Management Report 2020
Management Report 2020
SLC Agrícola
Climate change & soil
Climate change caused by the increase in the Earth's aver-
age temperature has critical impacts on all production sec-
tors and communities. Changes in rainfall regimes, the in-
tensification of catastrophic weather events and the expan-
sion of desertification processes could severely affect agri-
cultural potential.
To help reverse these risks, our goal is to reduce the carbon
footprint of our production model. We also work to improve
mechanisms for sequestering and fixing carbon in the soil
using agricultural techniques.
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Initiatives that expand soil carbon sequestration
Agriculture and
cattle-raising integration
systems, introducing
cultures with high
biomass production
and quick root growth
Use of cover plants
Soil cultivated using direct seeding has the potential to absorb
an additional 300kg of CO2 per hectare compared to
traditional models. We use this technique on approximately
90% of the area we cultivate each crop year, which represents
the potential to absorb 360,000 tons of CO2 equiva-
lent, which corresponds to planting 51,000 trees.
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Conservation practices
that avoid losses of
soil surface layer
Direct sowing
system
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