MONITORAMENTO DO SISTEMA DE MANEJO DA CANA-DE-AÇÚCAR NAS MICRORREGIÕES DO TRIÂNGULO MINEIRO E ALTO PARANAÍBA, MINAS GERAIS, BRASIL (2015-2017)

Abstract

In the sugar cane production process, due to socio-environmental and the economics behind it, sugarcane harvesting is the stage required to undergo significant technological changes. Therefore, for the last decades Brazil has invested in new technologies to meet the market standards, which basically consist of using no fire during pre-harvest as it only emits pollutants into the atmosphere. From that perspective, this work aims to diagnose the area where sugarcane is cultivated and to identify the cutting process system used with or without the use of fire in the mesoregion known as Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaíba (TMAP) in 2015 and 2017. The research methodology consisted of mapping sugar cane based on the year 2015 and monitoring these areas in the year 2017, using multitemporal satellite images during the period corresponding to the cane harvest (April to October). The results of the research allowed the following conclusion: there was a reduction of 28.3% in the total area harvested with sugarcane (mechanized and burned) in TMAP in the analyzed period.