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Abstract
The Brazilian agricultural sector, which is undergoing the settlement
of new production and trading patterns, faces the challenge of
growing in a competitive and sustainable fashion, in order to attend domestic
demand while acquiring and holding positions in foreign markets,
and by providing quality products and processes with sustainability and
competitive prices. To attend the new requirements form a more balanced
agriculture, both in ecological and economic terms, it is necessary a practice
of producing in a coherent fashion, with the sustainable development.
Thus, the purpose of this article is to analyze the profitability of the direct
planting system e production process which is more sustainable than the
conventional system, in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul using the Policy
Analysis Matrix (PAM) technique, which allows a more clear comparison
between the two systems. On the basis of the results obtained, one can
take note that the direct planting system displayed smaller costs and
larger profitability than the conventional system, in additions to being a
preserving system that reduces soil losses due to erosion.