Animal nutrition subsystem analysis of milk production in the cooperative Agrária e de Cafeicultores da região de Tupi paulista (Cacretupi) - SP

• Grant number: 16/14353-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2017
• End date: February 28, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Economics - Agrarian and Natural Resource Economics
• Principal Investigator: Elaine Mendonça Bernardes
• Grantee: Thayna Pereira Garcia
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Tecnológicas. Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Dracena. Dracena , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The joint performance of producers in the organizational system is important to acquire competitive advantages to cooperatives and raise chances of economic sustainability. In the present study the animal nutrition for milk production will be analyzed in a system approach considering a sustainable context in a broader sense. Technical coefficients are crucial for this analysis. In studies on economic and social sustainability, the inclusion of capital stocks has already been highlighted. In studies of animal production subject, there is a lack of discussion of such stocks, mainly for family farms. Then, it is important to study the animal nutrition subsystem in rural cooperatives. Human capital and social capital will be highlighted in the present study that intend to: (a) to obtain technical coefficients of production of the producers in the Cacretupi; (b) to identify those interested in changing technical coefficients relating to the nutrition of herds that have, particularly through better utilization of pastures; (c) to describe their subsystems of nutrition; (d) to identify producers who consume more inputs acquired in the market; (e) to obtain data on training of manpower among the producers, and (f) to identify the producers that more participate in the Cacretupi. The work will contribute for obtaining emergy indices that are being calculated in a broader project whose results will be improved by the present proposal. Professionals of the rural extension services and producers will receive the results through folders, electronic media and meetings to farmers. (AU)