of Agroindustrial Interest (Embrapa Grape & Wine), Collection of Microorganisms of Interest to Agroindustry and Livestock (Embrapa Dairy Cattle), Collection of Microorganisms of Interest for Swine and ... Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| The project "An Integration of Mitigation and Adaptation Options for Sustainable Livestock Production under Climate Change", known as AnimalChange, is focused on research about mitigation and adaptation options aimed at the sustainable development of animal production in Europe, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. The program's specific goals are as follows: quantifying and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from livestock systems; assessing the impacts, adaptation and vulne ... Status: Completed Start date: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
| Riverside communities experience many deficiencies in electricity supply and basic sanitation. Regarding forest products management there is a dependency of açaí and limited use of other species. Thus, the project located at Ilha das Cinzas – Pará state, aims to: evaluate agroforestry systems with ‘pau mulato’ and other arboreal and agricultural species; generate actual technical indices to the management of native açaí grooves through its mapping and monitoring along with participating families ... Status: Completed Start date: Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015 |
| Leaf-cutter ants (Atta spp. and Acromyrmex spp.) use fresh vegetation to cultivate the fungusthey eat, and consequently can have an economic impact on the agroforestry system as theymay cut and utilize various species that humans cultivate. In forestry, leaf-cutter ants are themost significant pest in pine and eucalyptus plantations because of the damage they cause andtheir broad range. Forest companies have created teams specifically to address this problem,principally through granulated ant ba Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| Integration systems involving crops, livestock and forestry (ICLF) have been gaining more space in national livestock over the last few years. The implementation of these systems can offer alternatives to ecological, economic and social issues in different regions, mainly in areas that make up fragile biomes such as the Amazon. Thus, the use of integrated production systems is presented as one of the best options to guarantee improvements in production with sustainability. With the conduction of Status: Completed Start date: Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2018 |
| Pasture degradation is one of the main problems of Brazilian cattle farming. Several strategies to recover the productivity of degraded pastures have been developed by Embrapa and other research and education institutions. In such studies, reducing the costs of the recovery of degraded pastures has been one of their main focuses. Integrated crop-livestock systems (ICLS) have proved to be some of the best alternatives to reduce the costs of pasture fertilization. ICLS have potential to increase t Status: Completed Start date: Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007 |
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This project aims to increase the adoption of fruit fly management practices for agricultural communities in Uganda, a country on the African continent. The proposal came about due to the observance of damage and economic losses in orchards in Uganda, caused by fruit flies, especially Bactrocera dorsalis, which stems from the low use of efficient management techniques. Although the infestation is lower in farmers' orchards that use management techniques such as toxic baits, methyl euge ...Status: Completed Start date: Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016 |
| Under the strong impact of the demand for energy and the need to develop alternative technologies to replace oil, the sugarcane industry is expanding and boosting interest in the assessment of both private and social costs and benefits in sugar and energy production. The importance of environmental issues in society has inserted this topic in the agenda of public and private planners through their concern with the preservation of water resources, soil fertility, and biodiversity, as well as with Status: Completed Start date: Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012 |
| Epidemics of Diseases whose Pathogens are Transmitted by Insects (EDTIs) are frequent and impactful in the areas of human, animal and plant health. Due to its complexity, understanding the dynamics of EDTIs requires the accumulation of epidemiological data from monitoring networks and the use of models that establish the chain of relations between their components and calculate, under environmental oscillations, the rate and progress of the biological processes. This project proposes to develop Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| Epidemics of Diseases whose Pathogens are Transmitted by Insects (EDTIs) are frequent and impactful in the areas of human, animal and plant health. Due to its complexity, understanding the dynamics of EDTIs requires the accumulation of epidemiological data from monitoring networks and the use of models that establish the chain of relations between their components and calculate, under environmental oscillations, the rate and progress of the biological processes. This project proposes to develop Status: Completed Start date: Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017 |
| The cattle raising activity in the Amazon has generated degradation of millions of hectares of grasslands, associated to economical decadence due to the low productivity and a series of global factors, requiring thus alternatives capable of overcoming these limitations, in addition to the ability to re-incorporate this great land extension to the productive process. In this sense, this project aims to evaluate, adapt and develop innovating systems of integration agriculture-cattle farming (LP), Status: Completed Start date: Tue Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
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The Amapá state has extensive forests and savannas, which are important carbon stocks being negatively affected due to agricultural, forestry and industrial activities. Thus the project aims to develop a methodology applicable to the entire State of Amapá, aiming to reach all types of existing vegetation, being the basis for estimates of forest biomass and the quantification of carbon stocks, in addition to enabling the monitoring of changes caused on biomass due to the economic activities de ...Status: Completed Start date: Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016 |
| Waste management is the primary source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in pig production systems. Waste storage and untreated manure application to the soil results in high GHG emissions, mostly methane and nitrous oxide, accounting for 4.9% of all agricultural emissions in Brazil. Unlike what occurs in beef cattle, in the confined production of pigs, the main source of waste production is manure deposits. This characteristic makes it possible to significantly reduce the environmental impact a Status: Completed Start date: Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| The project aims to establish the best process conditions to maximize methane production for two substrates with high potential for biogas production, which are vegetable waste and palm oil production effluent (POME) and obtaining of synthesis gas from vegetable and POME biogas using as catalysts mixed oxides of Ni-Mg-Al enriched with praseodymium, continuing the work developed with simulated biogas. Another expected delivery is the characterization of the microbial community for correlation wit Status: In progress Start date: Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2021 |
| The strengthening of Embrapa's Low Carbon Brazilian Beef brand is the goal of this project, through the consolidation of a process of permanent mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHG) in pastures. The intent is to replace the use of nitrogen fertilizers, whose production entails high GHG emissions, by intercropping pastures with forage legumes that add nitrogen to the system via biological fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. In addition, the presence of legumes increases the pasture's protein supply, Status: In progress Start date: Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2020 |
| Status: Completed Start date: Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016 |