Verificação dos tratos culturais para a produção de Macaxeira VAR. Recife e o retorno financeiro do investimento em campos de produção na Aldeia Lama, Cabrobó Pernambuco

Abstract

Macaxeira is one of the most cultivated crops in Brazil and in the world, it has characteristics that give it a good ease of management, being very resistant to the attack of pests and phytopathological agents. Also not very demanding in relation to the supply of water and high soil fertility rates, all these characteristics make this crop considered one of the most rustic agricultural crops cultivated for food purposes. Knowing how to manage an agricultural crop is not the only factor of importance for success in the agricultural market, another factor that should be taken into account by producers is the issue of production costs, because if there is an investment expected to be profit Satisfactory. The objective was to analyze the production costs and what management adopted in the production process of Macaxeira var. Recife, in Aldeia Lama, Cabrobó-PE. For this purpose, visits were made to the production fields where the stages of preparation, planting, management of infestants, management of insect pests, disease management, harvesting and marketing were carried out. A questionnaire was also applied to the producers, the questionnaire was applied individually, and thus it was possible to carry out a concrete survey of all the costs that had been made from soil till harvest. It is concluded that the cultivation of macaxeira (Manihot Esculenta Crantz var. Recife) in the Aldeia Lama community is a financially viable alternative because it provides good profit margin, even with low technological level of management, productions can be obtained Acceptable. Another important fact is production costs will always vary according to several aspects such as: amount of labor used for planting, infestant plants present on site, amount of labor used in the harvest.