Project search
Filter by:
| There is currently a strong interest to comprehend, evaluate and minimize anthropic impacts on hydric resources. It has been particularly studied the effect of removing native vegetal covering over water availability and quality. In order to estimate the effects of changing vegetal covering over hydric resources, hydrologic modeling becomes an adequate tool. However, hydrologic models need great amounts of information, which in most times are unavailable. On the other hand, data obtained through Status: Completed Start date: Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| The essence of precision agriculture resides in the analysis of spatial variability of production factors, especially that of the soil. This analysis' results, interpreted from the standpoint of economical gain and environmental benefits, should guide the use of resources in a localized form, with precision doses. For this purpose, many technologies are used, such as GPS, GIS, sensors, actuators, embedded systems, among others. In Brazil, the adoption of precision agriculture still is a small nu Status: Completed Start date: Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2009 |
| In order to have the country keep growing and to open new markets, some sectors still require value aggregation to their products, which can only be achieved through the continuous incorporation of new technologies. In special, the quality and certification of agricultural products, biotechnology, agroenergy, environmental monitoring, new uses of agricultural products, precision agriculture and traceability, the inputs (fertilizers, pesticides) industry, innovation in medicine for veterinary use Status: Completed Start date: Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2011 |
| The project aims at assessing methods and innovative techniques in the area of Remote Sensing and spatial data integration for detection in cultivation practices and production systems, especially integrated crop-livestock-forestry systems (ICLFs) and variations, which constitute one of the key points of the low carbon agriculture policy. Status: Completed Start date: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015 |
| Embrapa Instrumentation has had the Nanotechnology Laboratory for Agribusiness since 2009, the very first one in the national and international community. LNNA was created with the support of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications, through the Financier of Studies and Projects (FINEP), in order to boost research in the agricultural sector, ensure its competitiveness, and also enable the development of work between Embrapa facilities and other public research instituti Status: Completed Start date: Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2013 |
| Despite agri-business's great importance, our principal products are exported in the form of commodities, without any quality specification. In order to commercialize them with quality attributes, it is necessary to make use of processes of quality determination and certification, at low costs, so that the price of the analyzed product won't rise significantly. Thus, it is necessary to develop ultrafast sensors that allow the analysis of thousands of samples an hour and non destructively, which Status: Completed Start date: Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2010 |
| New technologies can increase efficiency and improve techniques for monitoring greenhousegas emissions, reducing labor needs and improving the quality of data collected. But these newtechnologies require testing to confirm applicability under specific conditions and defineprotocols for their use. This project will establish procedures to minimize labor needs in thefield and systematize data collection, ensuring greater uniformity and lower sample error. Italso tests new equipment that can permit Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| 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 |
| The identification of animals with more efficiency in feed utilization is one of the alternatives to overcome the challenges as increased production costs, increased consumer awareness regarding food safety, animal welfare and environmental impacts of the agriculture and livestock. As feeding expenses account for the main cost of livestock activity, differences among animals in converting diet to beef and milk are of great relevance. Animals that use feed more efficiently need to consume less to Status: Completed Start date: Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2019 |
| The identification of animals with more efficiency in feed utilization is one of the alternatives to overcome the challenges as increased production costs, increased consumer awareness regarding food safety, animal welfare and environmental impacts of the agriculture and livestock. As feeding expenses account for the main cost of livestock activity, differences among animals in converting diet to beef and milk are of great relevance. Animals that use feed more efficiently need to consume less to Status: Completed Start date: Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017 |