From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) is receiving project plans in advanced biology and its applications in agribusiness. The total value of resources directed is of US$ 8.35 million. The researches in biotechnology have as their aim exploiting genetic variability that exists in biodiversity. This allows for generating alternatives
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The figure, referring to 2005, is part of a study by the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, one of the most famous Brazilian business administration schools, in São Paulo (SE), and represents growth of 16.7% over the expenses made by financial institutions in the area in the previous year. Banks invested 11% of their net assets in technology in 2005.
The city of Alegrete, in Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, will receive a power plant to generate energy from rice residues. It is going to produce 36,600 megawatts per year and will work together with a silica producing unit, which is a compound used to produce glass and construction materials, amongst other things.
The president of the leather division of the Cairo Chamber of Commerce, Mohamed Wasfy, is in Brazil to see some of the national machinery for manufacturing shoes. The Egyptians plan on opening a centre to train workforce for the industry. Yesterday Wasfy visited installations of the National Service of Industrial Education in Rio Grande do Sul.
Agência Brasil Star City (Russia) – The three astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) who will return to planet earth this weekend, the Brazilian Marcos Pontes, the Russian Valery Tokarev and the American Willian McArtur, will make the final leg of their journey in a round capsule weighing 2.9 tons containing four square meters of
The armies of the two countries presented last week, in Brazil, the prototype of a military vehicle to be used by the Brazilian and Argentinean military forces. This is the result of a scientific and technological agreement signed between the two governments in the 1980s.
The minister of Local Administration and Environment of Syria, Helal Alatrash, was impressed with the work executed in São Paulo in basic sanitation and control of environmental pollution. He arrived in Brazil last week. Alatrash visited institutions in the area and participated in a biodiversity conference in Curitiba.
Marcos César Pontes is participating in The Centenary Mission, a name given in homage to another historic flight by the Brazilian Santos Dummont in aircraft 14-Bis, in 1906. The Soyuz spacecraft should be launched from Baikonur base, in Kazakhstan, today, headed for the International Space Station.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Vehicle maker Agrale has sold its first biodiesel powered vehicle in Brazil, the Agrale 4.100.4 Biodiesel, in its 4.000 line. The vehicle was purchased by farmer Aristides Antônio Cavagnolli, in the city of Coronel Pilar, in the region of the Valley of the Wineries, in the southern Brazilian state
Company Flytex, from the interior of the state of São Paulo, which is specialized in uniforms for professionals like aeronauts and policemen, made the uniform that will be used by Brazilian astronaut Marcos César Pontes at the International Space Station.
