ORGANIC PRODUCTION: PROPERTIES CHARACTERIZATION AND MECHANICAL SITUATION ON WEED CONTROL

Authors

  • Roger Toscan Spagnolo IFRS -Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul
  • André Oldoni IFSUL - Instituto Federal Sul Rio Grandense - Campus Pelotas
  • Tiago Vega Custódio UFPel - Universidade Federal de Pelotas
  • Antônio Lilles Tavares Machado UFPel - Universidade Federal de Pelotas
  • Ângelo Vieira dos Reis UFPel - Universidade Federal de Pelotas

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13083/reveng.v25i6.796

Keywords:

cultivation techniques, family farming, machines and implements

Abstract

In the last few decades, there has been a significant increase in organic products demand, which are produced without pesticides use. In Rio Grande do Sul, the Sul-Ecológica Cooperative, composed by 250 families, is the representative for organic products production and sails and was a reference to embody this study. The work aimed to characterize the production standards used by organic farmers for their properties, crops cultivated, methods for weed control, traction used and income. The results evidenced organic farmers to own small properties and use the pull-off and manual weeding process for weed control. The crops produced were, in order of importance, corn, beans, potato, fruits and greenery. Operations for weed control were manually done or with the help of animal traction. Overall, monthly gross income was considered low.

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Published

2017-12-21

How to Cite

Spagnolo, R. T., Oldoni, A., Custódio, T. V., Tavares Machado, A. L., & dos Reis, Ângelo V. (2017). ORGANIC PRODUCTION: PROPERTIES CHARACTERIZATION AND MECHANICAL SITUATION ON WEED CONTROL. Engineering in Agriculture, 25(6), 517–525. https://doi.org/10.13083/reveng.v25i6.796

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 6 (2017)

Section

Agricultural mechanization

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