VIABILIDADE FINANCEIRA DO PIVÔ CENTRAL NO CULTIVO DA CANADE-AÇÚCAR NO SUDOESTE GOIANO

Abstract

In Brazil, sugarcane is considered a crop of great productive and socioeconomic importance, with growing areas of crop and production volume. Due to these variables irrigation mechanisms are introduced in the planting process, which can present added value to the product, as well as to the production system and the final product, being irrigation necessary due to the water deficit that occurs in the planting area. Some literature emphasizes that irrigated sugar cane management is economically unfeasible. Thus, it is natural that the costs of the central pivot irrigation system and the analysis of the financial viability of the investments in this process are of great importance for maintaining the crop quality and the production process. In view of this contradiction, the objective of this work is to develop the analysis of the costs and financial viability of the sugarcane irrigation system by central pivot at the Raízen Sugar Cane Company in Jataí GO, as well as to identify the expected benefits of an investment project in implantation of the central pivot irrigation process. The indicators that will be used in the work calculations are: a) Net Present Value (NPV), b) Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and c) Payback discounted (PD). The indicators were applied during six cuts, with the results obtained showing the opposite of what is assumed, that is, the cultivation of sugar cane irrigated by central pivot is economically feasible, presenting a positive NPV, a superior IRR and a positive Payback with respect to the time of return of the initial investment.