ANÁLISE E CLASSIFICAÇÃO DA QUALIDADE DE GRÃOS DE FEIJÃO

Abstract

This work is a report of the supervised internship at the company Centrooeste Vale do Araguaia with the objective of buying and selling beans, of the species Phaseolus vulgaris (L) and Vigna unguiculata (L), also evaluating the quality of the grains, carrying out their correct sampling and classification according to Normative Instruction 12 and the manual of procedures of the Ministry of Agriculture. The visual inspection of the product is of extreme importance for the classification of these, while food products, knowing that the visual characteristic and the quality are the main criteria considered by the consumers, as well as for determination of the price by the supplier, it is up to the companies responsible for this process meets the criteria imposed by the norms and procedures manual of the Ministry of Agriculture, complying with all the operational steps that determine how the bean grain should be classified into groups, classes and types. The quality of the product and the classification process have challenges related to being a manual process and also because it has difficulties in achieving a standard result. So, through this stage, it was possible to understand the relationship between theory and practice, and the applicability in the aforementioned normative and the manual, aiming to better understand this problem and its possible solutions in favor of the inspection of the quality of the product, where it was considered that the methods used allow a quality classification with satisfactory results.