Economical results of MILK system production AT the municipal district of Itutinga - MG

Abstract

It was aimed to study the return of a milk-production system situated in the town of Itutinga – MG, identify the components which exercised the greatest influence upon the final costs of the operation and the proportion of each of them related to the total income. The data were colected from January of 2007 and December of 2008. The data processing and the return analysis were performed by the software Cu$to Bovino Leite®, considerating gross margin, net margin and result (profit or loss) as economic efficiency indicators. The farm presented, per kg of milk, positive gross margin of US$ 0.03, negative net margin of US$ 0.01 and loss of US$ 0.15, its having, therefore, negative return of 9.29%. It follows that, under these conditions the business will survive only in the short run. With the exploitation of the production system, the business undergoes economic losses leading the dairy farmer to decapitilization.

Keywords

• bovinocultura de leite
• custo de produção
• rentabilidade