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Research and development

Agnaris invests in applied research: using data to understand how weather, soil and operations relate in the fields of the Northeast. We want to do this together with universities, research institutes and students, and we are open to new projects.

Research areas

Topics we want to work on with partners in the coming years.

  • Weather and agricultural operations

    Forecasting non-workable days, harvest and planting windows, and the effect of climate variability on production.

  • Water and irrigation in the semiarid region

    Efficient water use in irrigated fruit growing and water reserves for livestock.

  • Raw material quality

    The relationship between cutting, transport and processing times and the quality that reaches the plant.

  • Remote sensing

    Satellite imagery to monitor crops, pastures and yield by field block.

  • Agricultural data of the Northeast

    Organizing and standardizing public and operational data from the region for use in research.

How to collaborate

We are open to research partnerships. Some of the ways we propose:

Who it is for

  • Researchers
  • Undergraduate and graduate students
  • Universities and institutes
  • Companies and cooperatives that want to fund research
  1. Projects with universities and institutes

    Joint projects, including with funding agency support, on topics within our research areas.

  2. Student work

    Co-supervision of undergraduate theses, master's and doctoral work that uses real problems and data from the field.

  3. Data access for research

    Anonymized data, under a use agreement and with authorization from the operations that generated it.

  4. Open publication

    Methods and results are published so that other groups can check and continue the work.

Do you have a project, a question or a dataset? Write to the research team.

pesquisa@agnaris.com.br

Study in progressPaper in preparation

Rain and agricultural operations in Pernambuco: 20 years of data

The study analyzes twenty sugarcane seasons across the 43 municipalities of the Zona da Mata of Pernambuco to measure how rain determines the days on which cane can be cut, transported and crushed, and what that means for the operation and for raw material quality. The final goal is to find out how far ahead, and how accurately, non-workable days can be forecast.

Study questions

  1. How many non-workable days were there per season in each municipality, and how has that changed in twenty years?
  2. What is the relationship between rain, harvest days and crushing?
  3. How does rain before and during the season affect cane quality?
  4. How many days ahead can a non-workable day be forecast in a useful way?
Period
Seasons 2004/05 to 2023/24
Area
Mata Pernambucana mesoregion
Municipalities
43
Data
Daily rain from CHIRPS (satellite calibrated with rain gauges), checked against ANA rain gauges, and sugarcane production from PAM (IBGE).
Download the paper (PDF)Available when the paper is published

How to cite

Agnaris. Rain and agricultural operations in Pernambuco: 20 years of data. Recife, 2026. (provisional reference)

The study data, season by season

Scroll the page or use the control to move through the twenty seasons. Each municipality is colored by the rain accumulated during the season.

Season2023/24

Average rain
1,242 mm
Non-workable days
15 days
2004/052023/24

Daily rain estimated by satellite (CHIRPS, University of California, Santa Barbara), averaged per municipality and checked against 12 ANA rain gauges. Non-workable day: more than 10 mm of rain between September and March.

Map of the 43 municipalities of the Zona da Mata of Pernambuco, colored by rain in the chosen season Água Preta Aliança Amaraji Barreiros Belém de Maria Buenos Aires Camutanga Carpina Catende Chã de Alegria Chã Grande Condado Cortês Escada Ferreiros Gameleira Glória do Goitá Goiana Itambé Itaquitinga Jaqueira Joaquim Nabuco Lagoa de Itaenga Lagoa do Carro Macaparana Maraial Nazaré da Mata Palmares Paudalho Pombos Primavera Quipapá Ribeirão Rio Formoso São Benedito do Sul São José da Coroa Grande Sirinhaém Tamandaré Timbaúba Tracunhaém Vicência Vitória de Santo Antão Xexéu Recife Atlantic Ocean 20 km
  • até 1,200
  • 1,200 a 1,450
  • 1,450 a 1,700
  • 1,700 a 1,950
  • 1,950 ou mais
mm per season (September to August). Municipal boundaries: IBGE.
See the season's numbers in a table
Rain by municipality in the 2023/24 season
MunicipalityMicroregionRain (mm)Non-workable days
Água PretaMata Meridional1,50019
AliançaMata Setentrional99315
AmarajiMata Meridional1,32617
BarreirosMata Meridional1,98320
Belém de MariaMata Meridional1,33410
Buenos AiresMata Setentrional87610
CamutangaMata Setentrional1,02919
CarpinaMata Setentrional83213
CatendeMata Meridional1,42714
Chã de AlegriaVitória de Santo Antão96114
Chã GrandeVitória de Santo Antão97512
CondadoMata Setentrional1,15813
CortêsMata Meridional1,44116
EscadaMata Meridional1,17313
FerreirosMata Setentrional1,06417
GameleiraMata Meridional1,58116
Glória do GoitáVitória de Santo Antão87115
GoianaMata Setentrional1,52017
ItambéMata Setentrional1,18015
ItaquitingaMata Setentrional1,23718
JaqueiraMata Meridional1,30716
Joaquim NabucoMata Meridional1,72316
Lagoa de ItaengaMata Setentrional87614
Lagoa do CarroMata Setentrional83715
MacaparanaMata Setentrional92910
MaraialMata Meridional1,23013
Nazaré da MataMata Setentrional8369
PalmaresMata Meridional1,54613
PaudalhoMata Setentrional1,03616
PombosVitória de Santo Antão99613
PrimaveraMata Meridional1,24115
QuipapáMata Meridional1,23412
RibeirãoMata Meridional1,49317
Rio FormosoMata Meridional1,78223
São Benedito do SulMata Meridional1,31112
São José da Coroa GrandeMata Meridional1,86118
SirinhaémMata Meridional1,71820
TamandaréMata Meridional1,89320
TimbaúbaMata Setentrional1,05817
TracunhaémMata Setentrional89311
VicênciaMata Setentrional93915
Vitória de Santo AntãoVitória de Santo Antão1,01115
XexéuMata Meridional1,20212

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