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Benefits for producers: facilitated purchase of goods up to R$500 thousand

Product allows access to different types of agricultural machinery with a value of R$250 thousand to R$500 thousand With the aim of expanding access to credit for rural producers, agricultural fintech Agropermuta has just launched a new option for acquiring…

Beekeepers served by ATeG hope to surpass a record honey harvest

Some estimate 1.5 tons of production Amidst the flowering, the honey harvest began, which begins in August. Antônio Agêncio Pereira hopes to harvest 1.5 tons of the food in his four apiaries, in Jaciara. If he reaches the milestone, it will be…

Cresol releases first credit from the 23/24 Harvest Plan for bee farming

Cooperator Jackson Baumann, stingless bee breeder in Santa Rosa de Lima (SC), accessed the resource through Pronaf Costing Sociobiodiversity The first release of credit from the 2023/2024 Harvest Plan to finance meliponiculture, the activity of raising stingless bees, took place…

The impact of the cyclone on the economy – more than 29 thousand animals died due to the floods in Rio Grande do Sul

Adverse weather conditions affected 50 municipalities, 665 locations and 10,787 properties By:  AGROLINK  – Aline Merladete A preliminary report that presents losses related to infrastructure, primary production, livestock and pastures, as a result of the extratropical cyclone that hit Rio Grande do Sul…

Researchers produce craft beer with Tiúba bee honey

Work was developed by students and professors of the Federal Institute of Maranhão, Campus Caxias. In Brazil and in the world, craft beer production has grown significantly in recent years. This increase is due, in large part, to the search for…