50 Fully Free Online Courses Offered by the Giant Embrapa

Embrapa Is Offering Free Online Courses for Composting, Beekeeping, Entrepreneurship, Fertigation, Chromatography and More

The Brazilian Agricultural Research Company (Embrapa), created in 1973 by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food Supply with the aim of ensuring food security for Brazil and a prominent position in the international market for food, fibers, and energy. The company is offering 50 free online courses aimed at agriculture.

Check Out Some Highlights of the Free Online Courses Offered by Embrapa

Composting

• Required Education Level: High School.
• Workload: 10 hours.
• Learning Objectives: The theoretical foundations of topics such as organic matter, waste utilization, and composting, as well as detailed information on planning, conducting, and evaluating composting processes, in addition to the main ways of using organic compounds.

Biodiesel: Concepts, Benefits, and Processes

• Workload: 20 hours.
• Learning Objectives: To point out the differences between biodiesel and fossil fuels, as well as to enumerate the advantages of biodiesel for the environment; Identify and describe the biodiesel production processes most used by the industry; Enumerate the evaluation parameters for biodiesel; Identify the aspects that ensure the quality of biodiesel; Describe the importance of biodiesel in the energy matrix of Brazil and the world; Enumerate the main biodiesel producing countries and the main raw materials used in its production.

Fertigation

• Workload: 32 hours.
• Learning Objectives: To present the advantages and limitations of using fertigation in agricultural crops; Describe the appropriate equipment and accessories for the different irrigation systems and their uses; Describe how to size the variables involved in the fertigation process; Equip participants with knowledge of the necessary equipment, fertilizers, and about calculations, management, and monitoring of fertigation.

Also See Other Free Online Courses Being Offered by Embrapa

• Organic Cotton Cultivation in Semi-Arid Systems
• Passion Fruits: Cultivars, Production Systems, and Market
• Best Practices for Managing Poultry Litter
• National Program for Equine Health – PNSE
• Control of Mites and Lice in Egg-Producing Farms
• Family Pig Farming Without the Collective Use of Antimicrobials
• Chromatography: Basic Concepts
• Production Costs of Broilers and Pigs for Integrated Farmers
• Agronomic Potential of Swine Manure
• Digestate Treatment for Nutrient Removal or Recovery
• Facilitator Training for Learning
• Sustainable Pirarucu Farming: Breeding and Fingerling Production
• Sustainable Pirarucu Farming: From Rearing to Market
• Seed and Seedling Production Technology
• Selecting Goats and Sheep for Breeding
• Sustainable Production of Round Fish
• Basic Concepts of Entrepreneurship
• Seedling Production of Cashew Trees
• Peach and Nectarine Pruning
• Doing It Right: Choosing Forage Plants
• Implementation and Management of the Corn-Brachiaria Consortium
• Introduction to Strategies for Producing Cassava Planting Materials – Reniva
• Mushrooms: Main Characteristics and Potential Markets
• Beekeeping for Beginners
• Backyard Chickens: How to Start or Improve a Small Farm
• Post-Harvest Technology in Fruits and Vegetables (7th Edition)
• Brazilian Land Classification System for Irrigation (SiBCTI) – National Version
• Biological Control: Focus on Caterpillar Management with Bio-Insecticides
• Gardens in Small Spaces
• Introduction to Accessing Native Genetic Heritage and Associated Traditional Knowledge
• Diverse Livestock in Productive Backyards in the Semi-Arid (Pecbioquintal Semi-Arid)
• Aromatic and Culinary Plants: Identification and Cultivation
• Sisteminha Embrapa-Ufu-Fapemig: Management Practices
• Agroforestry Systems for Small Properties in the Brazilian Semi-Arid
• Recovery of Degraded Pastures
• Production of Edible PANCs for Domestic Consumption
• Soil Management Focused on Integrated Production Systems
• Introduction to Integrated Cropping-Livestock-Forestry Systems
• Technologies for Low Carbon Agriculture
• No-Tillage System
• No-Till Planting for Restoring Native Vegetation
• Economic Evaluation of Agricultural Systems
• Banana Irrigation: Water Requirements of the Crop
• Irrigation Methods and Systems for Banana Cultivation
• Tropical Viticulture in the Semi-Arid
• GliriNutri: Use of Gliricidia in Ruminant Feed
• Residential Aquaponics

Registration for Embrapa’s Free Online Courses

To register for Embrapa’s free online courses, just click here, select the course of interest and click on “Register Now”.

Click Oil and Gas is not responsible for filling the vacancies in the free online courses offered by Embrapa, only promoting opportunities in various locations in Brazil and around the world. To register and learn more about the free online courses, visit Embrapa’s website or profile and make sure to check the requirements and activities. Good luck!