The productive local set ups (APLs) of the Cupuacú tree represent how it is possible to develop agriculture with environmental and social responsibility. This is so because great part of the family farmers and small farmers set up their orchards in already deforested areas, in intercropping systems with temporary and permanent species, once the cupuaçú tree accepts moderate levels of shading. These orchard set ups try to emulate the forest environment, especially in the control of soil erosion a ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007

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

This research project aims to obtain information about wood harvesting, energy supply and carbon credit market using five both native and exotic forest species in experimental homogeneous and mixed plantation systems in the counties in Pará. Furthermore, as additional information, activities that open up new guidelines regarding fertilization, dissemination and phytosanitary aspects of the species in question will be carried out throughout eight actions plans. The species of interest are: paricá ...

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2007

The last decades' expansion of açaí palm cultivated areas in the Amazon was significantly high, it being the source of new jobs and income opportunities for the local population. Even though, the participation of the açaí fruit in the region's agribusiness is rather inexpressive when compared to the volume of fruit production in Brazil.

The Açaí palm genetic improvement program developed its first cultivar, the BRS Pará, with precociousness and good fruit production during the harvest p ...

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