Resumo: The cerrados of Maranhão have stood out in grain production during the rainy season. However, the agricultural areas remain idle after grain harvest until the end of the dry season. An alternative for diversifying and intensifying the use of these areas is the crop-livestock integration system (CLI). The strategy used in this work consisted of evaluating a representative farm in the region in which the land use history was partly based on monoculture using soil tillage with disc harrows, and partly based on no-tillage seeding on a millet mulch. The prevailing activities in the farm were soybean - with an average crop yield of 47 bags (60 kg)/ha, corn - with an average crop yield of 132 bags (60 kg)/ha, and a small area dedicated to cattle production. This work aimed at assessing and validating an integrated production system under real conditions over time. It aimed also to introduce and disseminate the crop-livestock integration system in the cerrados of Maranhão.

Ano de publicação: 2015

Tipo de publicação: Artigo em anais e proceedings

Unidade: Embrapa Meio-Norte