Identificação e análise de fatores que afetam a comercialização de algodão arbóreo em caroço na microrregião seridó-RN.

Abstract

The analysis of the results observed in the research allowed the achievement of the proposed objectives and verification of the hypothesis that the intervention of the Intermediate, aided by marketing mechanisms and disorganization of the farmers, leads to a decapitalization of the producers. The main conclusions of the present study are as follows, regarding the process of commercialization of seed cotton. The lack of access to government services related to commercialization and production itself, which directly affects the small producer on a larger scale, does not allow them to retain production and speculate for better prices. In this way, the product is delivered to the Intermediate soon after harvest, or as the process is carried out. For this, in general, there is an earlier commitment of the producer to this marketing agent who is usually landowner. Intermediate action actually begins well before harvesting, financing production expenses, and supplying genres to the producer. In the case of production in partnership, the aforementioned commitment, in addition to the above aspects, begins in the act of transferring land for cultivation, since this agreement, in most cases, conditions the commercialization of the product. This Intermediate procedure inhibits any other small producers' choice of marketing channels for cotton. The current marketing process, Inadequate for the small and part of the average producers, benefits to Intermediate it in a general way. These advantages are presented as reflections of the marketing activities or services that are offered to the farmers through different policies. It includes the Policy of Guarantee of Minimum Prices, Information of Meneado, Storage and Classification of the Product. The transport of cotton itself, whose chaste is directly paid by the mill, although indirectly is charged to the producer, constitutes a source of profit for the Intermediate. The various instruments referred to, which are easily accessible to large producers and therefore to the intermediary, are used by them to enable a relatively high marketing margin [2 0.61], compared to the average price received by the producer [ CR 9.78 per kg). This margin of commercialization, which, naturally and subtracted from the income of the small producer, certainly reflects negatively in the production, affecting the quantity and the. product quality. With reference to the price of cotton, which shows an increasing behavior during the harvest, it is initially determined by the mill and reduced by the Intermediate to reach the small producer. Thus, combined with the time of product commercialization, another mechanism is manipulated by the Intermediary to obtain greater profits. The different mechanisms used by the Intermediary, which mirror their performance with the producers, are correlated to the different strata of production, being exactly next to the class of the small producers where it is verified the greater performance of that agent. The associative degree of the producer is added to this situation, since the index of its organization is manifested according to the strata of production. mainly the small and part of the middle producers are the most disorganized, and in this way, greatly favor the performance of the Intermediary. However, with reference to the associative aspect, small producers are disorganized because they are not sufficiently oriented, and thus, if persuaded, they would be willing to form groups or affiliation to properly structured cooperatives.