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| The state of Pará is the largest northern producer of rice, corn and caupi beans, and the second largest soy producer. These species are cultivated in all the macro-regions of the state, where the Research and Technology Transfer Support Centers (NAPTs) of the Oriental Amazon are located. Based on this structure, this project aims to propose a strategy for the disclosure and transference of cultivars that are adequate to the region's producers' socio-economic and environmental conditions, throug ... Status: Completed Start date: 01/09/2007 |
| Bananas are one of Brazil's main agricultural products, having great economical significance. With a production reaching over five million tons annually, the fruit is a source of food for millions of people around the world. However, the plantations have been facing diseases and plagues which reduce the productive cycle once the local farmers are oblivious to certain agricultural practices. In the Amazon, the need to increase the crops is hindered by the lack of quality genetic strains for disse Status: Completed Start date: 01/04/2007 |
| The program of genetic improvement of the cupuaçu tree ( Theobroma grandiflorum) needs to tend to the demand of new cultivares, especially of those resistant to the Monilophthora perniciosa fungus, the agent responsible for causing the deformity known as witch's broom disease, and also to increase as much as possible the genetic base of planting material. This project aims to develop new technologies which promote the quick multiplication of selected cultivares, as well as to early select ... Status: Completed Start date: 01/04/2009 |
| Brazil is the fourth main world producer and exporter of black pepper, having had an estimated production of 33,000 tons in 2008. It is an important agricultural product to Pará's exporting schedules, being responsible for almost 90% of the entire country's production. The fusariosis disease caused by the Fusarium solani f. sp. Piperis fungus is the main cause for reduction of production cycles and increase in production costs. Once the disease is detected, the area is completely devasta ... Status: Completed Start date: 01/04/2009 |
| The last decades' expansion of açaí palm cultivated areas in the Amazon was significantly high, it being the source of new jobs and income opportunities for the local population. Even though, the participation of the açaí fruit in the region's agribusiness is rather inexpressive when compared to the volume of fruit production in Brazil. Status: Completed Start date: 01/08/2008 |
| The palm oil tree is, among the oilseeds, the most productive one, being able to reach an annual production of 10 tons/hectare in favorable conditions. The oil has many uses in food, pharmaceutical and chemical industries, and is also considered one of the best oils to produce biodiesel. In 2010, worldwide production of palm oil, cultivated in 14,99 million hectares, was of 45,09 million tons, while the production of soy oil, cultivated in 102,38 million hectares, was of 39,76 million tons. Palm Status: Completed Start date: 01/12/2009 |
| 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: 01/09/2007 |
| Peach Palm ( Bactris gasipaes, Palmae) was domesticated by the first peoples who developed food production systems in the Amazon, and possibly in other distribution areas of their forest relatives. Currently, this palm tree possesses great economical projection as a source of high quality heart-of-palm. In addition, the commercialization of peach-palm fruits represents great commercial importance in the state of Pará, once it is an income source for traditional small farmers/producers. < ... Status: Completed Start date: 01/02/2010 |
| The culture of yuca is traditionally rustic and adapted to soil and climate marginal conditions. It is also one of the most important sources of carbohydrates for 600 million people in tropical countries worldwide. Although the entire plant is consumed, the root is the most important part of the plant (Fukuda et al., 2008), and in Pará, the area destined to the cultivation of yucca is rather expressive, reaching 326,000 hectares in the year 2007, with a production of 5,211,503 root tons, a fact ... Status: Completed Start date: 01/02/2010 |
| Brazilian native fruit species are excellent generators of income and job opportunities to family farmers and micro-entrepreneurs especially from the Northern and Northeastern regions of Brazil. Species such as the Platonia insignis, Myrciaria dubia, Byrsonima crassifolia and the Spondia mombin L. have been frequently cited as economically promising in the field of family farming, due to the myriad of business possibilities linked to the ever increasing demand of Status: Completed Start date: 01/02/2008 |