Embrapa suggests winter cereals and millet for feed composition

Embrapa was willing to work on the development of millet hybrids in order to supply the feed sector. Data from 2019, extracted from the Conab information base, demonstrate a disproportionate relationship between the area used and the summer crops in relation to the winter crops - wheat, barley, oats, rye, triticale and canola - in the South. “We use only 15% of the production area with winter crops, if compared to summer crops ”, informed Eduardo Caierão, a researcher at Embrapa Trigo and a specialist in genetic improvement. “We have a great potential to develop winter cereals in the South,” he said, when he began his presentation to representatives of the production chain. Caierão explained that there are several cereals grown in winter, but wheat has the greatest potential for feeding poultry and pigs. “It is also the one that occupies the largest area of cultivated area and, therefore, is able to supply the demand in the event of supplying the feed industries. However, we have ...