The use of vegetable fibers as reinforcement in polymeric matrices has been an increasing demand of the industry, mainly because the whole environmental issue. The search for renewable sources, as well as the search for biodegradable products has been increasing in recent years. Pineapple fiber, more precisely from Curauá (Ananas comousus var. Erectifolius), is already being used to replace fiberglass in reinforcing polymer composites, with applications in the automotive industry. However, other ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010

Yuca is a highlighted culture for the state of Pará, not only for its importance in the state's cuisine, but also for representing a source of income for thousands of agriculture producers. The culture can also give support to the state's agro-industry, by means of supplying raw materials used in the fabrication of many products. In order to be incremented in the state of Pará, the yuca culture needs to go through a genetic improvement program, in the hopes of obtaining material which is more ad ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010

This project intends to offer technical and scientific support to Secretariat for Family Farms and Cooperatives (Secretaria de Agricultura Familiar e de Cooperativismo, SAF) of the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Mapa). In the project are foreseen analyses of the Pronaf Release Statement (Declaração de Aptidão ao Pronaf, DAP) database and other correlated databases which are to be made available over the span of the cooperation. The DAP is a legal instrument to attest th ...

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

O objetivo da pesquisa é obter antígenos com elevada eficácia contra o carrapato bovino Rhipicephalus microplus e espécies relacionadas. O controle da infestação dos rebanhos bovinos é um desafio mundial, que envolve principalmente os criadores dos países das regiões tropicais e subtropicais, onde a espécie é endêmica. Estima-se em cerca de mais de 3 bilhões de dólares o custo anual da pecuária brasileira, devido às infestações desse carrapato, e as perdas econômicas globais são da ordem de 22 a ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

Reducing post-harvest food waste and losses can substantially contribute to reducing food insecurity. Post-harvest operations are characterized as all the steps that follow the harvest of a product until its consumption. In this project, we are devoting efforts to disseminating technologies to reduce the losses that exist in operations after the harvest of fruits and vegetables, in the municipalities of Cláudia and Sinop. Thus, the target audience of this project are agroecologically based rural ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2022

Brazil is one of the world's largest producers of agricultural products. However, there is still a persistent international perception that the country's production comes at the expense of significant environmental damage, which does not reflect the diverse reality of Brazilian agriculture. Sustainability indicators proposed by international organizations such as FAO/UN and OECD repeatedly rank Brazil among the countries with the worst performance when they disregard the fact that the country

Status: In progress     Start date: Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2022

The Twin transition phenomenon is guided by the digital transformation agenda associated with production with less environmental impact. Adopting agricultural practices that promote the more efficient use of resources associated with digital technologies is central to the sustainable digitalization transition. This project aims to estimate the impact of adopting integrated crop-livestock production systems (ILP) and digital technologies on the technical efficiency of farms. The results can contr

Status: In progress     Start date: Wed Feb 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2023

This project aims to perform the soil and weather zoning potential for corn, sorgum, sugar cane and pineapple in the area under the influence of the Canal das Vertentesl, in the to 1:50.000 scale, searching for the rational use of the natural resources and the agricultural development of the region with sustainability criteria. In 2019 the project was extended, with new areas under influence of the east axis of the transposition of the waters of the São Francisco River, this will be the second p ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

The Kamukaia project, in its third phase, focuses on valuing non-timber forest products (NTFP) in the Amazon, aiming at promoting the multiple use of sociobiodiversity products in agroextractive communities and their economic strengthening. The management and the transformation of NTFP are important links for the strengthening of their value chains, essential for the conservation of ecosystems and economic development in the Amazon. It is in this sense that the project is structured, also aim

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019

Embrapa has built a highly conducive environment for the use of strategic and competitive intelligence to support action planning and scheduling and to provide important information to the different agents in the supply chains to which it relates. This is expressed in Embrapa's Agropensa (Strategic Intelligence System) dedicated to producing and disseminating knowledge and information in support of the formulation of research, development and innovation strategies for the corporation and its par

Status: Completed     Start date: Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017