When talking about the 45 years of Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), the Senator Wellington Fagundes (PR-MT) highlighted the institution’s advances in Brazilian agricultural production by stating that the Brazil would not be the agricultural power it is today if it were not for the technicians of the institution.
History tells us clearly that without Embrapa and its vast team of professionals, distributed in 42 units, present in all Brazilian biomes, our country would hardly or never would have moved from the monoculture of coffee to become the largest soybean exporter in the world, sugar, orange juice, beef, chicken – he said in a statement to the Senate.
In a speech in the Plenary, the senator highlighted the performance of two units of the company: Embrapa Agrossilvipastoril, installed in 2012 in the city of Sinop, Mato Grosso; and Embrapa Pantanal, based in Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul. According to him, both have been successful in research, technical assistance and technology transfer, always in contact with the demands of the rural producers.