Costs in the production of ornamental plants: an analysis of profitability, return and risk in the best mix composition

The article presents the costs of producing ornamental plants, comprising a study of the use of a property through the analysis of profitability, risk and return of the mix. Firstly, the historical overview of ornamental plants is made and the market, production is analyzed, and also the types of plants and the influence of the climate on cultivation are shown.It is an applied research, because it relates knowledge together with a problem in order to solve it and, at first, an exploration of documentary sources is made, being carried out in a small property located between Santa Catarina and Paraná, where the data were collected references for the development of research. Tools are used to support the research, which are the Multi-Index methodology and the Monte Carlo and Crystal Ball simulation. To generate the answer to the profitability of ornamental plants, several cost tables were developed culminating in a cash flow to determine the profitability of each type of plant developed in this article, which analyzed 8 types of ornamental plants. And in the end, from the profitability analysis it can be concluded that the biggest revenue was given in the types of plants in which cultivation takes place in 24 months: yucca rostrata, boxwood, formio, dasilirio and podocarpo and the real profit starts in the 3rd year of cultivation..