Percepção da competitividade da produção e comercialização de feijão pela agricultura familiar no estado de Goiás

• Autor(a) principal: Silveira, Marina Aparecida da
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFG
• dARK ID: ark:/38995/001300000cv3m
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/5172
• topic: Direcionadores; Municípios goianos; Cultivo; Leguminosa; Mercado; Drivers; Cities and towns in Goiás; Cultivation; Legumes; Market; CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::AGRONOMIA

Bean cultivation is significantly important for Brazilian family farming. This legume is one of the main staple foods for various families in the country, especially low-income households, and it is probably their main source of vegetable protein. In this context, this research aims at studying the production chain of beans which are produced by family farming in Goiás, from the perspective of competitiveness regarding the bean production and commercialization operated by this same producer before the bean market. It is a basic hypothesis the fact that the competitiveness drivers used by family farming are fragile. Nevertheless, those family farmers make use of divercificated strategies in the bean production and commercialization which lead them to compete in the market. This paper consists in an exploratory case study whose primary data collection was conducted through elaboration and application of semi-structured interviews with closed questions, aiming at collecting information from key agents from upstream to downstream. We have interviewed two producers from Planalto Sectional and two from Vale do Paranã Sectional; one technician from EMATER Vale Planalto and five from EMATER Vale do Paranã Sectional; two private technicians from EMATER Planalto Sectional; one grain broker from Planalto Sectional and three secretaries of municipal agriculture from Vale do Paranã Sectional; having a total of sixteen interviews held in March and in June of 2015. The results suggest that the considered hypothesis is true, once the drivers used by the farmers in question lead them to competitive advantages in bean production and commercialization. However, according to Van Duren et al. (1991) methodology, this competitiveness is considered very low, next to neutrality. Therefore, it is important that those producers give special attention to such competitiveness.