Estudo sobre a qualificação dos operadores de máquinas em lavouras no Município de Dom Pedrito-RS

Abstract

The increase in areas of agricultural production, the use of machinery and equipment with aggregated technologies, in order to raise productivity indexes of crops and ignorance of how agricultural workers are prepared to operate these machines, motivated the of this work, in order to get information on what is the training of machine operators, the crops in the municipality of Don Pedrito. This work has as reference, interviews with farmers and agricultural machinery operators, used in rice and soybean crops. He sought to understand the criteria for recruitment and selection of these operators, which their qualifications and how they are trained to operate the new machines with added technology. He tried to also know the main difficulties faced by labor operating these machines, and know the importance of this qualification in the view of respondents. They also noted some socioeconomic and cultural aspects of the workers, and the level of satisfaction and experiences of time that these workers have in carrying out their tasks within the agricultural activity. The approach sought to compare the information obtained in interviews with those found in the bibliography. It was observed that the workers interviewed are quite experienced in the activity, but this experience is the result of empirical knowledge, which would justify the investment in training courses for operators, in order to improve this knowledge and better use of the potential of machinery and equipment used in crops in Dom Pedrito.