Coletores alternativos para a determinação da largura de trabalho de distribuidores de fertilizantes sólidos à lanço

Abstract

The uniformity of the application in the soil of fertilizers is an important factor in the efficiency of use of the fertilizers and his effect stop plants. The distributors of fertilizers to I throw demand her some basic tunings in what concerns to the flow and work width. The rehearsals of work width and distribution uniformity are of difficult execution for the farmer for they demand equipments, resources and complex methods. Therefore, this work had as objective evaluates alternative collectors to turn more accessible the tuning and evaluation of distributors of fertilizers solid her throw. The work was accomplished in the Agrarian Foundation of Agricultural Research - FAPA, located in the district of Among Rivers, municipal district of Guarapuava - Paraná. Four different groups of collectors were used: i) Collectors built according to the norm ISO 5690/1; ii) Collectors of polyethylene (plastic trays) with soubrette to avoid the material rebound; iii) Collectors formed by boxes of milk long life; iv) Collectors formed by vases of polyethylene (Number 3,5). To the evaluation of the strip of traverse distribution, the collectors were distributed side by side parallel amongst themselves, forming a traverse line to the displacement of the tractor and distributor. A tractor was used Ford, model 7630, in which distributors were coupled: Jan, model Lancer Master 1200; Incomagri, model Sembra 1300-P AH; and Nogueira, model Rota Flow. The alternative collectors presented a larger retention than the established collectors. This relative difference among the collections was larger in the extremities of the distribution profile. The width executes of work obtained for the coefficients of variation of 12,5, 15, 17,5 and 20% varied among the collectors in the different courses. The collector that more it resembled each other the norm were the vases of polyethylene. It was observed that the height of the collectors went more important for his/her efficiency of what his/her collection area.