Cultivo consorciado do milho safrinha com braquiárias: sistemas integrados de produção lavoura-pecuária

Abstract

Brazil presents an expressive growth in relation to the corn culture, also showing an expressive restructuring in the supply and demand market of the cereal. For more than two decades, corn has been cultivated in two harvests in the same agricultural year, one in summer and another in winter. To this end, some techniques were developed to benefit Cerrado soils, consequently increasing productivity. The Livestock Crop Integration System (ILP), in addition to guaranteeing the production of second-crop corn, provides pasture for cattle and silage for other animals. Other benefits are: recovery of degraded soils; reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, among others. The general objective of this study was to present the importance of implantation and management of the consortium between safrinha corn and forage grasses (brachiaria), in view of the sustainability of the productive system. This is a qualitative and bibliographical research, in which the theoretical framework was surveyed in theses, dissertations and articles, in the following online databases: Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES); SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online); Google Scholar (Google Scholar) and Embrapa publications. The filters used were: Corn second crop; safrinha; Integrated Agricultural System; maize and brachiaria consortium. The analysis was carried out from five selected works. The results point to the importance of the Crop and Livestock Integration system, which enables direct planting; reduces the use of pesticides and recovers degraded soils, making production sustainable.