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

As Brazil increases its production of biodiesel, so does the production of glycerin, a by-product with a high energy value. At the same time, corn, the main energy component in concentrated feeds, in addition to being the ingredient that most increases feed costs, tends to become less available in the market due to its use in the production of alcohol in Europe and the United States. Glycerol, the main component of glycerin, has already been used in some countries, mixed with concentrate for lac

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010

This International Cooperation Project – under the aegis of the Africa-Brazil Marketplace – developed in Ghana in partnership with Embrapa Mid-North, proposed the formulation of two products from the cashew pseudofruit: cashew powder (dehydrated through spray drying) to be reconstituted as fruit juice and breakfast cereal with enriched dehydrated cashew. The results indicated that the enriched cashew cereal had good acceptance among Ghanaian consumers. There were tests to obtain spray dried powd

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014

The increase in productivity in dairy farming will be essential to ensure increases in the production and supply of milk and milk products to meet the world's growing population. Appropriate technologies should be developed and adopted to enable increased productivity in a sustainable way, ensuring greater milk production with reduced number of animals and farming area. The efficient use of dietary nutrients is one of the premises of sustainable production systems, since their inefficient use no

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

This project aims to develop an open access digital platform in which data from Federal Government social programs focusing on farmers are available for crossings and spatial visualization. The tool was requested by the National Secretariat for Food and Nutritional Security of the former Ministry of Social Development (Sesan / MDS), and consists of a geoweb with information that allows the elaboration of coverage maps for five social programs: Food Acquisition (PAA), Promotion of Rural Produc

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016

Milk production systems in Brazil are based, for the most part, on the use of tropical grass pastures as the main source of nutrients for animals. Keeping high levels of pasture-based milk production depends on the following factors: supply of forage in quantity and quality, maximum duration of the grazing season, rational use of energy, protein and mineral supplements, and definition of management strategy that aims at productivity by area. Therefore, intensive pasture management results in for

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017

Agroforestry systems (AFS) combine planting trees with agricultural crops or animal husbandry and are considered suitable production systems for the Amazon region because they reconcile agricultural production with the conservation of natural resources, which is a great challenge today.

This project intends to develop efficient agroforestry systems that are compatible with the Amazonian environment and that generate a positive impact on the socio-economic conditions of rural producers ...

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