Desempenho agronômico de cultivares de mamona no Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

The demand for technical information about castor crop in Rio Grande do Sul, has intensified in the past two years due to the government stimulation for the production of biofuels, through several applications of castor oil in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry and productivities achieved by castor crop in trials and experimental crops. Undoubtedly, this crop is an alternative to family farming diversification and to the development of the southern of the state, helping to create jobs and income. Research about the techmiques on castor planting are still incipient, lacking local technical information about the specie, difficulting its expansion. Thus, simultaneous actions are needed from several knowledge areas to generate technical information aiming to build a viable and sustainable castor production system. The objective of this work was generate technical information that will contribute to the construction of a production system that allows the commercial castor exploitation in the southern region of Brazil, through the evaluation of genotypes, times and densities of sowing. The test for evaluating cultivars have been conducted in three locations using seven varieties and six hybrids. The experiments of sowing time were planted in three places and three times, using four cultivars, two varieties and two hybrids. The density trial was composed of four cultivars, two varieties and two hybrids, where have been tested three sowing densities for varieties and hybrids. Ricinus communis. sowing times. sowing densities