Learn about the main innovation challenges for this sector:

• Implementing production systems with low environmental impact and with certification for tropical conditions in the acai, acerola, banana, cashew, citrus, coconut, cupuacu, guava, papaya, mango, passion fruit and grape chains;

• Expanding the mechanization of grape, citrus and coconut management and harvesting in intensive production systems;

• Increasing irrigation efficiency in açaí, Barbados cherry, banana, cashew, citrus, coconut, papaya, mango, passion fruit and grape crops in the Brazilian Central-West, Northeast and North regions;

• Reducing losses caused by: fusariosis, in pineapple, banana, papaya and passion fruit trees; and fungi of the Botryosphaeriaceae family, in cashew and mango trees and grapevines, in fruit orchards in tropical regions;

• Reducing the effects of water, thermal and salt stresses on banana, cashew, citrus, coconut, guava, mango, passion fruit and grape production chains, in the different tropical fruit production centers;

• Reducing losses caused by viruses in pineapple, papaya, passion fruit and grape production chains in Brazil's tropical regions;

• Reducing post-harvest losses during fruit storage in banana, cashew, papaya, mango, passion fruit, pineapple and grape production chains;

• Reducing losses caused by: red palm mite and coconut mite, in coconut trees; cashew nut moth, in cashew trees; thrips and mango gall midge, in mango trees; and mites and thrips in grapevine crops;

• Implementing new commercial products with bioactive properties from pineapple, acerola, banana, cashew, guava, passion fruit, grape;

• Reducing losses caused by yellow sigatoka and black sigatoka, in banana plants; stem bleeding and sanding and leaf blight complex, in coconut trees; powdery mildew, in cashew trees; witches' broom, in cupuacu trees; and anthracnose, in mango trees;

• Reducing grape, cashew and citrus production losses caused by bacterial diseases in tropical regions;

• Reducing losses caused by: cupuacu fruit borer; trunk borer and tip borer, in cashew trees, and mealybugs in grapevine crops, in the country's tropical regions;

• Extending the production period of açaí, cattley guava, bacury, hog plum, camu camu, cupuasssu, mangaba, nance fruit, pequi, umbu, avocado and sugar-apple in the Brazilian Central-West, Northeast, North and Southeast regions.