Parâmetros mecânicos de tração em sistemas de cultivo de melancia

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Michele da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria; BR; Engenharia Agrícola; UFSM; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Agrícola
• Palavras-chave em Português: Engenharia agrícola; Máquinas agrícolas; Relação máquina-solo-planta; Aquisição de dados; Preparo do solo; Escarificação; Agricultural engineering; Agricultural machinery; Soil-plant-machine relationship; Data acquisition; Soil tillage; Chiseling; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::ENGENHARIA AGRICOLA
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/7528

In Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, the watermelon is cultivated in a large area of sandy soils, where the conventional tillage is the most commonly used, favoring the water erosion. This leads the areas under cultivation of this vegetable to intense erosive processes, which in some cases at the end of cultivation, the areas become unfit for further cultivation. In order to evaluate the performance of the watermelon crop from the point of view of production in different systems of soil tillage, in sandy soil, analyzing the operating factors of the tractor-implement set by means of an electronic system of measurement, was conducted under field conditions, an experiment at São Roque Farm, Dilermando de Aguiar County, localized at the Central Depression region of Rio Grande do Sul. The soil was a typic Hapludalf, with plots of 6 x 8m. The experimental design was randomized block with four replications and seven treatments in a factorial 7 x 4. The obtained data were tabulated and submitted to ANOVA and Tukey test with a 5% of probability error, and used the computer application MSSAAGRI to the procedure of statistical analysis. The applied treatments were: conventional tillage (PC), with one plowing and two harrowing; no- tillage (PD); tillage with a chisel plow with one shank (PDE1H); tillage with a chisel plow with two shanks (PDE2H); tillage with a chisel plow with three shanks (PDE3H); tillage with a chisel plow with four skanks (PDE4H) and tillage with a chisel plow with five shanks (PDE5H). The analysis of the results indicated that, generally, the variables such as traction power, required strength by the draw bar, slip the run and fuel consumption increased due to the addition of the number of shanks on soil tillage. The conventional tillage was higher in fuel consumption, showing 207.5 and 151.7% higher consumption in relation to the PDE1H and PDE5H treatments, respectively. The area of mobilized soil by conventional preparation was 349.6% higher than the PDE1H treatment. The conventional preparation can be replaced by minimum tillage with scarification, or even by the no-tillage, for the soil tillage to the watermelon crop, indicating a good yield, with lower fuel usage, less soil revolving and more soil conservation, being a path to sustainability of this crop cultivation.