Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: KARLLA MIRANDA DA COSTA

Quality of mechanized soil preparation operations for the implementation of cocoa farming in Una-BA, Brazil.

Mechanization. Cocoa. Management. Statistical Process Control. Control Charts

The present work is the result of the characterization of the disposition of the use of agricultural mechanization, in the production of cocoa in a family farming area of lot 42 in Colônia de Una. The results were achieved through the operational performance of agricultural implements with the objective of evaluating the best strategy to increase productivity, through a survey of existing implements and machines in the research area, calculation of the machinery's execution time; In addition to productivity analysis based on time and motion studies. And so, optimize costs in agricultural production and promote strategies for using machinery collectively through scheduling. Trinidad-type cloned cocoa management was identified, and how implements and machines were used in preparation for its planting. Determination of mechanized operation, area cleaning, soil preparation, planting and cultural treatments. The mechanization index was determined from the survey of operations and number of mechanized sets. It was possible to notice that mechanization is present in all cocoa planting activities. It can be concluded that from the implementation of control in mechanized operations in soil preparation, it allows the family farmer to have less operating costs based on the calculation of the time spent in mechanized operations. So, if the tractor and the implements are shared like those of the cooperatives, there is a better use strategy in a more optimized way.