The Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia, UFRA, is a Brazilian public University located in Belém, Pará, Brazil. The UFRA has marked its origin in the School of Agronomy of Amazon, created in 1945, which was born with the purpose of preparing agronomists of the North of Brazil, It started operating in 1951, and already in the 1960 consolidated as a training institution for Human Resources in Agricultural Sciences.