In 2020, Embrapa unveiled the BRS A502, an adaptive rice variety that has reshaped farming in Brazil’s Cerrado. By 2023, it propelled Goiás’s rice cultivation under pivot irrigation from 3,000 to 15,000 hectares, equating to flooded rice in productivity. Spanning Goiás, BRS A502 thrives from east to west, south to north. This shift to sustainable […]
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