Avanços científicos do sistema de produção do maracujazeiro no semiárido brasileiro: uma revisão sistemática.

Abstract

The semi-arid region is known for the irregularity of rainfall and biotic factors such as salinity and high levels of temperature and evapotranspiration, which limit the potential of crops. Passion fruit is an important crop and considered a source of sustainable development of national fruit production, several advances have been made to improve the potential of this crop in the different regions of the Brazilian Northeast. Therefore, the objective was to analyze the potential of scientific advances in passion fruit cultivation in semi-arid regions. Methods of study and research of the procedures were chosen, namely: surveys referring to agriculture and agronomic factors of passion fruit based on data in different international and national scientific repositories; analysis of what is intrinsically linked to the technologies developed in the process from planting to harvest. For searches in Scopus, Scielo, Web of Science and EMBRAPA, the following keywords were used together with the Boolean operators AND, OR/NOT: Passiflora, edulis, irrigation, salinity. In academic Google, keywords that were correlated with the subject in question were used: Passiflora sp, Passiflora edulis, passion fruit, passion fruit culture in the Northeast. Articles were selected based on title and abstract. From the searches on the aforementioned national and international platforms, it can be seen that studies are still scarce, which is why the semi-arid region has a low yield in relation to other producing regions. The main challenges of technological advances in passion fruit cultivation are the strong fluctuation in productivity, largely related to phytosanitary problems, often constituting a limiting factor for the expansion of the culture in Brazil. Technological advances suggest that the implementation of new technologies in fruit farming will allow significant increases in production. The challenge is to make the knowledge generated by the research available and used, being done through access to new technologies with projects made available by companies and the government through public policies.