Technologies for the production of tambaqui and bananas are presented at Agrolab Amazônia 2020

Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental will be present at Conecta Sebrae - Agrolab Amazônia 2020, which will take place between September 22 and 24, featuring two technologies aimed at rural production. The event will be entirely digital, with virtual reality technology, and is an opportunity for companies and institutions to interact in a business environment, and for the formulation of development and sustainability strategies in the Amazon. The technologies that will be presented at the fair, and that will be together with other solutions for the Amazon in the virtual window of Embrapa, are: Control of black sigatoka in banana, through the deposition of fungicides in the armpit of the second leaf; and Production of tambaqui in tanks excavated with aeration. Caused by the fungus Mycosphaerella fijiensis, black sigatoka affects non-resistant banana varieties, causing losses and decreased production since it was registered in the North. Faced with this problem and with the objective of making ...