The objective of this study was to assess the capacity of family farmers to recover from the most practiced crops (maize and beans) in the Sertão dos Inhamunsin response to the stress caused by water instability between 1977 and 2013. The evolution of the production value, areas harvested and yields of these crops were evaluated. In order to estimate this resilience index, we use the decomposition method in the...
The objective of this study is to estimate income differentials between agricultural and nonagricultural activities in rural areas of the country. The data used are The objective of this study is to estimate income differentials between agricultural and nonagricultural activities in rural areas of the country. The data used are from PNAD (2015) and the models used were Blinder-Oaxaca and RIF Regression. It can ...
The livestock sector is strongly influenced by weather phenomena and rainfall instability becomes an obstacle to productive capacity, especially in municipalities belonging to the semiarid region. Producers plan and organize their production based on past experiences, and from these experiences, they create their expectations for the future. This work evaluated how exogenous variables (rainfall and prices) inte...
The objectives of this research are to analyse the effect of "boll weevil" on planted area, divided into scale effect and substitútion effect. Also to calculate economic returns to cotton exploration in the period before and after appearence of boll weevil, in the state of Ceará. The results indicated that with the presence of bóll weevil, area under cotton crop decreased and was substituted by others crops. Al...
The objective of this study is to analyse the impact caused by boll weevil on planted area, crop production, productivity and production location and to identify lhe agricultura! growth model occurred in lhe various spatial planning units of Ceará slate. lt was observed that, before lhe introduction of Boll Weevil (bicudo), the production of perennial cotton crop showed a decline of 10% per year. On the olher h...
Analisaram-se o comportamento dos preços do cacau e a elasticidade de transmissão entre os preços externo e interno. A análise é realizada com a utilização de regressão, tabelas e gráficos. Os resultados indicam que houve expressivo declínio dos preços do cacau, a partir de 1978, e que a relação percentual entre os preços internos e externos não se alterou em decorrência da extinção do imposto de exportação. A ...
This study set out to examine the applicabi of uncertainty in agribusiness contracts of cashews, in the State of Ceará. To examine such application, were used secondary data drawn from historical series of data bank of CEASA and IPEA-DATA for estimating an econometric model, where were employed methods of time series, unit root tests, Cointegration tests test of Johansen, vector model of error correction and de...
The municipality of Acaraú is the second largest shrimp production center in the state of Ceará, Brazil, and the third largest in the country. The occupation generates direct and indirect jobs for a large part of the population of the municipality, with great local socioeconomic relevance. Current paper analyzes economically shrimp-producing rural properties in the municipality of Acaraú CE Brazil. Primary data...
The Brazilian rural environment underwent several transformations that currently collaborate for the new ways of production and modernization of work in the field. The question asked in the present study is whether these new labor habits contribute both to income generation and to the support of rural families, providing a broader economic and social perspective. In response to this problem, the aim is to estim...
The present study aimed to analyze the behavior of the production chain of mango exported to the United States, through the use of private and social indicators, from the perspective of Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM), in Petrolina-PE corridor to the port of Salvador; as well as the role of public policy on the studied chain. The producers that have been studied in the case were divided in three groups. Six accoun...