Levantamento das perdas quantitativas na colheita mecanizada de amendoim na região de Guatapará - SP.

Abstract

The peanut Brazilian production has grown in the last years as in productivity, such a planted area, detaching the São Paulo state as great producer. These increases had started to demand greater quality and rapidity in the harvest, that when carried through improperly, causes considerable losses, diminishing the productivity and the profit of the producers. The present work has as objective to quantify the losses in the peanut mechanized harvest in three properties of the region of Guataparará - SP. For the three evaluated properties the string beans losses in the collect had been greaters that the losses in the pull out and the grains losses in the collect.