This project arose from the need to generate and consolidate geospatial databases, implementing an infrastructure in order to organize and make this data available to improve Embrapa's RD&I capacity. As well as to allow sharing of the data collection to other government agencies and to society, and also the establishment of a multiuser reference center for obtaining spectroradiometric measurements of targets of interest to tropical agriculture. The implementation of Embrapa's Spatial Data Infras ...

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

Geospatial information are necessary for planning and decision making, resources management, and for the creation of public policies. Disseminating geoinformation is strategically relevant to strengthen Brazilian agriculture and to transfer the knowledge produced by Embrapa to the society. The deployment of a structure for the digital storage of spatial data and metadata enables the long-term preservation of geoinformation and its curation, manipulation and integration, thus avoiding duplicat

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012

Maps, zoning and monitoring resources are examples of geospatial information which are daily used for planning, managing resources, decision making, and for public policies. Geoinformation are of strategic importance for several sectors, including for strengthening Brazilian agriculture and for transferring the knowledge produced by Embrapa to society. To quickly produce, organize and make geospatial services and data available, Embrapa needed an up-to-date, modern data infrastructure, to ena

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015

Among the pathogens infecting grapevines, viruses particularly stand out due to the damages they cause and the degeneration (loss of vigor) of the plants they affect throughout the years, resulting in reduced production and quality of grapes. This could even economically impair this activity. In specific combinations of rootstock/cultivar and viral species, grapevine viral diseases can be latent and could thus go undetected and be successively propagated, resulting in high levels of infection in

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012

The farmer and the processing juice industry in Brazil and abroad, seeking ways to reduce their losses, through the use of new varieties, diversification of processing to obtain new products and the establishment of partnerships with centers research for the development of techniques using the residue of agribusiness. Aim thereby reducing the environmental impact generated by the production process and maximize your profits.

In this context, the Embrapa Food Technology, in partnership

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015

The aim of this project is to create a multicriteria sustainability index for family-based agricultural units in Amazônia. This effort is performed with participation of farmers, their children and technicians, and combines theoretical knowledge and methods with local experiences. To fulfil this purpose, the project's team will be promoting workshops in each of the states that make up the Brazilian Amazon region, with the aim of defining economic, social, environmental and governance indicators. ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

The growing biofuel industry generates by-products that have shown promise as energy and protein feeds in ruminant diets. The objective of this project was to determine the effects of by-products of biodiesel production, obtained from different sources of oilseeds, on the in vitro degradability of nutrients, in vitro ruminal fermentation and methane gas production. Palisadegrass ( Brachiaria brizantha) was used as a model. Its isolated incubation was considered as a contro ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007

The sesame crop has aroused, in recent years, the interest of new producers and rural entrepreneurs in the Brazilian Center-West, with emphasis on the micro-regions of Mato Grosso North and Middle Araguaia and Middle North, as an alternative for profitable cultivation that can be used in rotation and/or succession of crops, mainly with soybeans. Thus, producers in the state identified a great business opportunity in sesame, combined with favorable conditions for the development of the crop with

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2022

Heat along with high humidity is one of the causes of impaired milk production and fertility of cattle, especially in the summer or in tropical and semitropical regions. Such problems can be aggravated with the prospect of global warming. In the hottest regions of Brazil there is a preference for crossbred Holstein (H) X zebu (Z), mainly Gir (G) cattle that form the Girolando synthetic breed whose composition is mainly ⅝ GxH. Girolando animals are more tolerant to heat than breeds of European or

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015

Spittlebug, Mahanarva spectabilis (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) is capable to cause drastic losses in production and quality of pastures established with grasses. Currently, the use a grass resistant cultivar, to be obtained by means of constitutive antibiosis, is the best spittlebug controlling method. However, the time required for releasing a cultivar after detecting a spittlebug-resistant strain is relatively long. Allied to this, one should take into consideration that the adaptations of

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015