“50 Vegetables”, “Traditional Vegetables Production Manual”, “Aromatic and Spice Plants” and “Vegetables Production for Family Farming” are some of the titles that have been available for downloads since Friday (05/08) on the website www.embrapa.br/baixe-livros-gratis. Source: Embrapa. Initiative that helps to ease the restrictions imposed by social isolation, EMBRAPA offers the most sought after titles. This is […]
Agroecology represents a breakdown of paradigms, an alternative path to that which has been followed by conventional agribusiness. When exposing ideas or concepts using words, we run the risk that they will be completely or partially distorted, in the mind of those who hear or read them. That is, you are saying one thing, the other […]
The mountain may be telling us: WHAT IS IT TO USE THE LIFE OF THE GROUND (and not its death!) TO CONTINUE ASCENDING? If you want to climb Mount Everest, you will need, at the very least, courage, money and good planning, right? But you will, of course, also need to travel there. For this you can […]
FAPESP and São Martinho – a sugar and alcohol company – set up a research center for pest and disease control in Jaboticabal. FAPESP and São Martinho – one of the largest companies in the sugar and alcohol sector in Brazil – selected the University of Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences of Unesp, in Jaboticabal, as […]
As never before, the covid-19 pandemic reveals to us that human, animal and ecological health are closely linked. As never before, the covid-19 pandemic reveals to us that human, animal and ecological health are closely linked. Most of our global problems: scarcity of energy and water, environmental degradation, climate change, economic inequality, food insecurity and […]
Have you ever heard of coffee rust? It is a disease that attacks the most economically important coffee trees in the world. Since the 1980s, occasional outbreaks of this fungus have harmed coffee production in the Americas, sometimes doubling or tripling its price. And the problem has been getting worse since 2008 , requiring huge investments of resources to combat it. A new […]
When calculating phosphate fertilization in soils cultivated for more than ten years, it is first necessary to decide whether we will use “chemical” or biological reasoning. In the first case, which is more usual, it is enough to use synthetic fertilizers of high solubility and apply three or more times the quantity required by the […]
Everything I have read and heard so far about the coronavirus (let me write it with a small c) makes us believe that we will have a silent autumn in Brazil. In cities, people leaving their homes as little as possible, schools closed, events, work or leisure, canceled in the next three months. And it’s […]
