Indicadores de produção no beneficiamento de sementes de soja na c.Vale-Unidade de Faxinal dos Guedes,SC

Abstract

The objective of this case of study was to analyze historical data and efficiency levels during conditioning, storage and commercialization of soybean seeds at C.Vale Seed Company. A historical series of data from latest crop seasons was used according to each item performance, with respective variation, to establish the company profile and to propos improvements in the production system. Data belong to the Seed Conditioning Plant of C.Vale, Cooperativa Agroindustrial, Faxinal dos Guedes county, Santa Catarina state. The statistical survey was done over the main numerical components: average volume of receiving, volume of seeds received by seed moisture content range, level of contamination by other cultivars in the seed lots; average germination of lots produced along fourteen harvests and summary of seed lots with germination indicator higher or equal to 90% of the main cultivars, produced by the company through six harvests. The information, to compose the parameters of different levels of efficiency, was obtained from C. Vale files throughout the years, where tables were built presenting for each parameter the average, maximum, minimum and standard deviation for each efficiency indicator. Results allow to conclude that conditioning efficiency has an average performance index of 73,3%; quality control efficiency resulted in an average performance of 97,9% of total lots analyzed; the commercialization efficiency was in average 92,9% of total analyzed and approved seed lots by the laboratory; the production efficiency was in average 70,5% and the receiving efficiency was 1,3t/ha. Drying capacity is less than the receiving potential of seeds with high moisture content recently harvested.