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Fruit growing is one of the activities that have shown good performance in Bahia. A survey by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) shows that economic activity was responsible for generating R $ 3.1 billion to the economy, equivalent to 8.6% of the value of national production (R $ 35.7 billion) ). The…

An experiment with super-dense cultivation of dwarf cashew came to obtain, in two years of implementation, triple the average productivity achieved by the variety in the state of Ceará in 2019. The researchers' expectation is to reach a productivity of at least three tons of chestnuts and 27 tons of stalk per hectare / year…

The month of September is the final stretch for the harvest of the Tocantins watermelon, the cultivation of the fruit remains in high production, being an economic activity that is constantly expanding, in several municipalities. The municipalities of Lagoa da Confusão and Formoso do Araguaia stand out in production, with Porto Nacional also emerging, which…

According to farmers, it is not yet possible to estimate the size of the impact Fruit growers had problems with frost | Photo: Roberto Basqueira / Souza Farm District / Press Release / CP The late frost on Monday caused damage to fruit producers in the region of Serra Gaúcha. The engineer-agronomist and rural extension…

  One of the main products when talking about exports in Ceará, the melon goes through a recovery period. After years of successive droughts in the State, which damaged reservoirs and areas such as the irrigated perimeter of Tabuleiro de Russas, the good rains in the first half of 2020, together with the transposition of…

The fruits of the Cerrado Tocantinense have high nutritional value, pleasant taste and specific characteristics. To encourage the use of processing and alternative income generation, the Secretary of State for Agriculture, Livestock and Aquaculture (Seagro) will hold this Friday, 18, live, on the Youtube channel, processing workshops for various fruits of the Cerrado in the…

In the Serra Gaúcha region, according to the rural extension worker from Emater / RS-Ascar João Villa, the use of species such as ryegrass, forage turnip, vetch and oats predominates in the areas of fruit growing, and oats, ryegrass and mix (diversity) of species in the fields In the milky grain flowering stage, soil cover…

The Brazilian Association of Fruit and Derivative Producers (ABRAFRUTAS) participated yesterday (28th) in the Webinar “Challenges and opportunities for Food Irradiation in Brazil”, promoted by the Brazilian Association for the Development of Nuclear Activities (ABDAN) in partnership with Sebrae. The event was attended by Minister Tereza Cristina, who said she was interested in the subject…

Paulista moves to Mossoró, in Rio Grande do Norte, to grow melon; today, it produces 250 thousand tons per harvest and supplies the European market Luiz Roberto Barcelos, largest melon producer and exporter in Brazil (disclosure / Disclosure) Rural producer Luiz Roberto Barcelos, 55, remembers the first time he tried a melon. He was five…