Initiatives aim to articulate the socio-economic development in the Amazon by means of environmental conservation. In this context, this region's zoogenetic resources are little known and consequently, are poorly managed. The ex situ raising of wild animals that present bio-business potential in Pará, such as the collared peccary, is regarded as a new venture focused on bio-business in the state of Pará. This proposal seeks to disclose bio-technological initiatives that focus on the use of natur ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009

Sugarcane is one of the most economical alternatives for off-season roughage feeding, which, whenever corrected, can become a feeding solution for animals with average production, even with the managerial difficulties of daily harvesting, regrowth handling, need for extra labor or specialized machinery, need to complete harvest within the same cycle, in addition to the risk of fire in the crop fields, all of which can be corrected. A correction alternative is sugarcane ensiling and nutritional e

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

The project aimed to study the use of crude glycerin produced by biodiesel plants as feed for dairy cows as an alternative to reduce the use of maize, an energy source with increasingly higher international prices, and thus increase the sustainability of dairy production. Research work carried out in other countries suggests that glycerol is the main component of crude glycerin, an energetic nutrient efficiently used by ruminants. . Thus, this project considered three main strategies to address

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009

Ethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass corresponds to the second generation of biofuels, and is a promising technology under development. The cost of the enzymes for the enzymatic hydrolysis is one of the major constraints for obtaining second generation ethanol. Therefore, the search for new technologies for increasing ethanol production should be focused on organisms capable of synthesizing enzymes involved in the degradation of plant fiber, i.e. the degradation of cellulose, hemicell

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014

Technological advances in milk production systems are related to genetic improvement and nutritional management. Genetic improvement has made it possible to obtain animals increasingly more productive, which implies a greater demand for nutrients and, consequently, a finer adjustment of diets, in order to meet the nutritional requirements of the animals and reduce the incidence of metabolic disorders (acidosis, laminitis, hypocalcemia, etc.). Another important factor to be evaluated is the use o

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2018