Analysis of static and dynamic capacity in Paraná State, Brazil

Elizabeth Giron Cima,Weimar Freire Da Rocha Junior,Willyan Ronaldo Becker,Jerry Adriani Johann,Miguel Angel Uribe-Opazo

doi:10.4025/actasciagron.v42i1.44440

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Abstract

This study had two objectives - firstly, to analyze the total static and dynamic capacity of agricultural storage in Paraná State, Brazil and secondly, to verify if the storage followed the growth of grain production. The study was performed by mesoregion for the 2013/2014 and 2014/2015 crop years. The methodology used was descriptive from an agricultural database of the Secretariat of Agriculture and Supply (SEAB), of the National Register System of Storage Units (SICARM), interviews were also made with agroindustrial cooperatives and official agencies. It was identified that in Paraná State there is an insufficiency of 17.75% of total static capacity of warehouses to comply with the total grain production (soybean, 1st and 2nd corn crops, and wheat). The results showed that the total dynamic capacity of warehouses is sufficient in the mesoregions of Eastern Center, Southern Center, Northern Center, and Metropolitan. Therefore, storage units vary uniformly in most municipalities, not following the growth of total grain production in the state of Paraná.

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Agribusiness is the pillar of the Brazilian economy and follows a promising trajectory with a dynamic that has the potential to expand over time if some challenges are overcome, as is the case of a lack of adequate grain storage infrastructure, which may inhibit the virtuous cycle deficiencies in the logistics of storage, transport and commercialization of grains that is configured
According to the criteria adopted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the minimum acceptable in the static storage of a region must exceed its total production by 20%, so that there is no storage deficit in the event of overproduction
According to SEAB/DERAL (2015) Total Grain Production (TGP) presents a gradual increase in Paraná State, which varied from 34371 thousand tons to 36607 thousand tons

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Agribusiness is the pillar of the Brazilian economy and follows a promising trajectory with a dynamic that has the potential to expand over time if some challenges are overcome, as is the case of a lack of adequate grain storage infrastructure, which may inhibit the virtuous cycle deficiencies in the logistics of storage, transport and commercialization of grains that is configured. In this way, understanding how grain production and storage infrastructure behave, planning and developing strategies for storing the grain production is a relevant condition for producing food and generating food security qualitatively and quantitatively (Patino, Machado, Nascimento, & Alcantara, 2013). Despite the great advances in Brazilian agribusiness in the areas of production, management and technology, it faces the storage deficit, which considerably limits the efficiency of the system by raising processing costs (Cicolin & Oliveira, 2016)

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