Internationalization
The Graduate Program in Agronomy is progressing gradually on international activities.
Professor Cid Naudi Campos participated in the XVIII International Plant Nutrition Colloquium, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2017, presenting the study entitled “Nano-zinc oxide: A new source for biofortification of rice”.
Professor Paulo Carteri Coradi has an important collaboration in academic research with Dr. Pragya Kumar and Dr. Naeem Zafar from The University of California, Berkeley, within a scientific research project entitled “Development of sensors to control stored grain mass”. Besides, Professor Coradi participated in an event organized by a group of researchers from Latin American in 2017, with the purpose of integrating a workgroup on food security in Latin America, which is financed by the Food Security Center from Germany. This group aims to disseminate knowledge throughout the food chain to ensure the safety and quality of food in the world. The event was at the University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica, and Coradi gave a talk on “Post-harvest and food security in Brazil”.
Professor Coradi participated in the 3rd International Conference on Agricultural Engineering and Food Security, Berlin, Germany, 2018, in which he gave a talk on ‘Traceability, food safety and quality of post-harvest corn grain and storage for poultry production in Brazil”.
In 2018, Professor Jorge González Aguilera from Cuban was hired to act as a Visiting Foreign Professor at CPCS-UFMS. Professor Aguilera has taught in Spanish at the undergraduate and graduate levels at CPCS/UFMS.
Furthermore, an agreement is being signed for 60 (sixty) months between UFMS and Universitá Degli Studi di Cagliari (UNICA/Italy) by the respective rectors.
The Graduate Program in Agronomy achieved significant progress in internationalization in 2019, such as the Protocol of intentions signed with the Universitá Degli Studi Di Cagliari (UNICA/Italy) and the international mobility project, which is in its final stage.
The UFMS, through the Graduate Program in Agronomy, signed in 2019 the Protocol of Intent with the Universitá Degli Studi Di Cagliari (UNICA/Italy). This agreement aims to promote the academic, scientific, technical, cultural and inter-university cooperation, and training, improvement, and specialization of professors, students, and technicals, as well as institutional development.
The International Mobility Project for the participation in the Erasmus+ Program with the Universitá Degli Studi Di Cagliari (UNICA/Italy), Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Federal University of the Semi-Arid (UFERSA), Federal University of Ceará (UFC) and State University of Rio Grande do Norte (UERN) has been completed. This Project will enable academic, scientific, technical, cultural, and inter-university exchange, aiming the formation and improvement and the specialization of professors, students, and technicals, as well as institutional development.
In 2019, Professor Fabio Henrique Rojo Baio organized the scientific event IX SINTAG – International Symposium on Application Technology. This event had speakers from China and United States of America, as well as participants from Paraguay, Argentina, and Uruguay. In this event, master students from the Graduate Program in Agronomy presented expanded summaries, such as: Alex Rogers Zannin – “Effect of the wear of hydraulic ceramic tips on the droplet spectrum”, and Daniele Alixame – “Effects of use in the field on ceramic tips for extended use”.
Professor Paulo Eduardo Teodoro became Academic Editor of Plos One and Associate Editor of Agronomy Journal in 2019. Furthermore, he acted as president of the Scientific Committee of the IX SINTAG – International Symposium on Application Technology. It is important to highlight that Professor Teodoro has H index equal to 10 (Scopus base).
In 2019, Professor Cid Naudi Silva Campos participated in the XXII CLACS – Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencia del Suelo in Uruguay. He presented the studies entitled “Nutritional diagnosis of snap beans grown in the omission of macronutrients” and “Silicon mitigates both boron deficiency and toxicity in cotton” in this scientific event.
Professor Ricardo Gava participated in the Inovagri International Meeting, and he presented the studies entitled “Soybean irrigation management in no-tillage system with crop residue of Brachiaria ruziziensis”, and “GPVI 1.0: web script for historical series of crop water balance”. These works had the participation in co-authorship of the Master in Agronomy Mayara Fávero Cotrim and master’s student in Agronomy Carlos Roberto Wassolowski.
Most of the PProgram’s publications (approximately 90%) in 2019 were in English language. It is important to highlight that there was an advance in publications by professors from Graduate Program in Agronomy with foreign co-authorship in 2019, such as:
– Manuscript: “A statistical approach to the morphological classification of sp. seeds” with the participation of the Professor Charline Zaratin Alves and co-authors from Universitá Degli Studi Di Cagliari (UNICA/Italy);
– Manuscript: “Studying the link between the physiological performance of Crotalaria ochroleuca and the distribution of Ca, P, K and S in seeds with X-ray fluorescence” authored by Master in Agronomy Mayara Fávero Cotrim and collaborators, including the Professor Gianluigi Bacchetta from Universitá Degli Studi Di Cagliari (UNICA/ Italy).
Based on these activities, we believe that the Graduate Program in Agronomy has advanced regarding the internationalization.