The manual harvest of pepper fruits is difficult mostly due to the plants' low heights and the fruit's pungency, which causes irritation and burns the hands of harvesters. Such aspects partly explain the scarcity of labor for the pepper harvest. In addition, in the Brazilian and international market there are no jalapeño cultivars developed for mechanized harvesting. Therefore, this project aims at the development of new jalapeño cultivars adapted to mechanized harvest - with suitable plant arch ...

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

In Brazil, milk production is practiced by more than one million farmers, mostly smallholders, who have the most important sources of feed for the herd in pasture and forage grass cropping for cut-and-carry. One of the major demands of farmers is on improved forage cultivars for cutting and grazing that can meet the nutritional needs of herds throughout the year. Elephantgrass, in addition to its superior performance in the establishment of cut-and-carry plantations (i.e. green chopped, hay, and

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007

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: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007

In Brazil, milk production is practiced by more than one million farmers, mostly smallholders, who have in pastures and swards for green chop the most important sources for cattle feeding. Dairy agribusiness plays a significant role in food supply for the domestic market, in the generation of jobs and income for the population and in recent years has also become increasingly important in the Country’s export line. The intensification of animal production systems demands the use of forage species

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016

In last the two decades, the melon agribusiness in Brazil has expanded nine times, reaching a production that is estimated at 500,000 tons per year and is concentrated in the Northeast. Since 2007, melons have become the main national fruit in volume of exports, and in 2008 Brazil was the second top world exporter. Nearly all melon cultivars planted in the Northeast are imported, and hence there is demand for more adapted ones, as the cultivars available were generally developed in soil and clim

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

The project is a continuation of the genetic improvement program whose goal is to develop and launch fusariosis-resistant pineapple cultivars with fruit quality to ensure the supply of the domestic market with environmentally safe production and less application of agrochemicals.Three innovation solutions are proposed: genotypes with the potential to expand the genetic base of cultivation in Brazil, cultivars adapted to the main production hubs; and a large-scale production system to provide hea

Status: In progress     Start date: Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2021

Pasture as an exclusive feeding source accounts for almost 90% of the beef consumed in Brazil and for most of the nearly 35 billion liters of milk produced annually in the country. It is estimated today that, in Brazil, grasses of the genus Brachiaria are cultivated in approximately 84 million hectares. In Brazil, the most cultivated species of Brachiaria are B. decumbens, B. brizantha, B. humidicola and B. ruziziensis. With the increasing agricult ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008

One of the largest livestock problems in Southern Brazil has been the scantiness of varieties of forage species more adapted to this region. In addition, due to global warming and the demand for increased productivity with reduced use of inputs, there is a need of studies on germplasm tolerance to abiotic stresses such as drought, and the evaluation of symbiotic organisms to promote biological nitrogen fixation in grasses. Thus, this project aimed to develop improved populations of some of the m

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

Objective: Provide table manioc cultivars with high nutritional and organoleptic quality and post-harvest conservation, and cultivars for industry with high productivity, quality and stability of starch, adapted to the climatic conditions of the main growing regions of Brazil.

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed May 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

The objectives are to generate and make available papaya lineages and hybrids aligned with the demands of the production chain, with greater productivity, higher fruit quality, more resistance to the main pests and adapted to the main production centers in Brazil.

Status: In progress     Start date: Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2021