About the theme
Matopiba is a region that comprises the Cerrado biome in the states of MAranhão, TOcantins, PIauí, and BAhia, to which Brazilian has expanded since the late 1980s.
Its production ranges from tubers to fruit, including livestock, but stands out in the cultivation of grains and fiber, especially soybeans, corn and cotton. [+] Read more
Questions and answers
What is Matopiba? Which towns does it include? What are the characteristics of the region? What does it produce? Check the answers to those questions and others. [+] Read more
Strategic Territorial Development for Matopiba
Check the figures for agricultural production, jobs and agricultural credit in Matopiba from 2013 to 2018. Visualize them in a map, per town/city, through interactive dashboards.
You can also browse the geoweb with data on which the outline of Matopiba was based, organized in five charts:
- Natural chart: climate, geology, relief, hydrographics, soils, biomes, vegetation, land use and cover, mineral and energy resources;
- Agrarian chart: conservation units, indigenous lands, slave-descending communities, settlements;
- Agricultural chart: production and area;
- Infrastructure: transportation, storage, irrigation, energy;
- Socioeconomics: population, income and rural poverty, social indicators, GDP, social programs.
Technological solutions
Publications
Esta cartilha é uma contribuição para compreender o papel da mulher na cadeia produtiva da produção agropecuária no MATOPIBA ? acrônimo criado a parti...
A caracterização climática de uma região é de grande importância como suporte à tomada de decisões na agropecuária e em outras atividades. O município...
A cultura da soja tem importância na região oeste do estado da Bahia, e no noroeste e centro do estado do Tocantins pelo aumento da área cultivada. Os...
Projects
The project “Technology transfer to consolidate low carbon emission agriculture in Tocantins” was carried out to consolidate an agriculture based in l ...
The project aims to estimate carbon balance in different grain production system scenarios in the major Brazilian biomes, ranking those that reduce th ...
The goal is to assess the economic and ecological effectiveness of different models of forest restoration of degraded areas through the induction of s ...
Videos
16/08/2016 Quadro - C & T em Debate: Matopiba Duration: 11:37" ¦ 249 Views | ||
16/01/2019 Introdução da Soja no Nordeste Duration: 30:50" ¦ 3873 Views |
Embrapa units involved
- Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology
- Embrapa Forestry
- Embrapa Rice and Beans
- Embrapa Cotton
- Embrapa Soybeans
- Embrapa Vegetable
- Embrapa Semi-arid Region
- Embrapa Mid-North
- Embrapa Cerrados
- Embrapa Maize and Sorghum
- Embrapa Temperate Agriculture
- Embrapa Beef Cattle
- Embrapa Western Agriculture
- Embrapa Cocais
- Embrapa Agrobiology
- Embrapa Cassava and Tropical Fruits
- Embrapa Eastern Amazon
- Embrapa Western Amazon
- Embrapa Coastal Tablelands
- Embrapa Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Embrapa Territorial