Viabilidade de um sistema de produção de leite do tipo compost barn em uma propriedade rural familiar na região das Missões/RS

Abstract

It is now perceived that the activity of milk production supports several families of family agriculture, and can often be the only source of income. Thus, the study approaches the viability of a system of compost barn-type milk production in a family farm in the region of Missões - Rio Grande do Sul. It is noted that the rural producers are in search of improvement and modernization, however this can have a high investment. Therefore, it was delimited as a general objective: To evaluate the feasibility of installing a compost barn in a family farm located in the region of the Missions - Rio Grande do Sul. In order to reach the proposed objective, a descriptive type, where the collection procedure is characterized as a case study and the nature of the data as qualitative. The sources of information used were primary data through interview and secondary data from documentary analysis. The results were obtained by means of projections of the data collected for a period of four years considering the traditional system that the property currently uses and from the installation of a system compost barn. To do so, the projections were based on three scenarios directly related to milk sales revenue, where, for the pessimistic scenario, the lowest price paid for milk of R $ 0.92 was considered, for the realistic scenario a price average of R $ 1.19 and for the optimistic scenario, the best average price in recent years of R $ 1.31. Thus, comparing the systems of milk production, it was verified that in the traditional system in the pessimistic scenario the property would have negative results due to the high cost of production and the low value paid by the milk, already in the system compost barn would start with negative result and would obtain an improvement over the years with positive results. In the realistic and optimistic scenario, the systems presented positive results, however the system compost barn indicated a more significant operating result in comparison to the traditional system. So much so that, it was verified that the investment is feasible in the realistic scenario with a period of 6 years to recover the initial invested resources and in the optimistic scenario with a period of 5 years. However, considering the pessimistic scenario, it was verified that the investment is not feasible, that is, the investment is not paid, presenting payback higher than the period under analysis. Therefore, if the price of milk is above R $ 1.10, it becomes interesting if the property resolves to invest in this business, so much that it will obtain satisfactory results.