ABSTRACT:The existence of a minimum storage capacity of grains as a condition for the maintenance of regulator physical stocks has been used as a strategic factor in the agribusiness expansion. However, in Brazil the storage infrastructure has not followed the growth of the agricultural sector. This fact is evident in the case of soybeans that currently represent 49% of grain production in the country, whose volume production has been increasing significantly over the years. This study aimed to predict the futureneeds of static storage capacity of soybeans from historical data to estimate the investment needed to install storage units in Brazil for the next five years. A statistic analysis of collected data allowed a forecast and identification of the number of storage units that should be installed to meet the storage needs of soybeans in the next five years. It was concluded that by 2015 the soybean storage capacity should be 87 million tons, and to store 49% of soybeans produced, 1,104 storage units should be installed at a cost of R$ 442 million.KEYWORDS: agribusiness, Glycine max, temporal series, harvest seasons. ANÁLISE E PREVISÃO DAS NECESSIDADES DE ARMAZENAMENTO DA SOJA NO BRASILRESUMO: A existência de capacidade mínima de armazenamento de grãos como condição necessária para a manutenção de estoques físicos reguladores tem sido frequentemente usada como fator estratégico na expansão dos negócios agrícolas. Entretanto, no Brasil, a infraestrutura de armazenamento não tem acompanhado o crescimento do setor agrícola. Este fato fica evidente no caso da cultura da soja, que representa atualmente cerca de 49% da produção de grãos, no País, cujo volume de produção vem aumentando significativamente a cada ano. O presente estudo teve como objetivo prever as necessidades futuras de capacidade estática de armazenamento da soja a partir de dados históricos e estimar o investimento necessário para instalar unidades de armazenamento no Brasil para os próximos cinco anos. A análise estatística permitiu realizar uma projeção e a identificação do número de unidades de armazenamento que devem ser instaladas para suprir a necessidade de armazenamento de soja nos próximos anos. Concluiu-se que, em 2015, a capacidade estática de armazenamento da soja deve ser de 87 milhões de toneladas, e para armazenar 49% da soja produzida, 1.104 unidades de armazenamento devem ser instaladas a um custo aproximado de R$ 442 milhões. PALAVRAS-CHAVE:agronegócio, Glycine max , séries temporais, safras.

This study involved rural properties of the Brazilian Cerrado, which are necessarily consistent with the requirements of good agricultural practices for quality, innovation, and technology in the production and management of properties. Based on the knowledge and information as value-added production factors, we sought to highlight the opportunities for improving competitiveness, and thus a review of the literature on competitiveness, knowledge, and information as a differential factor for production with added value, innovation, and territorial technology as well as entrepreneurship. With the data from the field study, the objective was to show how knowledge and information, applied in production and social capital, can leverage competitiveness. The analyzes carried out using AHP indicate that some initiatives already aid in the promotion of innovation and technology applied to production, making it necessary, however, to encourage knowledge and information among producers and other stakeholders collectively, for the best costs and results. They also point to the low concern of producers with training and other productivity improvement techniques, such as selective harvesting. Authenticated that the producers opt for the sale of their production via commodity, aiming to profit quickly. Reasons for this are, in the non-perception of value added (sales in commodity); in the absence of rural structure for the processing and harvesting of the coffee required for special sale; in the precariousness of collective export agents (cooperatives are dependent on traders) and deficiencies in management for positioning in the properties (most work in scale).

Environmental issues play an important role as regard the direction of the economy and public policy. Even though fragmented scientific knowledge does not interact in dialogue and appropriate continuous flow to sustain economic development, it is placed to ensure the need to seek knowledge capable of capturing the multi-causalities and interdependence in the natural order of processes (production) and social (environmental) which determine and delineate technical, economic indicators (competitiveness). This study analyzed the environmental and technical indicators and their degree of influence on the competitive advantage of forming the value chain of aquaculture enterprises in Capitólio/ MG, Brazil. Two economic streams on business strategies guided the study evidence to a competitive advantage. The first was positioning as a performance attribute inside and outside of organizations and the second recognized the collective capabilities as components of a dynamic value chain inter-related to inclusion and recognition of these components by the market. The methods used in this research included the analysis of biophysical, political, cultural and economic dimensions, with a multidisciplinary view of the indicators in the value chain in order to determine how they can generate competitiveness. This approach used the analysis of strengths and weaknesses as an essential step in defining the interventions needed in the value chain. These interventions are defined according to the potential of creating competitive advantage in the production cycle as cost control drivers and or product differentiation drivers in the market. The results showed that strengths and weaknesses were directly related to productive activities such as the amount of administered food, stress diminishing and fish mortality, in addition to nutritional deficiencies that impair the final quality of the fish. These results express the possibility of using market share opportunities through the recognition and improvement of analyzed and defined indicators.

The orange juice chain is a representative sector of the Brazilian agribusiness sector and its performance warrants analysis to identify strategies to enhance its competitiveness. Analysis of asymmetry in food value chain is important because it provides valuable information on market structure and performance. We use an asymmetric threshold error correction model to examine threshold, short- and long-run asymmetries on price transmission from international to domestic prices of oranges in Brazil. We use monthly data on international frozen concentrated orange juice prices and domestic prices of oranges in Brazil for the period from January 1996 to December 2020 in the analysis. We find evidence of threshold and asymmetries in short- and long-run price transmission and asymmetric adjustment towards a long-run relationship between international and domestic orange prices in Brazil. Decreases in international prices that lead to reductions in marketing margins are passed on quickly to domestic prices, but this is not the case for increases in international prices. We discuss implications for the Brazilian citrus industry.

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