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Degraded soil rebuilt with intercropping
Publicado em 25 de junho de 2016
The old adage, “If it ain't broke, don't fix it,” only works if the “it” isn’t broken. In the case of agricultural practices in Brazil, Cristiano Magalhães Pariz realized something was broken. “About 15 years ago, our research group began to see that crop and livestock activities, when wrongly conducted, were compromising the sustainability of a tropical agricultural system,” Pariz explained. Over time, crop and livestock activities had degraded the soil. The soil had fewer [...]