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| Vegetables are essential foods in a healthy diet because of their supply of vitamins, minerals, and fibers. Additionally, they are sources of bioactive compounds that are related to the prevention of some illnesses. However, the low quality of the vegetables offered in most Brazilian markets reduces their attractiveness and supply, causing losses and waste, with high financial, social and environmental costs for society. The project aims to work on this issue with a focus on communication and te Status: Completed Start date: Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015 |
| Food education represents a factor of great importance to change malnutrition conditions, especially with regard to children, for a better quality of life based on the supply of accessible, low-cost foods with higher nutritional value. In view of such need, family farming represents a great potential to revert the malnutrition scenario, and the Food Biofortification project, led by Embrapa Food Agroindustry, is an alternative to offer technologies with nutritional added value aimed at family far Status: Completed Start date: Fri Jun 22 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012 |
| The main goal of the project is the conception of a new silo with improved air flow to dry newly-harvested corn cobs. Smallholders generally use silos that create strong resistance to room air flow, causing reduced grain quality. Studies indicate that the Venturi effect in drying silos could solve the issue of low air flow in such silos. The incorporation of the Venturi effect will be performed through a conic metal wall structure that will receive the wind on a more open wall. The wind will lea Status: Completed Start date: Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016 |
| 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 adoption of intensive pig farming systems brought economies of scale, greater productivity and logistic gains, but it increased the incidence of infections and animal stress levels, resulting in bouts of infectious diseases and making the use of antimicrobials in subtherapeutic or preventive doses necessary to promote growth and to mitigate the occurrence of diseases. Status: Completed Start date: Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017 |
| Rio Grande do Sul (RS) has the second highest state production of milk in the Brazilian Federation. Such an activity is widespread throughout the state, involving a significant share of farmers, with great economic and social relevance for generating wealth and income and contributing to the maintenance of a significant share of the state's population in the countryside. RS is located in a region with temperate clime, which has peculiar characteristics of climate, soil, vegetation cover, cattle Status: Completed Start date: Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014 |
| Yuca ( Manihot esculenta) represents one of the main food products of the Northern region. Indigenous peoples have left to the Northern peoples this heritage of many alternatives to the processing of this root, which can generate up to 300 products according to sources. In addition to having great socio-economic importance to the region, it is estimated that the yuca has its origin and diversification center in the Amazon. Thusly, knowing the existing variability in material collected thr ... Status: Completed Start date: Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| Embrapa Swine and Poultry has developed production cost surveys and studies since the late 1980s, initially for swine and, since the 1990s, for broiler chicken. The aim of the project "Cost of Compliance" is to comparatively access the costs that farmers face to adjust to environmental legislation, and legislation on food security and animal wellfare, in order to project impact on competitiveness. Status: Completed Start date: Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012 |
| Artisanal cheeses are traditionally produced from raw milk. In the State of Minas Gerais they are regarded as intangible heritage of humanity by the Institute of National Historical and Artistic Heritage, with the following two regions of the State being awarded a geographic indication label: Canastra and Serro. These indications have been pursued by other regions producing artisanal cheeses. Currently, their sale is permitted by official bodies, but their production safely to the consumer is st Status: Completed Start date: Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016 |
| The overall objective of this project was to strengthen Brazil’s green economy by harmonizing economic development and environmental conservation through sustainable agriculture that does not harm the environment, using soil and plant biomass management in organic production systems as a starting point. Unlike many agricultural production systems, organic agriculture offers a range of practices and techniques that potentially contribute to increase sustainability, including soil and plant biomas Status: Completed Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012 |