While aligning technology and innovation, Mato Grosso do Sul agribusiness emerges with socio-environmentally concerned practices that ensure a promising future to new generations. Adopting more sustainable conducts is no longer an option; it is now the reality for conservation  

 

By Anderson Viegas, Débora Ricalde, José Câmara, Nadyenka Castro, Rafaela Moreira and Renata Barros, G1 MS

Published on 05/23/2022

In the state, farming and cattle-raising expansion occurs in already human-altered areas. These lands, earlier underutilized and under degradation process, are being recovered, and transformed into fertile lands for different types of cultivation and activities, from grain plantation to eucalyptus forests, and also high-yield livestock farming.

In addition to the recovery of degraded areas, several other sustainable practices were incorporated to farmers’ daily activities, like adoption of integrated systems, no-tillage systems, biological fixation of nitrogen and recovery of springs, among others.

In this multimedia report, you will read about the following topics:

– Technology provides more sustainability in the field;

– Entities help disseminate sustainable knowledge in the field;

– Renewed rural production preserves springs;

– Sugar-cane that produces food and bioenergy;

– Modernity in rural processes ensures more sustainable future;

– Beekeeping is secular practice based on sustainability;

– Organic beef helps in Pantanal preservation;

– Trade turns eyes to organic animal protein consumption;

– Cellulose relevance to Mato Grosso do Sul;

– Reforestation and Green Energy;

– Integration of crops is the bet to promote sustainability in the field;

– From beef exclusivity to environmental sustainability with crop integration;

– Institutional work

 

Campo Grande Rural Union president Alessandro Oliva Coelho highlights the work done by agribusiness representative entities to bring knowledge on sustainability to the field, the link between farmers and research institutions.

“We offer technical lectures, labor qualification and technical support, always jointly with Senar/MS and other institutions. The whole union system performs a strong work in this area, to bring knowledge to the field.  It is hard to reach the base, considering the distances and communication difficulties, but we count on several partners that also promote these initiatives and disseminate this knowledge to make information reach the most remote corners of our state”, he explains.

In addition to the partnership to spread information, Alessandro explains that the Union also acts in cooperation with other entities to reach certain agribusiness niches. He mentions as examples the work with Pantanal Association for Organic and Sustainable Livestock (ABPO) and Association for Guariroba Basin Recovery, Conservation and Preservation (ARCP Guariroba).

Another line of operation, according to Coelho, is the public entities demand to make feasible research turned to the sector in institutions like Embrapa, Fundect, and universities. The Rural Union president also reminded that Mato Grosso do Sul was one of the pioneers in the adoption of integrated production systems and is leader in the national ranking, thanks to the studies developed by Embrapa in the state.

“One of our main demands in the sector today is research turned to the development of biological inputs to enable reduction in pesticide application. This is imperative, not only to ensure more sustainable production, but also to reduce Brazilian dependence on raw materials to produce these products”.

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