Análise de viabilidade econômica dos pequenos produtores de banana da Associação Acaraú Terra Sol no Agropolo do Baixo Acaraú, estado do Ceará

Abstract

Irrigation systems allied with other production factors brings guarantee of production and productivity, thus, supplying year round of quality banana with a reduced cost, a determinant factor when analyzing economic viability. Attached to such importance in the production of banana is found the innovative and unexplored field of this study. Thus, the objective of this study is to evaluate the economic viability of the banana production of small producers in the Agropolo do Baixo Acaraú, in the State of Ceará, given the importance of such fruit in the Brazilian, northeastern and cearense agricultural commercialization. For such task, using questionnaires, a socio-economic profile of the producers was traced, as also an estimation of revenue and costs were estimated, to determine the economic viability of the banana producers. At last, financial metric methods, such as, Benefit/Cost, Present Net Value, Internal Rate of Return and Sensibility Analysis were used to test the economic viability of the banana production. The results obtained accepts the hypothesis of economic viability of banana production in the Agropolo do Baixo Acaraú, only when revenue and cost suffer variations, which concludes that practices, mainly of collective purchases and sales, must be developed and implemented stimulating cost reduction and a consideral increase in revenue for the producers.