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Brazil is the fifth largest producer of milk in the world with 35 billion liters produced in 2015. However, Brazilian dairy farmers still need improve milk quality and reduce production costs. One of the major limiting factors to increase the efficiency and competitiveness of milk production in Brazil is the management of dairy farms. In this context, Embrapa Gado de Leite developed, in partnership with the Central Cooperative of Rural Producers of Minas Gerais -(Cooperativa Central dos Produtor

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue May 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2018

The project's team aims to prospect demands based on the diagnosis and characterization of the main agrarian systems in East São Paulo - especially those linked to Family Farming - towards the joint and participatory generation of knowledge, processes, innovations, methodologies and technologies, aiming at the redesign and the sustainable management of agroecosystems based on Agroecology rules. The East São Paulo region is formed by 90 cities within the Cerrados and Atlantic Rainforest biomes, w ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue May 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2018

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O projeto propõe desenvolver mecanismos de Inteligência Territorial Estratégica para gerar e disponibilizar dados e análises, de modo a apoiar a tomada de decisão de entes públicos e privados ligados às atividades de caprinocultura e ovinocultura. A partir dessa sistematização de ações, será estruturado serviço de inteligência que fundamentará o Centro de Inteligência e Mercados de Caprinos e Ovinos (CIM), que disponibilizará ao público informações e serviços relacionados à atividade produtiva. ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2018

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O Território da Cidadania Zona Sul do Rio Grande do Sul está inserido no Bioma Pampa, na Encosta e Serra do Sudeste (extremo sul do estado), onde encontram-se os remanescentes mais austrais da Floresta Estacional Semidecidual. Esta formação florestal, assim como outras de vegetação nativa típicas desta região (vegetação savanoide, campos neutrais da Planície Costeira, etc.), encontra-se extremamente pressionada pela ação do homem. Além disso, grande parte dos remanescentes de vegetação nativa, f ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017

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A intensificação da produção, aumento da escala e integração das cadeias de suínos e aves, que trouxeram maior produtividade e ganhos de logística a toda a cadeia de produção de suínos e aves, também aumentaram os desafios ambientais relacionados ao tratamento e disposição dos resíduos da produção animal, emissão de gases de efeito estufa, conservação dos recursos hídricos e solo.

Há, portanto a necessidade de alternativas que permitam minimizar os impactos de forma eficiente e, na med ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017

Vaccination of animals as a method of controlling infectious diseases has been practiced for more than a century with remarkable success. The demand for more effective vaccines tends to grow as an alternative to the use of medicines and as a way to increase animal productivity, contribute to food safety and promote animal and human health. In addition, by minimizing the need for pharmacological interventions, the reduction of drug residues in the environment and in food is favored. As the use of

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017

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

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Um Processo de Fermentação em Estado Sólido (FES) pode ser descrito como o crescimento de micro-organismos em substratos sólidos, ou dentro deles, na ausência de água livre, tendo sido usados por milhares anos no preparo de comidas tradicionais tais como tempeh, shoyu, e miso, em países orientais, e pão, iogurte e queijo em países ocidentais. Processos de FES ainda carecem de conhecimento suficiente para se propor um escalonamento superior, ou seja, após experimentos em bancada, geralmente feito ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016

This project aims to develop an open access digital platform in which data from Federal Government social programs focusing on farmers are available for crossings and spatial visualization. The tool was requested by the National Secretariat for Food and Nutritional Security of the former Ministry of Social Development (Sesan / MDS), and consists of a geoweb with information that allows the elaboration of coverage maps for five social programs: Food Acquisition (PAA), Promotion of Rural Produc

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Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016

The Precision Agriculture (PA) network, coordinated by Embrapa, has obtained significant results in terms of knowledge on the variability of the production and environmental parameters of plants, pests and diseases of diverse crops such as soybean, corn, cotton, wheat, eucalyptus, sugarcane Sugar, orange, grape, apple and peach.

The network made possible the integration of research efforts in the theme, with the participation of more than 150 researchers, 21 Embrapa Units, more than 5

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Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016