AVALIAÇÃO ECONÔMICA DAS PRÁTICAS AGRÍCOLAS: UM ESTUDO COMPARATIVO DE CUSTOS NA AGRICULTURA REGENERATIVA E TRADICIONAL NO CERRADO

Abstract

In a global context, the use of chemical inputs has been increasingly discriminated. Regenerative agriculture, with the advent of bio-inputs, emerges as the third great agricultural revolution, enabling rural producers to reduce the synthetic products use, in many cases exhaustible, which have great polluting potential. Consequently, the lower dependence on these inputs, in the national scenario, also reduces their imports, given that great part of the raw materials used to compose these items have foreign origins. In addition to the benefits mentioned, this new way of farming has also proven to be a great tool for reducing production costs, without reducing productivity, further strengthening the pillars of agricultural sustainability. Given the relevance of monitoring costs within the agricultural production process with the aim of achieving greater effectiveness in decisions, highlighting that the farmer has no control over prices when purchasing inputs or selling its production, the products, the respective quantities applied, operations and financial data relating to the 2022/2023 harvest on two neighboring properties in the Rio Verde region – GO were collected, producing soybeans (first harvest) and corn (second harvest). To this end, when collecting data, semi-structured interviews were carried out directly with rural producers and the data was processed using Excel spreadsheets, based on Conab, IFAG and IEA methodologies. In view of this, the present work found, through a financial comparison between the production system using the traditional and the regenerative system, that the system option that uses biological inputs for production was more financially profitable in the agricultural year studied, thus emerging as a potential technology for agriculture, however not universally suitable for all rural producers given the rigor required throughout the processes and practices necessary for its use.