PRINCIPAIS DIFICULDADES DOS PRODUTORES RURAIS DE ITUIUTABA-MG E REGIÃO, ACERCA DOS CUSTOS QUE ENVOLVEM A PECUÁRIA DE LEITE EM SUA PROPRIEDADE

Abstract

The management of dairy cattle is extremely important for the maintenance of rural producers in this market which is constantly more competitive. From this point of view, the objective of this study is to understand the difficulties of rural producers regarding costs of dairy cattle on their properties where, initially, a bibliographic research was carried out aiming at pointing out concepts of the cost of production in the cattle, after which, descriptive research was carried out by means of a questionnaire applied to 28 rural producers of the region. It was found that most participating farmers consider the administration of milk producing costs very important, but due to lack of knowledge and means of management, most of them do not control costs or do not even have any means of cost control concerning the production of milk on their property.