Palm Oil Project: Agro-forest Systems in Family Farming
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Palm Oil Project: Agro-forest Systems in Family Farming
The adoption of agro-forest systems (SAFs) which are based in (agro) ecological practices has great potential for generating social, economic and environmental benefits, above all to family farmers. Thus, it was implanted, in the county of Tomé-Açu, Pará, SAFs composed by annual and perennial species, combined with Palm Oil Trees (Elaeis guineensis), in three family estates. In each one of them, the SAFs were installed after the area's preparation without the use of fires, based in the principles of minimal culture and no-tilling, without revolving the soil with the exception of one farm, whose previous use of the land (degraded grassland) required harrowing. Manual and mechanical (TRITUCAP) grindng were used in the preparation of the land, which leaves on the soil the previous vegetation in the form of mulch. The project is part of a partnership between Natura Products' Innovation and Technology Limited, Tomé-Açu Mixed Agricultural Cooperative (CAMTA) and Oriental Amazon Embrapa, whose goal is to evaluate the impact of Palm Oil SAFs over the cycle of carbon and nutrients, soil quality, pollination, and fauna and flora variety, as a result of the area's preparation and arrangement of forest and agricultural species.
Ecosystem: Amazonic
Status: Completed Start date: Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 Conclusion date: Tue Jul 31 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012
Head Unit: Embrapa Eastern Amazon
Project leader: Osvaldo Ryohei Kato
Contact: osvaldo.kato@embrapa.br
Keywords: biodiversidade, SAF, sequestro de carbono, Serviços ambientais