Análise econômica do uso de fertilizantes em milho, com referência às políticas do polocentro

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Book Synopsis Análise econômica do uso de fertilizantes em milho, com referência às políticas do polocentro by : R. de C. M. T. VIEIRA

Download or read book Análise econômica do uso de fertilizantes em milho, com referência às políticas do polocentro written by R. de C. M. T. VIEIRA and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A presente pesquisa foi inspirada nas determinacoes do POLOCENTRO com relacao aos incentivos concedidos aos produtres da regiao para aquisicao de fertilizantes. O enfoque basico foi encontrar uma alternativa que justificasse o esquema pelo programa. Na concepcao inicial do trabalho, admitiu-se que o ressarcimento dos emprestimos feitos pelos produtores da regiao iria necessariamente depender do efeito residual da adubacao. Em funcao disto, o estudo examinou os efeitos em anos subsequentes da aplicacao do adubo em cada periodo produtivo. Para analisar estes efeitos intertemporais de adubacao utilizou-se um modelo proposto por STAUBER E BURT. Os dados usados foram obtidos de um experimento implantado num local de atuacao do POLOCENTRO, instalado na Unidade Experimental de Patos de Minas - MG, com a cultura do milho. O ensaio considerou os efeitos de 4 aplicacoes de fertilizantes, 4 variedades e 3 niveis de populacao de plantas. Encarando o uso de fertilizantes como uma mudanca tecnologica necessaria, os riscos envolvidos na alternativa passam a ser o elemento limitante na decisao de adotar a inovacao. Desta forma, analizou os tratamentos do experimento sob o ponto de vista de eficiencia contra riscos e incertezas. Aqui utilizou-se o modelo analitico proposto por ANDERSON. Com relacao ao efeito residual, os resultados indicaram que nem sucesso dos agricultores, nem o do programa de fertilizacao. Esta constatacao fez com que as decisoes relacionadas com ao assunto fossem determinadas a partir de relações contemporaneas. Calcularam-se os niveis de uso dos diversos fatores, bem como as combinacoes otimas de fertilizantes e populacao de plantas consideradas para asa diversas variedades testadas. Analises desta natureza mostraram possibilidades de resposta que poderiam tornar o resgate do emprestimo independente do efeito residual, especialmente quando se consideramos subsidios concedidos ao processo. Foram calculadas as taxas internas de retorno nas respectivas combinacoes otimas, o que indicou que, quando os subsidios não foram concedidos, as taxas de retornos foram baixas, não se podendo garantir que cobririam as despesas adicionais geradas pela utilizacao de fertilizantes. Nestes termos os subsidios aos fertilizantes se tornam imprecindiveis tanto ao aumento da populacao quanto a incorporacao dos recursos da regiao Centro-Oeste a agricultura brasileira. Com a concessao dos subsidios, os niveis de retorno ao fertilizante tem possibilidades de crescer substancialmente, ficando sempre acima de 50%, indicando que os custos de fertilizacao podem ser ressarcidos pelos retornos auferidos no ano do emprestimo. A variedade IAC Hmd 7974 mostrou-se mais promissora que as demais para condicoes semelhantes as do experimento analisado, apresentando maiores rendimentos. Em termos de protecao contra riscos, os resultados indicam que, dos tratamentos analisados, o mais eficiente foi aquele que envolveu a variedade Maya X, nivel de adubacao igual a 195 Kg/ há de NPK de nivel de populacao de 60 mil plantas/ha.

Risk-efficient Fertilizer Rates

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Total Pages : 340 pages
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Book Synopsis Risk-efficient Fertilizer Rates by : Celso Roberto Crocomo

Download or read book Risk-efficient Fertilizer Rates written by Celso Roberto Crocomo and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In agriculture, uncertainty permeates almost all types of decisions, a fact that greatly complicates the process by which choices are made. This study develops a method that combines fertilization-response data with preferences of decision makers, to help research and extension workers improve their fertilizer-application recommendations. To prescribe preferred fertilizer practices tailored to the risk preferences of individual decision makers, this study adopted two objectives: (1) to estimate risk aversion coefficients for corn farmers in the Cerrado region of Brazil and to relate them to socio-economic variables, and (2) to measure how farmers' attitudes toward risk influence their adoption of alternative corn-production techniques. To achieve the first objective, regression and discriminant analyses were employed to relate the measures of absolute risk-aversion coefficients, measured for 114 farmers in the Cerrado region, to selected socioeconomic variables, and to classify the farmers into different groups, based on their attitudes toward risk. The results showed that there seems to be a strong relationship between risk attitudes and socioeconomic variables such as age, educational level, family size, size of farm, income, and sources of information, and that different tenure arrangements may reveal different attitudes toward risk. A significant percentage of the individuals studied displayed risk preferences at least for the situation analyzed. To achieve the second objective, physical relationships, including the corn-response production function and the phosphorus carry-over fuction, were analyzed together with randomly generated weather patterns. A Monte Carlo program then was used to construct a large number of strategies that were evaluated by choice criterion stochastic dominance with respect to a function. This criterion provided sets of efficient choices for each class of decision makers. Model results indicated that the introduction of farmers' preferences in the form of risk-aversion measures has an important influence on decision-making choices. Highly risk-averse farmers, for example, tend to make use of strategies that produce, in general, lower expected returns and lower probability of losses. This indicates that one should recommend strategies efficiently tailored to each class of decision makers.

Agrindex

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Total Pages : 742 pages
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Sugarcane Biofuels

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ISBN 13 : 3030185974
Total Pages : 472 pages
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Book Synopsis Sugarcane Biofuels by : Muhammad Tahir Khan

Download or read book Sugarcane Biofuels written by Muhammad Tahir Khan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-29 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sugarcane exhibits all the major characteristics of a promising bioenergy crop including high biomass yield, C4 photosynthetic system, perennial nature, and ratooning ability. Being the largest agricultural commodity of the world with respect to total production, sugarcane biomass is abundantly available. Brazil has already become a sugarcane biofuels centered economy while Thailand, Colombia, and South Africa are also significantly exploiting this energy source. Other major cane producers include India, China, Pakistan, Mexico, Australia, Indonesia, and the United States. It has been projected that sugarcane biofuels will be playing extremely important role in world’s energy matrix in recent future. This book analyzes the significance, applications, achievements, and future avenues of biofuels and bioenergy production from sugarcane, in top cane growing countries around the globe. Moreover, we also evaluate the barriers and areas of improvement for targeting efficient, sustainable, and cost-effective biofuels from sugarcane to meet the world’s energy needs and combat the climate change.