Abstract

ENCISO CANO, Víctor Ramón; BENITEZ MORAN, Wilma  and  PENA CARDOZO, Ángel Ramón. The dilemma between own or rented machinery: the case of a modal farm in Northern Alto Paraná-Paraguay. Investig. Agrar. [online]. 2023, vol.25, n.1, pp.49-56. ISSN 2305-0683.  https://doi.org/10.18004/investig.agrar.2023.junio.2501723.

In Paraguay, there are few economic and financial studies, of public access, related to agricultural machinery as well as its impact on the results of a farm, which can be characterized as a documentary gap. For this reason, queries, from farmers or any other, such as: is it profitable to have your own machines? or, from what area is it profitable to have your own machines? There are no documented answers whose methodologies can be replicated. Faced with this situation, this work proposed to contribute to reducing the documentary gap on the subject. Its general objective was to determine the effect of the purchase of agricultural machinery (seeder, sprayer, and harvester) on the profitability of an agricultural farm. In order to achieve the indicated objective, a case study was used. An economic analysis of a modal farm in the northern region of Alto Paraná was carried out with the following indicators: gross margin, operating result, net income, capital income, profitability, and liquid profit. Three scenarios were built for the analysis: (i) baseline, (ii) the machinery provides services in the modal farm at cost price and the surplus was sold at market prices to third parties, and (iii) all services (finca modal and third parties) were sold at prices that include a profit margin. It was concluded that the provision of services with its own machines increases the profitability of the farm above the baseline.

Keywords : agricultural machinery; economic analysis; modal farm.

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