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Abstract: The cultivation of conventional maize in refuge areas is important for preserving Bt technology and serving specific markets with greater added value to the grains. Therefore, research aimed at chemical weed control must also continue to be directed to conventional maize hybri...
Resumo: A resistência de Rhipicephalus microplus à deltametrina e ao amitraz se constitui como um dos maiores desafios na bovinocultura mundial e pouco se conhece sobre como a cutícula destes ectoparasitos respondem à exposição a estas moléculas. Desta forma, o objetivo do presente ...
Abstrract: This study aimed to evaluate the dynamics of total carbon (TC), total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), and some indicators of environmental sustainability of Nile tilapia reared in a biofloc technology (BFT) system. Nile tilapia fingerlings were cultured in three BFT uni...
Resumo: Oestrose é uma enfermidade parasitária cosmopolita causada pelas larvas da mosca Oestrus ovis, que parasitam o trato respiratório superior de ovinos e caprinos. As larvas se desenvolvem nos seios nasais, paranasais e frontais provocando inflamações, secreção nasal e espirros nos anim...
Avaliou-se, em condições de campo, o efeito da aeração e da disponibilidade hídrica em solos com vários graus de erosão, no rendimento de tubérculos comerciais e na produção de tubérculos defeituosos de batata inglesa (Solanum tuberosum cv. Elvira). O trabalho foi efetuado em área&...
Abstract: During the past 30 years, augmentative biological control (ABC) has received increasing interest and is now applied in a large diversity of crops on many hectares in Latin America and the Caribbean. Around the year 2000 4.35 million hectares were estimated to be trea...
This article examines the growing gap between science and politics, their respective ethos and modus operandi, in public policymaking, within the policy cycle, and among decision-makers, especially in Brazil, where these dimensions interact problematically. Drawing on the specificities of the pol...
At the core of the "One Health” debate is the distribution of determinants of antibiotic resistance (AMR) in the environment affected by intensive animal husbandry, which requires further research. Brazilian intensive pig farming uses oral antimicrobials (ATM) prophylactically resulting in s...
Salmonella is a significant pathogen that infects pigs and causes salmonellosis. It is also a major concern for the pork industry, as it contributes to foodborne illnesses in humans. Vaccination is a key strategy to protect animals and biosecurity measures are essential to control&...
Protecting consumer health is the primary objective of sanitary inspection for food of animal origin. In Brazil, the Industrial and Sanitary Inspection Regulation of Animal Products was first enacted in 1952 by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply (MAPA). Since that&#x...