Title:	Long-term no-fire conservation agriculture diversifies production on a sandy Acrisol in Acre state, southwestern Brazilian Amazon.
Authors:	COSTA, F. de S. DICK, D. P. CAMPOS FILHO, M. D. LAMBERTUCCI, D. M. TAVELLA, L. B.
Affiliation:	FALBERNI DE SOUZA COSTA, CPAF-AC; DEBORAH PINHEIRO DICK, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); MANOEL DELSON CAMPOS FILHO, CPAF-AC; DANIEL MOREIRA LAMBERTUCCI, CPAF-AC; LEONARDO BARRETO TAVELLA, Federal University of Acre (Ufac).
Date Issued:	2021
Citation:	In: WORLD CONGRESS ON CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE, 8., 2021, Bern, Switzerland. The Future of farming: profitable and sustainable farming with conservation agriculture: online proceedings. Brussels: ECAF, 2021.
Pages:	1 p.
Description:	The conservation agriculture (CA) needs "no-fire" (no-fire CA) in Brazilian Amazon, where slash-and-burn agriculture (SBA) is still common, which decrease soil organic matter (SOM) and increase greenhouse gases emissions and decrease crops production. Soil tillage to smallholders do not is actually a common practice nowadays. But this scenario is changing by the regional agribusiness. In the Juruá region of Acre State, where this study was carried out, predominate sandy soils. Cassava (Manihot esculeta, Crantz) is the main crop and almost monoculture in smallholder farming. But cultivation of cassava is SBA-based, i.e. a low technological system. Soil tillage associated to soil sandy features and total annual precipitation in Juruá can increase erosion because cassava cultivation starting is coincident to begin of rainfall regional station. This corolarium indicate to a decreasing productivity of cassava and likewise to others agricultural crops. The hypothesis of this study is that no-fire CA to smallholder farming is part of the solution of scenario presented. To test this hypothesis no-fire CA models were evaluated in comparison to SBA. Economic and environmental results are presented.
Thesagro:	Agricultura Familiar Mandioca Manihot Esculenta Análise Econômica Análise de Custo-Benefício
NAL Thesaurus:	Family farms Cassava Economic analysis Cost benefit analysis
Keywords:	Agricultura conservacionista Conservation agriculture Agricultura de conservación Explotación agrícola familiar Yuca Análisis económico Análisis de costo-beneficio Regional do Juruá (AC) Acre Amazônia Ocidental Western Amazon Amazonia Occidental
Type of Material:	Resumo em anais e proceedings
Access:	openAccess
Appears in Collections:	Resumo em anais de congresso (CPAF-AC)