Brazil: Embrapa highlights the challenges of sweet potato cultivation in Sectorial Chamber

게시됨 2021년 11월 11일

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The article highlights the ongoing efforts to enhance the sweet potato production chain in Brazil, with a focus on improving access to certified seedlings and advancing production technologies. Researcher Larissa Vendrame from Embrapa Vegetables discussed the sector's growth and the need for quality seedlings to meet domestic demand and potentially expand exports. She also mentioned the challenges faced in seedling production and outlined a plan to develop a guide for best practices.

The article also introduces the Pedagogical Gardens Project by Embrapa Hortaliças and the Ministry of Citizenship, which aims to establish educational gardens in vulnerable areas. The project, which has seen initial success in Maranhão and Piauí, has received support from FNDE and plans to develop an application. The Sectorial Chamber of Vegetables has expressed the importance of these initiatives to the Brazilian horticulture sector.

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The experience of the Pedagogical Gardens Project, developed by Embrapa Hortaliças and the Ministry of Citizenship, was also presented at the meeting. One of the main concerns of the sweet potato production chain has been access to certified seedlings, which, together with other production system technologies, tend to enhance the cultivation of the crop in the country. At the last meeting of the year of the Sector Chamber of the Vegetable Production Chair, on 11/11, researcher Larissa Vendrame, from Embrapa Vegetables, exposed this issue and detailed how the actors involved are mobilizing to strengthen the segment that has been registered in recent years increased productivity and consumption. Check here the work of Embrapa Vegetables with the sweet potato crop The researcher, who is the coordinator of the Genetic Improvement Project aimed at the sustainability and quality of fresh and processed sweet potatoes in the main producing regions of Brazil – O MelhorDoce II, explained ...

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