According to a mapping made by the Brazilian Family Budget Survey, which investigates individual food consumption in a total sample of homes, there is a scenario that favors an epidemic of obesity and other non-communicable chronic conditions related to excessive and/or unbalanced food consumption. Thus encouraging the consumption of vegetables helps healthy diets, since they are served on the side of a protein and a carbohydrate. Vegetables are low in calories and rich in water, fiber, vitamins

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

The project aimed to study the use of crude glycerin produced by biodiesel plants as feed for dairy cows as an alternative to reduce the use of maize, an energy source with increasingly higher international prices, and thus increase the sustainability of dairy production. Research work carried out in other countries suggests that glycerol is the main component of crude glycerin, an energetic nutrient efficiently used by ruminants. . Thus, this project considered three main strategies to address

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009

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

In recent years, there has been a tremendous advance in the frontier of knowledge in advanced biology. The impacts of this advance can be observed in the areas of molecular and cellular biology, with the mastery of gene engineering techniques, which led to the cloning of animal cells in the early 2000s, unprecedented in Brazil, and more recently to the emergence of new Areas of science, such as nanotechnology, epigenetics and genomics, among others. The project seeks to incorporate these advance

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015

Milk production systems have gone through a process of specialization characterized by increasing the size of the herds, productivity and, notably, by reducing the man: cow relationship. The downsizing of skilled labour in production systems demands the development of precision dairy farming tools that allow the generation of individualized data of animals in a given herd. For that matter, there is a need not only for sensors capable of identifying and generating data on individual animals, but

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014

The project was conducted in order to identify and evaluate alternatives to produce genetically modified embryos and, subsequently, genetically modified ruminant animals, by identifying methods or procedures that enable the production of ruminant transgenic embryos in a more efficient way, reducing time and costs. Such procedures, associated with the insertion of genes of interest, may allow the generation of genetically modified animals capable of producing recombinant proteins important for an

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011

The Compost Barn system has the purpose of reducing costs in the implementation and maintenance of animal facilities, improving herd production and sanitary indices, and enabling the correct use of dairy farming organic waste (feces and urine). The system consists of a large covered space for the cows to rest. The floor is covered with sawdust, wood cutting scraps and composted manure. The main objective of Compost Barn is to ensure comfort to the animals and a dry place for them to stay during

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015

Livestock is one of the main highlights of Brazilian agribusiness. In recent years, issues related to food safety, energy, and environmental security have been the subject of discussions. In this scenario, the increase in demand for food and at the same time the pressure of society and importing countries for sustainable production systems, which requires a paradigm shift in agricultural production systems. In this context of rapid change, increasing the livestock efficiency is essential to ensu

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014

This project proposes to develop selected pure lineages of maternal traits for high reproduction performance, weight gain, longevity and functional structure: selected pure lineages of terminal paternal traits for high performance, weight gain, food conversion and meat quality; and to define usage strategies to optimize genetic material (crossbreeding to form matrices and slaughter animals) with this material's cost reduction to producers. The strategy is to develop technical cooperation contrac

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010

The international OTAG Project aimed at enhancing innovative, economically viable geotechnologies, methods and mechanisms which are capable of registering animal (beef cattle) origin and production data with precision and accuracy. Embrapa Satellite Monitoring coordinated Embrapa's activities in this project. One of its main objectives was to adapt and optimize the available geospatial technology with the aim of improving the quality of the products and management practices in the beef cattle

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009