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| Author(s): |
Abilio Donizetti de Morais Filho
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Piracicaba. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALA/BC) |
| Defense date: | 2006-03-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Fernando Seixas;
Paulo Torres Fenner;
Luiz Carlos Estraviz Rodriguez
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| Advisor: | Fernando Seixas |
| Abstract | |
Due to wood increasing demand and a necessity of cost reduction, the forestry operations are being more mechanized. Most of the available machines are industrialized in North America and Scandinavia with a hight cost of investment. However, the forest contractors in Brazil are working with an old technology, mainly adapted agricultural tractors and precarious conditions of work. The objective of this study was to describe the financial conditions of forestry contractors, approaching the life quality aspects, working questions, the equipment techniques conditions, operational costs and, finally, economic credit to invest in technology. Thirty companies in the forest segment had been analyzed, being five in detailed form. Three companies have been working with harvesting, planting, forest management and wood transportation; three with harvesting, planting and forest management; seven with harvesting and wood transportation; seven with harvesting only; six with wood transportation; two with planting and forest management; and two more with support services, with an annual income between US$ 40,000.00 and US$ 20,000,000.00 with 36,6% of you present them presenting an average invoicing between US$ 1,000,000.00 and 2,000,000.00. The annual income enters the five analyzed companies varied between US$ 400,000.00 and US$ 1,720,000.00 with a average of US$ 950,000.00. The employees number varied between 33 and 181 and the companies were classified as: one small, two averages and two big. The main difficulties to investment in a new generation machines are high financial tax, more than 12% a year, and a lack of long term contracts to guaranty there payment capability. During the execution of this work it was observed that the contractors do not include in the table of costs the capital remuneration and a correct depreciation. Currently, the machines average ages are superior to 10 years. The final results concluded that the costs are above of the paid values for the services when computed the depreciation and the capital remuneration, with negative results in financial analyzes in three companies. The forestry contractors are not following the technological evolution. Finally, it was observed that mechanization increased the quality of life, however, annual per capita income is around US$ 2,112.00, approximately 39% smaller than the average Brazilian population. (AU) | |