Caracterização da produção de semente de soja no município de Pedra Preta – MT

Abstract

This study aimed to survey the size of the seed soybean industry as well as cultivars and used cultural treatments. Was employee a questionnaire with ten closed questions and two open, applied via telephone, farmers in the of Pedra Preta city – MT, totaling eight interviews, of ten companies registered at the Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Supply (MAPA). The interviews took place in the period from February to April 2014. It is concluded that the soybean seed business is broad as to have companies cultivating more than 50 thousand hectares and to observe that the most used cultivars are transgenic. It was observed that 88% of companies in the crop sowing off-season, using cultivars of early cycles and semi-early, totaling 63% of the cultivated area.