Avaliação do custo benefício de estocagem dos grãos de arroz visando identificar o período do ano com maior preço de venda

Abstract

This paper presents a study aiming to assess the cost of drying and storage of grains of rice, and identify, based on the past years in which months of the year focus on the higher prices to market the product in order guide and possibly benefit the producers of the Fourth Region Cologne / RS. It is noteworthy that the timing of marketing is one of the most important among the ones developed in agriculture. This is precisely the moment in which may be made the decision to continue or not the activity, by obtaining profit or loss. The research is based on literature review and survey data. A comparative of costs of the drying and storage alternatives was done through the confrontation of the costs of each option: store in masonry silo itself or deposit in Cooperatives in the region until the sale. Thus, it is observed that farmers who own their silo dryers have prospects of higher returns when compared with those who rely on outsourcing for storage and drying their produce. It was also identified by analyzing the behavior of the price of grains of rice over the past eighteen years, the existence of cycles of recovery that probably will be repeated for the next crops.