Caracterização e alternativas para implantação de um aviário caipira na Amazônia

Abstract

According to ABPA, despite the many challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic brought, Brazil remained the largest exporter and third largest producer of chicken meat in the world (ABPA, 2021). Silva (2016) portrays that the growing change in the consumer market makes the demand for healthier and ecologically adequate foods increase every year, including chickens that grow more naturally. In this way, possibilities arise for the creation of free- range chicken. The alternative breeding of free-range birds is well practiced by small producers, as it is a way of adding value generated in small properties, providing entry into the poultry activity, with much smaller initial investments and few risks, being a viable and profitable activity. In view of this, the objective of this work is to demonstrate the economic feasibility of implementing a country aviary with alternative materials, found in the properties of family farmers in the Amazon region. Two budget tables were made for the construction of a 50 m2 aviary, one with the purchase of all materials in construction houses, and another using alternative materials, the economy of the second in relation to the first was R$11842,00 or 62,5%, which is equivalent to almost 10 minimum wages. In addition to the economic explanation of the tables, the work presents options for alternative materials that can be found on the property for the construction of the aviary, presenting the profit of each one in relation to construction with conventional materials, in addition to their advantages and disadvantages.