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Costos de Transacción y de Producción en Explotaciones Bovinas de la VII Región del Maule

2012; Volume: 24; Linguagem: Inglês

10.5354/0719-5273.2009.18278

0719-5273

T Luís Sáez, Marisol García, Mario Maino, N Michel Leporati,

Logistics and Transportation Systems

The objective of this study was to determine the transaction and total cost at the beef cattle farms from Region Maule. The questionary was applied to 154 farmers with calf-beef cow system located at Curico, Talca, Parral, Longavi, Linares, Curepto, San Clemente and San Javier in April of 2008, considering aspects such us: human resources, infraestructure, farm resources, productive management, technical assistanship and trading. A conglomerated analisys was applied, with the idea to generate homogenized groups, were the farmers became distributed in 3 groups: Group 1 called beef-farmers because were totally dedicated to the cattle activity; the Group 2 dedicated bellow 50% to beef cattle and the Group 3 having simmilar proportions of beff cattle and cereal crops. The total cost of production for kg of live weight was $301 for Group 1, $250 for Group 2 and $337 for Group 3. The transactional costs represented 29% and the indirect costs only 12% of the total costs.