Jandaíra Honey Route in Rio Grande do Norte – a project approved by the Ministry of Regional Development and one of the coordinators is professor Jean Berg Alves da Silva, from the Animal Health line, aiming at mapping the production of jandaíra honey in Rio Grande do Norte, evaluating aspects of production and product quality.
Cordeiro Potiguar Project – It is coordinated by professor Patrícia Lima de Oliveira, from the Production and Conservation line of the semiarid region, and has as members the professor Jean Berg Alves da Silva, from the Animal Health line. Its members are Jean Berg Alves da Silva, from the Animal Health line. It aim at mapping the production of lambs in Rio Grande do Norte, assessing aspects of production and product quality, and seeking to develop technologies aimed at the use of water for the production of forage. The project counts in addition to the Ministry of Regional Development, with SEBRAE and IDIARN, having received financial resources in the order of R $ 500,000.00 (Five hundred thousand reais).
Rota do Cordeiro: Health and Product Quality – a project approved by the Ministry of Regional Development and its members are Jean Berg Alves da Silva and Raimundo Alves Barreto Junior, both from the Animal Health line. This project has aimed to map the main conditions that affect the newborn sheep herd and the quality of its products. The project counts in addition to the Ministry of Regional Development, with SEBRAE and IDIARN, having received financial resources in the order of R $ 250,000.00 (Two hundred and fifty thousand reais).
Platform for the Semi-Arid Technologies Portfolio – Platform approved by the Ministry of Regional Development and one of the coordinators is professor Jean Berg Alves da Silva, from the Animal Health line. It aim to develop a platform that gives visibility to the technologies developed for the semiarid, allowing the integration between universities or research centers and public and private actors from different areas of economic development in the Brazilian semiarid region. The project counts in addition to the Ministry of Regional Development, with SEBRAE and IDIARN, having received financial resources in the order of R $ 1,000,000.00 (One million reais).
Project “Animals from UFERSA – A Action for Everyone” – Professor Alexandre Rodrigues and Prof. Alexsandra Fernandes Pereira participates as members of this important project, created in 2019, under the coordination of Prof. Dr. Nilza Dutra Alves, from the Graduate Program in Environment, Technology and Society. The action is aimed at the development of the care for these animals, including feeding, reproduction control, care for the environment, society and dispersing waste and garbage, with the clusters of dogs and cats on the streets, especially during the cio period. It aims to reduce significantly the harm caused to the environment, the population of Mossoró\RN, the UFERSA community, professors, undergraduate and graduate students and administrative technicians.
Inspection of products of animal origin for the Municipality of Mossoró. The City of Mossoró signed on July 8, 2019, the law that regulates the Municipal Inspection Service – SIM, which is now linked to the Brazilian System for the Inspection of Products of Animal Origin – SISBI, of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply. With this, the Municipal Inspection Service will be responsible for inspecting minimally processed products of animal and vegetable origin. UFERSA, together with SEBRAE, participated in all the standardization and now enters into the provision of this service through an agreement that must be signed with the City Hall.
Provision of Veterinary Services and Integration with the Residence. Through the Veterinary Hospital of UFERSA, the professors Carlos Iberê, João Marcelo Antunes, Raimundo Alves Barreto and Valéria Veras work with the population, as well as tutoring the Veterinary Residency at UFERSA.
Publication of teaching material in language accessible to society. A clear example of the result of this goal achieved was the publication of the booklet entitled “Termination of lambs in confinement fed with whole grain” as a result of the thesis of PPGCA student Hélia Maria de Sousa Leite, guided by Prof. Patrícia Lima, and promoted by SEBRAE, RN.
Another clear example of this incentive was the launch of the book “Reproduction of Dogs”, which was developed by the partnership between Marcelo Rezende Luz of UFMG and Alexandre Rodrigues of PPGCA. It is important to highlight the social insertion made possible by the launch of the book, since the main target audience was dog breeders.