Reclaiming the Brazilian Amazon: the restoration and management of pasture lands

Resumo

The current growth in the Brazilian cattle herd suggests that in the future the Northern Region of the Legal Amazonia is expected to be a dominant player in the nation's cattle sector.With reduced deforestation pressure as a key condition, cattle production in the Amazon must be built on the recuperation of already-cleared lands and improved pasture management.This manuscript summarizes challenges in sown pasture development for the Brazilian Amazon, including their historical beginnings, and the learning that resulted from past research.Emphasis is placed on nearly 40 years of accumulated experience of research activities on the reclamation of degraded pasture lands in the Amazon by Embrapa.It is shown that improved pasture technology, mainly the recovery of abandoned pasture lands, has helped to increase the productivity of Amazonian cattle systems by increasing the stocking rate, ensuing that, during the past three decades, the size of the Amazonian cattle herd has grown much more rapidly than the land area in sown pastures.Although during the past 30 years, a lot has been written about cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon, only a few of these reports have been authored by native Amazonian agricultural experts, with a long lasting experience in the region.So, it is our expectation that the present manuscript might bring a fresh view on this very important and usually misunderstood area of knowledge, being a valuable asset to subsidize public policies in this strategic area for food security and environmental preservation in the region.

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Palavras-chave

• Recuperação
• Pastagem
• Amazonia

Termos atribuídos na Infoteca-e (Embrapa) (incluindo Thesagro e NAL Thesaurus).

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