“The technology is able to double productivity, quintuple the no-cost change livestock production without opening new agricultural frontiers, “Embrapa researcher says 
the technology applied in agriculture has allowed in the same area integrated systems produce up to four harvests per year. Developed by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), the integration of systems involve the production of grains, fiber, wood, energy, milk or meat, in plantations in rotation, intercropping and / or sequence.
Handled as the “revolution of the Tropics”, by one of its creators, the researcher at Embrapa Cerrado John Kluthcouski, the technique basically works by planting during the summer annual crops such as rice, beans , corn, soybeans or sorghum and trees associated with forage species (brachiaria or millet). The combinations are varied among the agricultural, livestock and forestry components and consider available space and time.
“This is the greatest revolution of the tropics, the tropical belt around the world. Because it is not a simple technology is a technological complex for easy application and understanding, which allows you to recover degraded areas with high sustainability. This is the system integration: recovery of degraded areas, sustainable production, four harvests a year that depend only on rain, “explains John Kluthcouski, known as John K
By integrating the activities, avoids the need. deforestation of new areas for increased production. The technology results in different integrated systems such as crop-livestock-forest (iLPF), crop-livestock (ILP), silvopastoral (SSP) or agroforestry (SAF). The integration technique accepts all plant species in areas from 1 hectare of land.
“The technology is able to double productivity, quintuple livestock production without changing the cost and without opening new agricultural frontier, “said John K.
the researcher was the mastermind of implementing the technology at Fazenda Santa Brigida, located in Ipameri (GO), 200 km from Goiânia. At the time, the owner Marize Port Costa had just become a widow and the farm, until then administered by her husband, had maintenance problems.
“When we took over the farm management Santa Brigida in 2006, we we face totally degraded pastures infested with termites and did not support for animals that were here [on the farm]. When we did the survey to see how much would be to recover this space, we saw that the conventional way was impossible to do that there was a guy and return soon-term thing, “says Marize, describing the farm scene before seeking support technical Embrapa.
visited by Agency Brazil *, the farm operates in the integration of crop-livestock-forest with cattle, soybean, corn, sunflower and eucalyptus. Before the system, the production was two and a half bushel per hectare / year. Currently, there are 25 arrobras per hectare / year. Regarding soybeans, in the beginning, there was a tie production to an increase of 65 bags per hectare / year. The production of corn, which was 90 bags per hectare went projection 185-190 bags per hectare.
Livestock
According to the president of Embrapa, Maurício Lopes, the system represents a “new paradigm of production” of Brazilian agriculture and livestock. The state is working on developing metrics that will allow, by combining the integration of technology, production tracking and certification of Brazilian beef in a system called “Zero Carbon”.
When you create a metric and a traceability process for the inserted meat in a case like this, where you have soy, corn, tree, pasture, what happens is that the system makes a ‘ offset ‘ of methane emission . Embrapa already have secure data showing that it is perfectly possible, when it computes the carbon, which is incorporated by grassland, the crops, “said Lopes.
Lopes points out that the system of the challenge is the lack of information the farmer and the stimulus for adoption of the system. According to the president, the state has acted in adapting models for medium and small property. In these cases, integration possibilities are more diverse, but still unknown by farmers
“With this system, we are changing the traditional concept of sustainability, which was the following:. Use natural resources so smart, safe and ensure that it is good for their children. We are working on another concept of sustainability, we will deliver a much better product for our children. We are building carbon stocks in the soil, “says Lopes.
Food Security
According to Maurício Lopes, integrated systems reduce the need to use pesticides in the production and act on climate variations and more securely temperature.
“systems integrated as opposed to single systems or massive use of a single species, they are naturally more resilient systems. These systems maintain an extremely diversified biological life, it makes it easier for example, shelter for natural enemies of pests, which is not usually in large cultures. You eliminate shelter for those who would be the natural enemies of pests. When you have a more diversified system, increases the likelihood that you have shelter and protection for natural enemies, “said Lopes.
Development Network
Paul Herrmann, president of farm machinery manufacturer John Deere Brazil and Promotion Network to Crop-Livestock-Forest integration (iLPF) explains that the technology integrates production and preservation of nature.
from the environmental point of view, it is an advance on what we have today, because it always has the ground covered, there is always vegetation, will have less carbon emissions all the time, less global warming. If you can produce the same amount of elements, products that you would in a conventional system, an area six times smaller, with 55% fewer emissions [of gases] “, he said.
Hermann highlights the social benefit technology. “As it is a more intense activity, it is going to have an activity during the year and this fixed labor, create more jobs because it is more intensive, have to have more specialized people to work with the machine, with part of cattle. “
the president of network development underscores the paradigm shift as an obstacle to the use of technology in the country. “The biggest difficulty is the paradigm shift, is not the difficulty of the person to do. Is she put the head that can grow both at the same time without loss of productivity. In general, we are not prepared for this intensive type of work. “
The IAFP Development Network was established in 2012, consists of a partnership between Embrapa and Cocamar companies, Dow AgroSciences, John Deere, Parker, Syngenta. Currently, there are 97 Technological reference units distributed in all Brazilian biomes, which involves the participation of 19 Embrapa research units to disseminate information about the technology.
* The reporter traveled at the invitation of John Deere Brazil
Edition: Valeria Aguiar
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