Cenário atual do parque de máquinas agrícolas: estudo de caso no sudoeste do Paraná

Abstract

With the increase in the people’s purchase power, not only in the cities, but also in the countryside, the producer’s trend to do improvements on their ownerships, usually begin with the service’s tehnification, improving the quality and reducing the work to accomplish the daily activities. The improvements present, normally are associated to the agricultural machineries and implements’ purchase, where high money are fixed by the producer, therefore, the financial planning is the extreme importance for the equipment to be viable and positive financial returns. Considering that in the Parana’s southwest the most ownerships are small, this paper`s objective is doing the data collections about agricultural machineries, primarily seeders, tractors, harvesters and sprayers. This research’s objectives get agricultural machineries and implement’s types, sizes and value, correlating with the sizes and income of the studies ownerships, offering support to future researches and upgrading in this study’s line. At the end of the work it was found that the sizes of machines and implements vary according to the extents of properties, and the amount and value thereof, which are greater in the large research facilities, and smaller in small. A negative factor presented by the survey is the low service with the machinery by small and medium-sized properties, a factor which increases the equipment’s downtime and reduces the potential profits.