Prognóstico do sistema de armazenamento de grãos no estado de Mato Grosso

Abstract

The State of Mato Grosso is considered the largest grain producer in Brazil, despite the Crisis of Covid-19, its production remained resilient and stable. As a consequence, it requires a large amount of storage units and the ability to store the grains. The lack of structure for grain storage, associated with a poor distribution of the storage units hinder the commercialization of the crop, harming the Brazilian agribusiness and causing injury to producers. In this sense, this work aimed to analyze the grain storage system in the State of Mato Grosso, identify the regions with storage deficit and surplus and obtain adequate values for static dimensioning of the storage units. Grain yield data were collected from the grain database Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) and the Secretary of State for Economic Development of Mato Grosso. Storage data were collected from the National Register of Supply Units, created and maintained by the National Supply Company, for the year 2020/21. The results showed that the State of Mato Grosso presents a worrying situation in relation to grain containment capacity, with an alarming deficit value of approximately 49%. It has been noted that there are few storage units in most microregions and the few that exist are poorly distributed. This fact indicates the need to expand static capacity, requiring an increase of more than 42 million tons in the storage capacity of microregions, in order to meet the recommendation of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Thus, it is necessary to conduct future studies that seek to analyze potential storage expansion sites, in order to overcome deficits in current static capacity.