Avaliação de resultados econômicos de diferentes métodos de produção

Abstract

The population is growing at a rapid pace and production must continue in quantity to meet human needs. One must be aware that technology has come to try to make up for this difference. Precision agriculture comes to optimize the use of agricultural inputs, as well as to reduce the indiscriminate use of nutrients from natural resources, so that environmental and economic issues are preserved, and that profitability and agricultural production increase with the implementation of the agriculture, replacing or not with the conventional farming method. The objective of this study was to evaluate the difference in production costs between conventional agriculture, which uses inputs at fixed rates and precision agriculture that uses inputs at variable rates. For this, data were used to introduce the production methods and data previously collected in the properties located in the municipality of Ourizona, North of Paraná. The work goes from soil analyzes, area history in relation to fertility, grain yield per hectare of soybean and corn from the areas and the amount spent on inputs (fertilizers, seeds and pesticides). It is concluded that for the two methods presented, the conventional farming method has a small economic advantage, totaling R$ 1,078.72.