Vivência na pós-colheita de cafés no sul de minas gerais e acompanhamento do processo de secagem

Abstract

Coffee, one of the world's most traded commodities, has a significant production in Brazil, with Minas Gerais being one of the states with the highest production of the crop, generating jobs and income and thus stimulating the economy. For this to happen, the coffee goes through meticulous evaluation processes, its taste and aroma need to be differentiated for marketing outside the country, requiring all stages, from choosing the planting area to processing, to be done correctly. Coffee is a crop that is sensitive to extreme cold and also high temperatures, so regions such as the south of the country are not favorable for the development of the crop, however in Lavras, MG there are excellent climatic conditions for the development of the crop, because the situation in a place of altitude and favorable climate and close to large distribution centers such as São Paulo for example, which facilitates the export and disposal of all production. Fazenda Faria, located in the municipality, is one of the producers with a significant impact on specialty coffees, with grades ranging from 80 to 92, carrying out the processes that coffee needs from harvesting to processing. Harvesting is largely mechanized. Its facilities include a washer that separates the cherry beans and hulls them, green beans and boia, asphalt and cement terraces for pre-drying the coffee, machinery for transporting the coffee and handling it in the terrace, a hopper, a threshing floor and four dryers for drying the coffee.