The project aimed to use and develop methodologies for expansion and training of multipliers in dairy farming to make reach the farmers products, processes and technologies already generated by Embrapa Dairy Cattle, thus contributing to the improvement of life in the countryside. The strategy was focused on partnership and cooperation among institutions for the development and use of innovative and traditional mechanisms to modernize the dairy production chain in Brazil. Technology transfer was

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011

In 2011, following an institutional action, Embrapa homogenized the organizational structures of all its Research Centers. This action was aimed at strengthening the process of technological innovation in the corporation. As regards innovation management, this restructuring posed challenges in order to reach its objectives. In this scenario, Embrapa Dairy Cattle's Technological Innovation Team (NIT) incorporated new assignments that required specific skills and knowledge of the entire group, as

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2013

The development of new technologies for the agricultural sector from cutting-edge areas such as nanotechnology is a demand Embrapa has recognized. The crosscutting and pervasive nature of developments in this area also makes it difficult to understand models that allow these new technologies to actually reach the production sector. It is evident that when a company in the food sector assimilates new technology, its behavior is structurally different from that of a company in the plastics industr

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

This project aims to give Oriental Amazon Embrapa structure and channels for technology transfers that intend to develop agricultural and agro-industrial ventures by means of incubation of technology-based businesses, and focusing on meliponiculture, fruit derivatives, medicinal plant products and bio-jewelry. Technology transfers encourage economical and social development of entire regions, and that is one of the challenges faced by the Institutions of Research, Development and Innovation such

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

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