The EEA-UFRGS has 17.379 m² of improvements built in it area. These improvements include functional housing, machinery sheds, garage, washing facilities and lubrication, accommodation with classrooms and TV room, worker home, fuel tank, kitchen and dining room, Postharvest Grain Pole centers, management centers of cattle and sheep, and facilities and laboratories in each of the sectors. Accommodation, meeting classroom, TV room and office has Internet service through wireless network (Wi-Fi). The distribution of built areas by sectors of the EEA-UFRGS can be seen below.

Table –BuiltArea by sector in the EEA-UFRGS

Source: UFRGS

The EEA-UFRGS has 20 tractors with power from 30 to 125 hp, a harvester with an output of 150 horsepower, a cereal automated harvester for the experimental plots, an excavator with 80 horsepower, a backhoe with 75 hp and various implements (plows, bars, chisel plow, seed drills, planers, scraper, trailers, mowers, bulk, sprayers and distributors). It also has a 150 hp truck with 8 tons of PBT, a bus ( with 40 passenger seats), a minibus (with 14 passengers seats), a car for the director, a car to transport the administrative and technical staff, three loading trucks  (diesel), two with double cabin, five vehicles for internal displacement, two diesel, two petrol and one alcohol.

To supply the fleet of the station there is a tank with a capacity of 15.000 liters of fuel.

For drinking water there are wells at a rate of about 30 m³ / h.

For the supply of electricity, of all sectors of the station, there is a three-phase transmission network, with approximately 10.000 m long and 09 transformers with capacities ranging from 35 kva, 45 kva (mostly) and 75 kva.

Table Existing functional dwellings at the EEA-UFRGS

Source: UFRGS

The sector of crop plants has an approximate area of 127 hectares with crops of white oats, soybeans, corn, wheat, barley, etc.

Horticulture and Forestry Sector has a total area of approximately 150 hectares, 40 hectares used for research in horticulture. This research area, 18 hectares are used with orchards, distributed among citrus  (orange, mandarin, lemon ...), rosettes (peach, apple, pear, plum, loquat and apricot) kiwi, grapes, avocado, persimmon trees, small fruits (blueberries, brambles, raspberries), pecan and tung. It has a Matrix Plant, Nurseries and other support structures for the production and early development of fruit seedlings.

In the sector of Zootechnics, an area of 890 hectares is intended for 1.000 beef cattle and 150 sheep. For these animals, there are four management centers (three for cattle and one for sheep). There are two aviaries with 600 m² each to meet research in poultry production and posture.

Phytosanitary sector consists of apiculture and Postharvest Grain pole activities. Apiculture includes Curtinaz type and Langstron type hives, processing room, storage room for honey and practical classes.

The Postharvest Grain pole has a total storage capacity of 56 tons of grain, consisting of 12 stationary storage silos, a receiving hopper, an elevator and grain pre-cleaning and cleaning equipment and screw conveyor, equipped laboratory, distributed on four buildings. It has a structure for solar drying, natural air drying (via fans), and hot air drying (use of firewood and liquefied petroleum gas - LPG) with automatic drive. The Postharvest grain pole has a LPG tank.

The activities developed by the administrative sector aimed at maintaining the operational flow of the EEA-UFRGS in line with the purposes of the unit, especially on supporting teaching, research and extension activities of the Agronomy and Veterinary Faculties and Zootechnicscourse. For this purpose, the following activities are conducted:

·         Agricultural and livestock activities and research support;

·         Investment, maintenance and infrastructure maintenance;

·         Human resources management,

·         Receipt of donations;

·         Management and control of resources;

·         References and dissemination of the activities of the EEA-UFRGS

The Agricultural Research Station of the UFRGS, is in the road BR-290, Km 146, Eldorado do Sul, Cep: 92990-000.

Contact phone (51) from 9866-6205.

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