Avaliação funcional e ergonômica de dispositivo de auxílio ao transporte manual do figo (Fícus carica L).

Abstract

The transport of the fig harvested, of the orchard until the processing, is made traditionally with basket of bamboos that are handling discomfort and harm the final quality of fruit. Looking for to reduce losses and to improve the work conditions, it is being developed for the Embrapa - Feagri (College of Agricultural Engineering of the UNICAMP) a new basket of harvest that more takes care of to the necessity of protection of the fruits and either to be more comfortable for handling. This work looked for to evaluate a prototype of the basket Embrapa - Feagri of the point of view of the handling comfort, that it used anthropometrics and biomechanics parameters. Besides that, it was evaluated the efficiency of the protection accomplishes of the fruits, in the new basket, during the transport. For this research had been used quantitative and qualitative methods. The field tests had been made in producing properties of fig of the region of Valinhos, São Paulo.