Diagnóstico técnico-econômico da ovinocaprinocultura no estado do Ceará

Abstract

It is sought, initially, to typify and to characterize the producers in homogeneous groups, according to the technological levels, specified by the number of adopted practices. Soon afterwards, it is identified the threats and opportunities pointed by the producers themselves to improve the performance of the sheep and goat raising aiming to make proposition of specific actions that are used as base to formulate plans and programs for developing the sector. As the method of analysis, it is proposed a methodological approach of group analysis. The used data are of primary source, collected through the application of questionnaires. It is verified that the sheep and goat raising, in spite of its scope in the Northeast Area and in the State of Ceará, in general, it is still carried out with little expression in technological terms, compared to other state and national agricultural activities.