Instituto Agronômico de Campinas

Research and development

• Agriculture research: with ca. 530 projects, particularly in horticulture, production of coffee, citrus fruits, sugarcane, grains and vegetable fibers in general, floriculture, as well as in soil and climate, phytosanity, agricultural mechanization, etc.
• Phytotechnology and plant improvement: research and development on genetic improvement of cultivars. IAC was singlehandedly responsible for startling and economically important progress in the cultivation of several plants in Brazil, by increasing productive yield, resistance to plagues, adaptation to different soils and climates, etc.
• Soil and weather: pure and applied research on the soil-plant-atmospheric relationships and ecology, with emphasis on types of soils and its improvement, fertilizers, plant nutrition, irrigation and soil conservation. The Institute is a pioneer in the use of satellite-based remote sensing and its applications to agriculture, the study of climate, etc. It has established the Brazilian System of Geographic Information, and databases on agrometereological information for agricultural planning.
• Agricultural engineering: studies on agricultural machinery, dynamometry, new materials, development of prototypes, use of new sources of energy, particularly renewable energy, solar energy, etc.
• Biological sciences: The Institute has pure and applied research laboratories on botany, cytology and cytogenetics. phytochemistry, molecular biology, phytopathology, entomology, virology, nematology, technology of seeds, fibers, etc.

  Services

• Seeds for improved cultivars
• Virus-free plant saplings
• Inoculants for nitrogen fixation and microrhyzic fungus
• Chemical analysis of soils and plants
• Technical analysis of fibers and seeds
• Analysis of plant products
• Introduction, quarantining and interchange of germoplasms
• Botanical identification and classification
• Mechanical tests of tractors and motors
• Agricultural planning

Education and information dissemination