The major cost positions of maintaining a warehouse are depreciation as well as amortization on
warehouse and maintenance facilities and other equipments (JUNQEIRA, 2012) (see figure 4.10).
The principal limitation to investments in on-farm warehouses is the high financial requirement.
KLASENER (2012) instanced a project to build a new warehouse in Nova Mutum-MT, close to Sorriso.
With planned capacities of approximately 9,000 t in silo storing systems and elevators with a
performance of 100 t/h2
, investment costs come by four million R$