Effect of workforce diversity on the cost-effectiveness of milk production systems participating in the “full bucket” program

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Marcos Aurelio
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Moraes, Flavio de, Carvalho, Francisval Melo, Bruhn, Fabio Raphael Pascotti, Lima, Andre Luis Ribeiro, Reis, Eduardo Mitke Brandão
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Semina. Ciências Agrárias (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/semagrarias/article/view/32000
• topic: Dairy cattle; Production cost; Management; Family workforce.; Bovinocultura de leite; Custo de produção; Gerenciamento; Mão de obra familiar.

This study aimed to analyze the effect of each workforce type on the cost-effectiveness of 20 dairy farms participating in the “Full Bucket” program, from January to December 2011, in the State of Rio de Janeiro. A stepwise multiple linear regression was used to identify the production cost components that most affected net margin, profitability, and cost-effectiveness. Workforce type influenced both profitability and cost-effectiveness, as well as total production cost. Economic analysis showed that farms with a hired workforce had the lowest total unit costs and a positive result. This way, the activity is able to produce in the long term and farmers are capitalizing. The farms that adopted mixed and family workforce had a positive net margin and a negative result, obtaining conditions to produce in the medium term. The highest representativeness on the items of effective operating cost in the family workforce stratum, in a descending order, were food, miscellaneous expenses, and energy. The most representative items in the mixed and hired workforce strata were food, workforce, and miscellaneous expenses.