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Infographic: closed cycle of food production for sugarcane, peanut and oyster mushroom

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posted on 2020-06-24, 11:39 authored by Diego Cunha Zied, Victor Gustavo da Cunha Alves, Eustáquio Souza Dias, Jose Emilio Pardo, Arturo Pardo-Gimenez
This dataset consists of a single infographic in openly-accessible .pdf format, representing an efficient 'closed cycle' of food production, incorporating sugarcane, peanut and oyster mushroom agriculture.

The visualisation presents the production of sugarcane (Saccharum spp.), peanut (Arachis hypogaea) and oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) in tons in 2017, the main uses for the crop product and the cycle of agricultural waste product to production input for each crop. The context of an efficient system of agriculture within Brazil's specific production balance is provided.

Background of research: cycles of agricultural production are becoming increasingly more technologically enhanced, with the objective of producing more, in less space, at low cost, with absence of pests and diseases, using all waste products in a sustainable and high-quality system. Based on this model, the related research investigates a production system that uses peanut waste for substrate supplementation in production of the oyster mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus.

This is a particularly relevant model for the Brazilian economy, where sugarcane is one of the major cultivars of Brazilian agribusiness, and where a number of sugar cane 'reform' areas are cultivated with peanut with the aim of improving the physical, chemical and biological conditions of the soil. Meanwhile mushroom production is accelerating in terms of production in Brazil and South America as a whole. The related publication presents experimental results of the use of peanut waste (hulls and nuts) on oyster mushroom substrate supplementation in terms of total yield.

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