The Environmental Risk Assessment (ARA) of pesticides, under the responsibility of Ibama, is part of the procedure for registering a pesticide in Brazil. The main objective of this project was to compare the worst-case scenario adopted by Ibama for the ARA of pesticides in water bodies, with the most representative scenarios of soybean cultivation prevalent in Brazil. A methodology was developed to map water basins with potential for contamination by pesticides used in agriculture. Through it

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

In the context of planning, managing and generating territorial knowledge, Geoprocessing plays a fundamental role in supporting strategic decision making through the treatment of georeferenced information, which is the object of interest in public and private institutions and organizations. The structure of databases provided by the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is configured as a cartographic information generator to support the various productive chains of the agricultural sector, leadi

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008

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: Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007

Soy is one of the main commodities in national agricultural production, with Brazil being the world's largest producer, with a production of 135.4 million tons, productivity 3,517 kg/ha. With a planted area of ​​38.5 million hectares, it is still the world's largest exporter of the grain. Among the main producing states, Mato Grosso stands out as the largest Brazilian producer of soy, with production of 35.9 million tons, planted area of ​​10,374,861 hectares and productivity of 3492 kg/ha. The

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2022

Selection for desirable bovine phenotypes has been practiced since the domestication of cattle, which occurred approximately 10,000 years ago. This process of domestication has brought about a marked change in behavioral and morphological characteristics in the subspecies and, together with the development of breeds and genetic breeding programs, has given rise to the enormous variety of patterns and racial types known today. Since then, traditional breeding tools, based on quantitative theory,

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

Selection for desirable phenotypes has been practiced in cattle since their domestication approximately 10,000 years ago. This process, alongside breed development and genetic improvement programs, has led to the vast diversity of cattle breeds known today. Traditional breeding methods, grounded in quantitative theory, have facilitated continuous genetic gains in most economically important traits. However, until recently, selection has been conducted without knowledge of the specific genes infl

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

The banana tree is cultivated from north to south of the country and the main cultivars used are susceptible to pests, with low productivity and some are very tall. The project aims to continue the banana breeding program underway since 1983 and aims to create and agronomically evaluate banana genotypes; assess resistance / tolerance to biotic and abiotic stresses; develop basic studies aimed at generating knowledge for pest control in support of the breeding program; use tissue culture techn

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008

The strengthening of Embrapa's Low Carbon Brazilian Beef brand is the goal of this project, through the consolidation of a process of permanent mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHG) in pastures. The intent is to replace the use of nitrogen fertilizers, whose production entails high GHG emissions, by intercropping pastures with forage legumes that add nitrogen to the system via biological fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. In addition, the presence of legumes increases the pasture's protein supply,

Status: In progress     Start date: Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2020

Brazilian livestock farming is predominantly based on the use of pastures, since most of the country has soil and climate conditions favorable for growing forage crops and because this is the most economical way of feeding livestock. Tropical forages occupy most of the cultivated pasture areas, with predominance of the species Brachiaria brizantha and Panicum maximum, which together account for more than 90% of Brazilian tropical pasture areas. However, growing these forage species is hampered i

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2021

The use of technology based on computer vision and image processing has proven to be quite effective in automating the process of meat inspection routine. Countries like Australia and the USA have already used some computational methods for classifying and typifying carcasses in their industries. Based on this scenario of modernization of beef cattle farming and the significant production and export of meat in Brazil, there is a high demand to parameterize and enable automation processes for eva

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2022