Efeitos da gestão no desempenho econômico e ambiental da pecuária de corte no Cerrado goiano

Abstract

The lack of application of management methods in the productive activities of rural properties results in a limitation for producers to continue to produce with economic and environmental sustainability. Well managed and managed agricultural activities have the role of maximizing the profitability of the activity and minimizing environmental impacts. The management of the rural property is necessary to subsidize the permanence of the activity in the agricultural market, which represents the guarantee of producing food, using the strategy of sustainable competitive advantage. The objective of this work is to analyze the effects of management on the economic and environmental performance of rural properties in the micro-region of Pires do Rio-Goiás. This research is of an applied nature, with a qualitative-quantitative and descriptive approach, with artificial participant observation. It is also documentary, since it used secondary data from the SENAR+ Project, from a group of 23 rural properties that joined the Technical Assistance project dedicated to beef cattle, as well as the IBGE database (Censo Agropecuário, 2017). Data on the quality of pastures and the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) were compared to verify the preservation of the legal reserve and Permanent Preservation Area (APP) before and during the execution of the project, via remote sensing evaluation with Planet images, which guarantees 5m accuracy using Google Earth Engine and QGIS. It was identified the existence of gaps regarding the management of productive activities, the resistance of the producers to the new production techniques and the remote sensing allowed to evidence changes in the quality of the pastures and the state of preservation of the legal reserves and APP, which are not preserved in its entirety, which generates inconsistencies about the environmental sustainability of these activities. It is concluded that pastures considered to be in a medium degradation stage do not generate profitability for producers.