Research groups

Conducts experiments to collect physiological and physical data from tropical agricultural crops that allow to improve and adapt models of simulation of these plants of agronomic interest. Development of computational programs based on experimental data that simulate the growth and development of certain species of agriculturals, and models of these are applied in studies that contribute to the advancement in knowledge, productivity increase and sustainability of Brazilian agribusiness.

GEPURA emerged from the first actions to construct the Participatory Social and Environmental Master Plan of the "Luiz de Queiroz" Campus of USP, these activities were intended to discuss and propose actions to solve socio-environmental problems existing on campus. In this context, Working Groups (WGs) were created on several themes, from the Water WG, the GEPURA was created, which was made effective and institutionalized in the Council of the Department of Biosystems Engineering (LEB / ESALQ / USP). Council of the Center of Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA / USP), being approved as an inter-unit group in the year 2007, as foreseen in the Commission of Culture and Extension of USP.

The Group was created in 2005, with the objective to develop activities that assist professionals working in the areas of water quantity management to be applied in irrigation, application of computational models aimed at Dynamics of water and solutes in the soil, physical analysis of the agricultural environment and elaboration and assembly of training courses and lectures (symposiums). The group activities involve the management of the amount of water to be applied to the crops: soil moisture estimation, use and application of tensiometers, solution extractors and salinity control in protected environments. It uses models capable of predicting the dynamics of water and solutes in the soil. In order to elucidate questions of financial aspects and possibility of environmental impacts, as well as, the monitoring of nutrient application in the soil, and implementation of systems and projects of Drainage. It uses the crop productivity computational simulation in the most diverse climate, soil and plant situations to evaluate the climatic variables effects on crops in protected environmentsss.
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NUPEA was created in 1991. Nowadays, due to the increase in the critical mass and the activities developed, it has become a Research Center. It works in ambience areas for animal and vegetal production, use of agroindustrial residues, water quality and environmental legislation. It consists of teachers, researchers, postdoctoral students, doctoral students, masters, students of scientific initiation and trainees from different areas.
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