Brazil Sagri Provides Tender

The Department of Agricultural Production of the Municipal Secretariat for Agribusiness has developed work to provide technical assistance to small rural producers in the region. The director Jos Geraldo Celani coordinator of the team highlights the work that has been carried out at the Stio Nossa Senhora da Abadia in the Mata da Vida region within the Uberaba River Basin. Poultry and pig farmer Marcos Furtado is expanding his broiler breeding laying birds eggs in addition to pigs and composting on the property.According to the professor at Faculdades Associadas de Uberaba FAZU a specialist in chicken breeding and Sagris technique Renata Serafim Furtado has the vision of being a great producer which allows her to develop a very broad work. There are 200 poultry for the production of chicken meat 200 Label Rouge hens for egg production as well as pigs for domestic consumption and small-scale sales.To optimize the area the technicians from the Agribusiness Secretariat prepared a project dividing the picket so that the birds can express the maximum laying potential with well-being having thermal comfort through the sombrites installed on the site. The agronomist Fbio Teixeira Lucas informed that this care reflects on the productivity because the birds enjoy a more appropriate environment valuing their product more adding more value due to the production system with free-range chicken.Renata Serafim recalls that it is proven through research that the fact that the bird scratching eating corn insects fruits and vegetables constantly offered leads to differentiated coloration of the eggs for example with the most yellowish yolk which is characteristic and difference between free-range chicken and farm animal.Fbio Lucas also points out that the producer has a small vegetable garden and wants to expand it. There is already an area reserved for this and the remains of existing vegetables will be used in composting for which the producer has already received training from Sagri.To make organic fertilizer poultry residues and swine manure are mixed with dry leaves and vegetable remains. Marcos Furtado also gets leftover leaves and vegetables from his neighbors that would go to waste. Instead of rotting in Ceasa and elsewhere they are used before the decomposition produces gases like methane he said.Very satisfied with the work the producer pointed out that Sagris professionals are trained taking all the technical alternatives to improve production properly and thus allowing them to add more values to the product. The technicians collected soil samples measured made a relevant installation project with the specific needs of that property. A point highlighted by the poultry farmer and pig farmer is the possibility of using City Hall tractors which because they are subsidized have a much higher cost helping in the reforms of pastures level curves harrowing raising the beds drilling wells and tanks for fish.A practice that caught the attention of Marcos was the possibility of having access to other properties allowing him to know successful cases and share experiences. They are places where projects are already more advanced in execution allowing us to understand the way the work evolves and the results in practice he said.The director of the Agricultural Production Department pointed out that with the hiring of the zootechnician Renata Serafim a specialist in poultry farming the possibilities of developing a greater number of projects increase. He mentions in this area works that are being carried out on properties along the BR-050 especially in family farming. It is the duty of the Secretariat to go to the field and offer assistance to the producer within the range of options that exist whether in poultry farming horticulture farming management dairy and beef cattle swine etc. said Celani. He concludes by saying that any producer can request assistance from Sagri with guidelines and projects.