Relatório de estágio de zootecnia realizado na Embrapa agroindústria tropical

Abstract

The Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (Embrapa) [Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation] was established on April 26, 1973 and is under the Ministério da Agricultura, Pecuária e Abastecimento (MAPA) [Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply]. Since its inception, a challenge was assumed: develop with partners from the Sistema Nacional de Pesquisa Agropecuária (NARS) [National Agricultural Research System], a genuinely Brazilian model of agriculture and tropical livestock, overcoming the barriers that limited the8 production of food, fibre and energy in our country. On June 2, 2011, the Federal Government has launched by the Decree No. 7492, the Plano Brasil Sem Miséria (BSM) [Brazil Without Poverty Plan] with the aim of overcoming extreme poverty by the end of 2014. The Plan is organized into three areas: income guarantee for immediate relief of extreme poverty; access to public services to improve education conditions, health and families' citizenship; and a third one for productive inclusion, to increase the capacity and opportunities of work and income generation among the poorest rural families and cities. Among the proposals for technologies that are under the focus of the project, the breeding of free-range chicken emerges as one of the most demanded proposals by beneficiaries of the territory of the Alto Oeste Potiguar, reaching about 50% of the 880 families participating in the Plan, according to the mapping conducted by Embrapa prior to the execution of the BSM, near the territory of Alto Oeste Potiguar (AOP) - RN. The investment analysis is essential for several reasons, being the main one the importance of conducting an economic planning before technological implementation, because, only by an economic analysis, is possible visualise the actual potential return on investment in question and, therefore, decide if the assumptions enable the project execution. Therefore, the present report focuses the capacity for evaluation of economic gains of the families from AOP region included in the BSM. Based on the project information, the operating income, profitability and Payback for economic analysis of the 100 birds of the free-range type production module was obtained by calculation. The operating income was R$ 182.77 with 4% of profitability in the first year and R$ 2,187.64 with profitability of 30% in the second year. The simple Payback was of 15 months with Pronaf interest rate and 17 months with interest rate of the common market. The investment is shown to be satisfactory under the conditions adopted by the Project. The study could be performed because of the capabilities of Embrapa to its employees that allowed a contribution of knowledge and information to do so.