Modeling oil palm crop for Brazilian climate conditions

Victor Hugo Benezoli, Hewlley Maria Acioli Imbuzeiro, Santiago Vianna Cuadra, Michel Anderson Almeida Colmanetti, Alessandro Carioca de Araújo, Christian Stiegler and Sérgio Yoshimitsu Motoike

Agricultural Systems, 2021, vol. 190, issue C

Abstract: The increasing world demand for palm oil led to the expansion of oil palm plantations, especially in the new lands in Southeast Asia, the main producing region in the world. The expansion of oil palm plantations has also occurred in Latin American countries, such as Brazil. Roughly 400 million hectares in Brazil are suitable for the planting of oil palm, but most of this area is currently covered by forest, mainly by the Amazon Rainforest. Climate change has reduced the extent of land suitable for oil palm cultivation in Brazil since under unfavorable climatic conditions, crop yields are reduced. To reconcile the increase in oil palm production in Brazil with the preservation of forests, modeling has been used as a tool to define the best suitable areas for planting expansion, as well as for the assessment of management techniques that aim to increase the yield.

Keywords: Amazon; Agriculture; ECOSMOS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103130

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