Indicadores econômicos e técnicos de uma propriedade leiteira na Paraíba

Abstract

The objective of this study was to perform an analysis of the technical indicators: milk / cows lactation, milk by labor per day (milk /OM/d); milk / area / month (Y/y/m) and milk / area / year (Y/y/y) and economic and financial indicators broken down by revenue: milk sales, animal sales and cheese sales and expenditure: fuel, concentrates and salt, electricity, calf milk (replacement), maintenance and equipment maintenance, fixed labor, consumables, pasture (urea application), reproduction (fixed-time artificial insemination technology) ), health and medicines, telephone, internet, roughage, family labor, estate replacement and investment for milk production with the composition of its herd of 28 crossbred Holstein and Jersey cows, averaging three to six years old, owned by Sítio Flores, located in the municipality of Areia, Paraíba, with an area of 20 hectares. Data were collected through technical visits and documents provided by the owner during the months of January to July 2019. Analyzing the economic data of the months of study, it is observed that the property presented the positive gross margin, being its highest value in the period. March with R $ 4,908.00, confirming that sales of milk, animals and cheese paid the expenses. This result shows that the activity is profitable in the short term, covering its direct costs, suggesting the availability of income after the payment of all operating costs. As for the total operating cost, which includes family labor and equity and investment replacement (depreciation), along with monthly property expenses, it can be seen that the results for february, april, may and july show that the total revenue (milk sales, animal sales and other sales) does not cover all expenses, leaving the producer with a negative balance of R$ 470.00; R$ 611.00; R$ 778.00 and R$ 665.00 reais respectively from these months. In this sense, it is important to highlight the importance of adopting productive and administrative management strategies that can reduce costs.