Study demonstrates socioeconomic impacts of pasture recovery by the ABC Plan in Brazil
Frozen Bone-In Beef
Cow Milk
Brazil
Published Nov 1, 2022
Tridge summary
In addition to mitigating emissions, the technology allowed for an increase in rural producer income and productivity in beef and dairy cattle.
Original content
The first study on the influence of the ABC Plan on the national economy shows that pasture recovery technology generated an increase of 0.31% in GDP, which is equivalent to R$ 17 billion in the period analyzed between 2010 and 2018 (based on macroeconomic variables from 2015 onwards). The numbers are part of the study carried out by researchers at the Luiz de Queiroz Higher School of Agriculture at the University of São Paulo (Esalq/USP), based on a public notice issued by Mapa in partnership with the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA). The study exclusively takes into account pasture recovery technology, one of seven implemented in the ABC Plan. 20 million hectares of recovered pastures were considered, identified in satellite images from the Image Processing and Geoprocessing Laboratory (Lapig) of the Federal University of Goiás (UFG). The director of Sustainable Production and Irrigation at Mapa, Mariane Crespolini, explains that the contributions ...
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