Diagnóstico da adoção de tecnologias de agricultura de precisão em propriedades rurais do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

The management of agribusiness studies the profile and characteristics of farmers in Rio Grande do Sul (RS), adepts, partially adepts and non-adepts the technologies that are part of Precision Agriculture (AP), being evaluated the levels of adoption, perceptions and properties. These data were tabulated and correlated for a systemic view of the environment in relation to PA and its technological tools. This is an exploratory, descriptive, nonprobabilistic sampling study, where 61 farmers from 47 cities in the state of RS are part of the sampling population. With the application of the research through questionnaires and interviews it was possible to tabulate and correlate qualitative and quantitative information, which gave rise to data, such as age group and level of schooling predominant both owners and employees. Regarding the dimensions of the properties that were part of the research, 58,154 hectares were mapped, of these 42,544 of agriculture, 8,512 of pasture and 7,098 of legal reserve, with an average of 953 hectares per property and 74 hectares per field. With the data identified between the main technologies of the AP the use of GPS, Digital Maps and Soil Fertility Mapping, in the opposite direction we identified the Harvest Maps and the Variable Rate Applicators with lower utilization rates. Thus arriving at a view that the AP is one of the great tendencies of the gaúcha and Brazilian agriculture.