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Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural
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Abstract

Costa Heitor Scalambrini, Costa Neto Guilherme, Araújo Kassia, Silva Gerson Flávio Da, Raquel Karine. Utilização de cerca elétrica solar para confinamento de caprinos na produção familiar do semi-árido Pernambucano. In: Proceedings of the 6. Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural [Proceedings online]; 2006  June 06-08; Campinas, SP, Brazil. 2006 [cited 2024 Oct 31]. Available from: URL: http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000022006000200051&lng=en&nrm=van .

The Center for Studies and Projects - Naper Solar is an NGO, which works for the dissemination of use of alternative energies resources in the semi-arid Brazilian Northeast in collaboration with the Federal University of Pernambuco. It has implemented caprine raising systems in the Backlands of Pajeú in the State of Pernambuco making use of electrified fences energized by solar energy.This project was executed in a joint effort with the City Halls of Afogados da Ingazeira e São José do Egito and the NGOs Diaconia and the Northeast Woman House and has benefited 20 families of farmers from 9 rural communities. It is funded by a Technical Cooperation Program established between the National Fund for the Environment - Ministry for the Environment and the Netherlands Government. The implemented system, in opposition to the traditional extensive production system, allow for a more animal sanitary control - minimizing the risks of contamination; a more controlled and balanced feeding system - taking into account the weight gaining factor together with pasture management, leading the a guarantee of food supply for the animals. Other advantages of this system include the reduction of fence cost and less deforesting. Electrical fences used in the contention of caprines are built with only 4 straight wires, fixed with isolators on wood posts spaced 10 m from each other, while the conventional fences use 9 barbed-wire lines fixed with clamps on posts spaced 1 m from each other. Therefore, the use of electrical fences instead of the conventional one represent a cost reduction, which can go as high as 40 % of the total cost. Besides that the electrical fences have low maintenance cost, easier and faster installation and relocation. The fenced areas vary from 0.5 ha to 4 ha for the raising of 5 to 50 animals. In the electrification of a fence one needs one photovoltaic module, one electrifier, a battery, isolators (passage and corner), electric ground rods and a thunderbolt deviator kit. In this work the component of an solar electric fence are described together with its main benefits and installation and maintenance costs.

Keywords : Criação de caprinos; tecnologia apropriada; cerca elétrica solar.

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