Bahia uses high technology to guarantee cotton quality in Brazil

Published 2020년 8월 19일

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The article highlights the importance of fiber quality analysis in the cotton industry, particularly in Western Bahia, Brazil, with the onset of harvest season. This analysis is crucial for producers to understand the quality of their crop and to assess the performance of new technologies. The High Volume Instrument (HVI) technology is essential for quickly measuring various fiber parameters such as compliance, resistance, thickness, and color. The article also discusses the evolution of fiber analysis, from a less technological and slower process to a more advanced and rapid one, with Brazil analyzing nearly all of its production. Abapa, a Brazilian cotton producers' association, has been using HVI technology since 2014 and has seen an increase in sample analyses this year, anticipating higher quality in the current harvest. The article also mentions the potential of cotton from the Matopiba region to be the best in the country, aiding producers in planning their planting based on contracts and expected quality.
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Revista Rural 265 / Agosto 2020 - With the beginning of the cotton harvest in Western Bahia, the demand for fiber quality analysis resumes, by producers. And given the forecast of production of 592 thousand 269 tonnes in this harvest, this process becomes essential for the cotton grower. "He learns what is the real quality he is producing and also sees the performance of each new technology that has been implemented within the market," says Sérgio Brentano, laboratory manager at the Bahia Association of Cotton Producers (Abapa). To carry out this process, currently the equipment with HVI technology (high volume instrument, in Portuguese) is used worldwide, which includes several measurements of cotton fiber quickly. “In about 30 seconds, we can take the intrinsic parameters and even some extrinsic parameters of the fiber itself”. Among the factors analyzed, is the compliance of the fiber, the resistance to rupture, its thickness and color of the fiber, with its details that lead ...

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