Subsidios ao processo de decisão um estudo de caso em uma empresa agrícola na região do Triangulo e Alto Paranaíba, MG

Abstract

This paper was a case study in farm enterprise in Minas Gerais State, Brasil. Many different combinations of activities that are explored or not in the farm were studied analysing the effect of such combinations on the risk and income expected. Linear programming and MOTAD were utilized. It was found lower levei of rent for rice cropping and high income for coífee cropping. The more risky activities were coffee and soybean. An efficient frontier were created. In this frontier, beef cattle prevailed at lower income levels and coffee at higher levels. It was found idleness for tractors and harvesters in the farm. The possibility of reducing the expected risk was pointed out by means of changing the crop rotation envolving corn and soybean. It was examined the possibility of an increasing in the farm income levei by means of addition on coffee area besides changing the crop rotation.