Eficiência energética da produção de café orgânico na região sul de Minas Gerais

• Autor(a) principal: Turco, Patrícia Helena Nogueira [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Esperancini, Maura Seiko Tsutsui [UNESP], Bueno, Osmar de Carvalho [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.17224/EnergAgric.2012v27n2p86-95; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/137641
• topic: Energy performance; Organic production; Sustainability; Café orgânico; Eficiência energética

In this study, organic coffee production systems energy efficiency was estimate. So, an itinerary technical was built since the deployment phase up to the organic coffee production. The inputs used (labor, machine hours, pesticides, fertilizers, etc.) converted into energy units, quantified the energy input, while the production of organic coffee beans benefited was constituted the energy output. Data collection was based on an intentional and non-probabilistic sampling. Nine farmers were interviewed whose main source of income was the coffee production and had keep records of the culture data. The balances were positive, with an energy yield of 626.465MJ.ha-1, compared to an energy expenditure of 112.998MJ.ha-1 during the crop cycle. It is concluded that organic coffee production is energy efficient.