A crescente demanda de água para fins industriais e residenciais, geração de energia, mineração, lazer, somados aos problemas ambientais, faz com que quantidade de água para a agricultura apresente uma tendência de redução. A agricultura é o maior usuário de água em todo o mundo. O setor agrícola brasileiro é o principal usuário consuntivo dos recursos hídricos. Uma provável solução para esse problema é aperfeiçoar como a água é manejada, o que envolve a adoção de tecnologias e procedimentos ade ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2013

The Precision Agriculture (PA) network, coordinated by Embrapa, has obtained significant results in terms of knowledge on the variability of the production and environmental parameters of plants, pests and diseases of diverse crops such as soybean, corn, cotton, wheat, eucalyptus, sugarcane Sugar, orange, grape, apple and peach.

The network made possible the integration of research efforts in the theme, with the participation of more than 150 researchers, 21 Embrapa Units, more than 5

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016

In fruit cultivation, Brazil occupies the third place among the world's major producers, especially with regard to fresh oranges, which accounted for the single largest growth in 2006 with more than 50,000 tons, an increase of 64% in volume and 85% in value compared to 2005 (AgroBrasil, 2006). The numbers reflect the dominance the country has maintained in the sector over the years, not only in the production of oranges and their byproducts, but also in the export of such products, especially fr

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

Milk production systems have gone through a process of specialization characterized by increasing the size of the herds, productivity and, notably, by reducing the man: cow relationship. The downsizing of skilled labour in production systems demands the development of precision dairy farming tools that allow the generation of individualized data of animals in a given herd. For that matter, there is a need not only for sensors capable of identifying and generating data on individual animals, but

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014

There is pressure from society for sustainable production systems, which makes it necessary the establishment of sustainability parameters for the production systems. In this regard, animal nutrition can influence the viability and sustainability of the production system, not only by the herd feeding impact on milk production cost but also by the emission of greenhouse gases and excretion of pollutants. The basic premise of precision nutrition is the knowledge of the animal nutritional requireme

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2012

Precision farming and agricultural practices that take into consideration the protection of the environment have brought forward a number of research challenges. The scale of sampling and the precision required by such new agricultural practices are often higher than those required by traditional agriculture, increasing production costs. Methods and devices for on-the-go measurements are being developed to equip agricultural vehicles to support these practices. The proposed project was guided

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2008

The Precision Agriculture Network counts with 20 Embrapa research Units and approximately 200 researchers: 15 experimental units distributed throughout the Northeast, the Mid-West, Southeast and South of the country; 11 perennial and annual cultures, and approximately 100 Research, Development and Innovation activities. The network was started at the end of 2009, and proposed to establish agricultural and stockbreeding concepts focused on space-time variability management for the sustainability

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009