Agriculture is responsible for about 30% of the Brazilian Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and some of the challenges of the sector include: reducing production costs, increasing productivity and minimizing environmental impacts. In this scenario, the adoption of inoculants based on the process of biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) is quite welcome, once it is the only natural biological process of obtaining nitrogen, in contrast with the use of nitrogen fertilizers that release about a ton of gree

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

The strengthening of Embrapa's Low Carbon Brazilian Beef brand is the goal of this project, through the consolidation of a process of permanent mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHG) in pastures. The intent is to replace the use of nitrogen fertilizers, whose production entails high GHG emissions, by intercropping pastures with forage legumes that add nitrogen to the system via biological fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. In addition, the presence of legumes increases the pasture's protein supply,

Status: In progress     Start date: Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2020