The objective of this paper is to analyze the economic viability of wheat production in the states of Rio Grande do Sul (RS) and Paraná (PR), with and without risk conditions. The applied methodology includes the indicators of economic viability Benefit-Cost, Net Present Value, Internal Rate of...

This paper aims to check whether there is a relationship between wholesale chicken prices in the states of Paraná and São Paulo in the period on 01/1995 to 12/2007. Was used the model Vector Autoregressive (VAR) for realization of causality test, forecast error variance decomposition and...

The objective of this article was to evaluate the yield and risk in the production and storage of the Arabian coffee. Cash flows are elaborated for coffee production in two productive systems, one with low productivity and other with high productivity. Twelve different scenarios are simulated,...

The universities main contributions to the development of Brazilian agribusiness are human capital formation and technology generation. High-quality professionals trained in universities are allocated to research, teaching, extension and as managers in the various links of the agribusiness...

The objective of this paper is to determine the long-term effects of rural credit on agricultural production, trade and competitiveness (through prices) in the Brazilian regions. The simulations were performed applying the General Equilibrium Analysis Project of the Brazilian Economy (PAEG). The...

It is intended to verify the relations between input and products concerning to replaceability or complementarity, as well as the impacts of monthly variations on product prices (milk and meat) and input (fuels, work, concentrate) in the production system in Brazil that possess cows of 2.000 to...

The objective of this study was to analyze the aggregate agriculture production function for the state of Minas Gerais. The analysis was accomplished in two phases. First, we separate the municipalities in terms of the productive efficiency, using the non-parametric approach of data envelopment...