Avaliação técnica da produção de sementes de soja da Empresa G.P. S.A. – Paraguai

Abstract

The seed company G.P. S.A. is located in Juan Eulogio Estigarribia Dr. in Caaguazú department, Paraguay. It started its activities in the production of soybeans and wheat in 2010. In 2013, production was 206.497 bags (40kg) of soybeans and 24.116 bags (40kg) of wheat. This paper intended a technical evaluation of the production of soybeans company and verification of improvements in internal control quality, thus providing information that can assist in making business decisions. The data were taken from collections made in the archives of the company in 2011, 2012 and 2013. The parameters analyzed were the percentage of germination and vigor stratified into classes, developments in quality control , efficiency in the milling process , discard the test, drying of the seed, and the number of lots with some degree of varietal contamination. Data analysis shows that the internal quality control has increased since the founding of the company, providing the decrease of disposal and consequent increase in the adoption of the lots in the course of years. Another factor worth noting is that the germination and vigor of seed are produced in ascending order, ending the year 2013 with most lots with germination and greater than 90% effective. One can even say that the disposal test performed by the laboratory is efficient, depicting the percentage of actual disposal in processing (15.10% in the last 2 years). However, the amount of sold lots some degree of contamination with in 2013 was high (41.07%) and drying capacity is not enough to meet the requirement of drying the seed produced by the company.