Author(s)

Eriton Luiz Mainardes, Luiz Cláudio Garcia^*, Pedro Henrique Weirich Neto, Carlos Hugo Rocha, Thiago Inagaki, Natali Maidl de Souza, Guilherme Pedrollo Mazer, Jaime Alberti Gomes, Ivan Cesar Furmann Moura, Éverson Pedro Zeny

State University of Ponta Grossa, Campus Uvaranas, Ponta Grossa, Brasil.

This study aimed to analyze the economic feasibility of canola production (Brassica napus var oleifera) for the region Campos Gerais-PR. We interviewed eight producers, and used information from four of them for economic analysis of agricultural crops in 2012, 2013 and 2014. The variables analyzed were: grain production cost, economical analysis (hurdle rate, net present value, internal rate of return, payback, lucratively index, profitability index and sensitivity analysis) and vegetable oil production costs. We compared the performance of canola, wheat (Triticum aestivum)—as the main crop in the autumn/winter—and soybean (Glycine max)—by liquidity in the world market. It was concluded that although the economic analysis indicates superior results of canola production compared to the wheat crop and vegetable oil production is more attractive financially than soybean, but the culture of canola is still insignificant in the region of Campos Gerais (PR). The producers interviewed pointed to limit the expansion of culture financing the limited farming, production technology in consolidation, the need for machine adjustments and canola be host of the white mold disease (Sclerotinia sclerotiorun).

Brassica napus, Production Systems, Profitability

Mainardes, E.L., Garcia, L.C., Weirich Neto, P.H., Rocha, C.H., Inagaki, T., de Souza, N.M., Mazer, G.P., Gomes, J.A., Moura, I.C.F. and Zeny, É.P. (2018) Economic Feasibility of Canola Production in the Region of Campos Gerais, Paraná, Brazil. American Journal of Plant Sciences, 9, 958-965. doi: 10.4236/ajps.2018.95073.