Otimização da renda das atividades produtivas de uma propriedade rural familiar

Abstract

This work seeks to identify and to analyze the agricultural activities which optimize income in a rural family property using linear programming, called software Lindo, considering limits or restrictions of size, labor and financial resources. The methodology included the IBGE data analysis, among other official data sources to define the main agricultural activities of the region, including forest production or reforestation activities, fruits and vegetables, characterized as optimization model. Six scenarios were considered in the model, varying the amount of labor, as a restriction in each scenario. The results showed that, regardless of the amount of labor used, garlic is the main activity of the model, being cultivated in all scenarios, with demand of approximately 70% of all labor. Another clear point of the result in the optimization model is that in the scenarios with greater availability of labor the model opt for more intensive activities, this happens in the scenarios 04, 05 and 06, from the use of four people or above , during the year, with peach and strawberry cultivation. In contrast, with less labor availability, as in scenarios 01, 02 and 03, it opts for the use of most of the area with less labor-intensive activities, such as soybeans with maize (crop and mini crop) and soybean (crop and mini crop). Although the size of the property is a limiting factor, with the use of a larger number of people, that is, of labor, income generation is possible and feasible, respecting the choice of activities that compensate for its use.