Análise comparativa de sistemas de direcionamento na operação de pulverização terrestre

Abstract

With the agricultural mechanization in expansion in the country, a lot of farmers, in order to optimize resources in the property, invest in technologies and agriculture techniques of precision for decreasing the cost of production, turning this activity into something feasible to their businesses. The objective of the present study was to run a comparative analysis between two direction systems, one of them without precision orientation, guided by the operator and the other system using resources of an automatic pilot, in order to limit through field tests the overlapping in the application of chemicals generated during the traffic of the group tractor plus sprayer. The spraying tests were run in a rectangular field of 20 hectares, all the circuit of movement of the group tractor plus sprayer followed the operation process back and forth with maneuvers on the heads of the field with previous alignment in each line of application. To be possible to obtain the medium overlapping of the width of the sprayer bar of 18 meters on both systems of direction, about 192 points average were collected throughout each strip, reaching the value of overlapping to the system without precision orientation of 9.48% and 0.44% for the automatic pilot system. From these data, the number of necessary transversal lines was presented for each of the systems of direction to attend to the experimental area, making it possible to estimate the total expenses and the cost reduction per hectare. Saving 17.61 R$ per hectare, it is possible to say that the investment of R$ 64,145.43 (sixty-four thousand, one hundred and forty-five reais and forty-three cents), referring to the acquisition of the system of automatic pilot, it is feasible for the studied property of 1300 hectares, for a period of amortization of 10 years referring to the life span of equipment involved (tractor and sprayer).