Brazil: Pulses and special cultures are options for Mato Grosso to reach new markets

Published 2022년 6월 24일

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Mato Grosso, a global leader in agricultural production, is diversifying its crops, with a focus on pulses, special crops, and transgenic varieties. Leading agricultural research corporation, Embrapa, is supporting this shift by introducing crops like cowpea, sesame, and wheat, and presenting advanced soybean cultivars. The Famato Embrapa Show, showcasing over 60 innovations developed by Embrapa in grain, fiber, beef production, and rural sanitation technologies, aims to provide farmers with alternatives and enhance market opportunities. The event highlights the importance of these new crops in meeting domestic demand and expanding international market opportunities, addressing the challenges of pests and diseases, and emphasizing the need for supportive public policies for the success of these new cultivation efforts.

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Mato Grosso is a world leader in agriculture, especially in the production of soy, cotton and corn. But the cultivation of pulses and special crops is growing in the state and opening up a range of new market possibilities for rural producers. “We need to have alternatives for the second crop and the more crops, the better and we have the possibility of developing markets that we never imagined. In the case of pulses, for example, we have Asian countries that are major consumers and can be our customers”, says Ricardo Arioli, technical coordinator of the Famato Embrapa Show, held in Cuiabá (MT). During the event, the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) presented alternatives for farmers such as peanuts, pulse whose culture will be further boosted by the implementation of an industry in the municipality of Nova Ubiratã, which should consume the production of an area of 30 thousand hectares. Cowpea is another legume that has been becoming popular among farmers in ...

Source: Embrapa