Sistemas de suporte à decisão em atividades de produção agrícola

Abstract

The humanity advances push more and more the production of raw materials for many applications, foods mainly. The reduction of the available areas leads to the necessity of the productive efficiency increase. This paper intends to provide a new approach for agricultural management, which allows a better understanding of the productive variables, by searching solutions to productive and economic efficiency increase. The rural firm used in this case study was localized is in Maracaju, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Each unit was analyzed as an individual company, each one with its productive and economic indices. By congregating the historical production data and the farm maps, it was possible using a Geographic Information System (GIS) in the computational program platform IDRISI Andes to obtain the productivity and profitability maps of each management unit and crop. By using the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for efficiency measure contrast of the production areas, the intensity of the efficiency variability in the production field was observed, and made it possible to spot the targets, recesses and benchmarks in each area. This study made possible the identification of the most efficient units, giving the decision maker powerful tools to improve the efficiency in rural company.