Economic gains from crop-livestock integration in relation to conventional systems
Título del documento: Economic gains from crop-livestock integration in relation to conventional systems
Revista: Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000445447
ISSN: 1516-3598
Autores: 1
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Instituciones: 1Universidade de Sao Paulo, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinaria e Zootecnia, Pirassununga, Sao Paulo. Brasil
2Agencia Paulista de Tecnologia dos Agronegocios, Centro de Pesquisa de Bovinos de Corte, Sertaozinho, Sao Paulo. Brasil
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Volumen: 49
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Analítico, descriptivo
Resumen en inglés The objective with this study was to calculate the total cost of maize production and beef cattle in permanent pasture activities in separate production systems (conventional) and integrated systems (maize production plus beef cattle), as well as to verify economic gains explained by the economy of scope. The first step for the development of the research was to obtain field experimental data. Six experimental treatments were studied: corn grain production, beef cattle in permanent pasture, and four integrated systems based on different crop and pasture sowings. The second step consisted in the collection, calculation, and allocation of variable and fixed costs to estimate costs of production in the systems. The crop-livestock integration showed economic gains in relation to conventional systems, which can be explained by the dilution of fixed costs and the presence of shareable inputs, resulting in economy of scope. It was also possible to demonstrate that total unit costs of both crop and livestock were lower in crop-livestock integration, showing that integrated systems resulted in economic benefits as compared with conventional ones
Disciplinas: Medicina veterinaria y zootecnia
Palabras clave: Zootecnia,
Cultivos,
Ganadería,
Análisis económico,
Sistemas integrados,
Brasil
Keyword: Animal husbandry,
Crops,
Livestock,
Integrated systems,
Brazil,
Economic analysis
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