Recebimento, beneficiamento e comercialização na Cooperativa Agropecuária Pindo Ltda, de 2008 a 2012

Abstract

This work was carried out to analyse the production of seed of the Cooperativa de Produção Agropecuária Ltda. Pindo, with a branch in San Cristobal, Alto Paraná State, Paraguay. The collective produce their own soybean by means its members. The use of high quality seeds is essential to obtain high productivity condition in this sense, the present work aimed to evaluate rates of receiving, processing and commercialization of soybean from the crops of 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. Information about receive seeds, efficiency in beneficiation, seed quality and quantity marketed was analyzed. In relation to the area inscribed and the quantity received it was estimated the percent of the crude amount of seed in relation to the benefit the average germination of the five years studied and the percent of seeds processed approved for marketing and effective commercialization. The analysis reveals that: The average discard in the processing of soybean seeds was 30.4%, there is need for improvement in internal quality control program and the average germination of seed lots of soybean reached 84.84% and were not marketed only 2.2% of seeds processed.