Economic analysis of the finishing of lambs under confinement conditions using licuri cake ( Syagrus coronata Mart. Becc.)

Jonival Barreto Costa,Ronaldo Lopes Oliveira,Rebeca Dantas Xavier Ribeiro,Ossival Lolato Ribeiro,Thiago Vinicius Costa Nascimento,Luis Fernando Batista Pinto,Thadeu Mariniello Silva

doi:10.1590/s1519-9940200252019

Abstract

SUMMARY The present study endeavors to determine the impact of the inclusion of licuri tart in the diet of finishing lambs, Santa Inês mestizos, by evaluating the economic parameters. For this purpose, a total of 44 lambs, including both uncastrated as well as vaccinated and wormed lambs, with an average age of six months and a mean body weight of 21.2 kg ± 2.7 kg, were employed. Initially, the lambs were fed on the diet which consisted of 40% Tifton-85 hay and 60% of a concentrated mixture, mainly composed of ground corn grain, soybean meal, mineral premix, being further followed by the inclusion of the licuri cake at four different levels (a) 0.0, (b) 8.0,(c) 16.0, and (d) 24% with respect to the dry matter. Principally, the soybean meal and milled corn were replaced by the licuri cake with these levels, thereby constituting four treatments and 11 replicates (11 lambs per treatment) in a completely randomized design. Further, for subjecting the lambs to the above mentioned four different levels of treatment, the lambs were confined for 70 days. The analysis of various economic parameters revealed that upon including the licuri cake up to the level of 24%, the operation cost decreases, which in turn results in higher profitability. However, its cost at the time of use will eventually determine its use for feeding lambs, because of the possible price variations of the ingredients used to formulate the diets along with the model of production of the rural property.

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The rising demand, tradition, the possibility of integration with other activities, as well as access to market niches and the aggregation of value have become the main structuring points due to which the interest in the sheep production chain has grown tremendously (Viana et al, 2013)
Taking into consideration the evidenced costs, one can observe that upon replacing the soybean meal and grounded corn grain with the licuri cake in the sheep diet, the concentrate's share of feed costs decreased. This decrease can be explicated by the lower acquisition cost per kg of DM of the licuri cake(R$ 0.77), in comparison to the soybean meal (R$ 1.35), even with the purchase price of ground corn being R$ 0.74/kg MS
The analysis has revealed that the operational cost, for the aspects already mentioned, decreases by 56.12% for the diet with the highest level of inclusion of licuri cake, in comparison to the diet without the inclusion of licuri cake

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Introduction

The rising demand, tradition, the possibility of integration with other activities, as well as access to market niches and the aggregation of value have become the main structuring points due to which the interest in the sheep production chain has grown tremendously (Viana et al, 2013) These aspects are visible due to the acceleration in search of the rural producers for technological alternatives, which have the capability to improve the productivity and the quality of the herds so as to meet this internal demand. Santos et al (2009) have drawn attention towards the necessity of a good cost analysis system, as a basic and essential tool, required for the administration of any enterprise, especially in agribusiness. The present work makes an attempt to evaluate the effects of the inclusion of licuri cake on lambs in finishing from the perspective of economic analysis

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