Custos monetários do quiabeiro orgânico em função de lâminas de irrigação automatizada, épocas de cultivo e bombeamento solar fotovoltaico

Abstract

The work was carried out in the Integrated Agroecological Production System (SIPA), known as Fazendinha Agroecológica Km 47, in the city of Seropédica - RJ, Brazil. The objective was to evaluate the productivity, development and economic viability of the okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) of summer, in regrowth driving and in winter cultivation, when submitted to automated irrigation slides and solar photovoltaic energy. An area of 225 m2 was used and the experimental design of randomized blocks with 4 irrigation slides was used, referring to different flows of drippers (2.0, 4.0, 6.0 and 8.0 Lh-1), Arranged in 5 blocks with 4 replicates, totalizing 20 experimental plots. Irrigation management was performed by the Simplified Irrigation Trigger (ASI). Two cultivation cycles were carried out and characterized as a summer crop (October 2015 to April 2016) and later regrowth (April to August 2016) and winter crop (June to September 2016). The total and commercial yields were evaluated in the three periods, as well as quality indices and crop development. The monetary costs were realized considering the costs of implantation and conduction of the crop and the selling prices practiced in the organic and conventional retail market (free markets) and in the wholesale market, being determined the net income, the rate of return and the index of profitability. The monetary costs of the photovoltaic system were calculated from the irradiance data during the cultivation period and the energy consumption of the pump. There was no significant difference between the treatments tested for all variables, except for total and commercial productivity in the eleventh week of winter cultivation. The analysis of monetary costs confirmed the production results, indicating that the lowest applied blade is responsible for the greater profitability and efficiency of water use, even commercializing the production by the values practiced in the conventional wholesale market. Likewise, there was a profitability also with the increment of the photovoltaic system in the total costs of the production system, being smaller, however, when compared to the use of the electric energy for the pumping of water. The minimum yields to be achieved in order to avoid losses were within the range of productivity expected for the crop, for the summer, winter and year of production in the three commercialization systems, even with the cost increase due to the use of solar energy.