Análise da comercialização do coco verde no Estado do Ceará

Abstract

Coconut cultivation has intensified in several countries, aiming to meet the growing demand for coconut products. The advance of the coconut palm crop in Brazil is not only due to the evolution of productive levels, which make the country a prominent place among the world's largest producers, but also because of the consolidation of cultivation in non-traditional regions (EMBRAPA 2014). Strategically located close to major consumer and import markets such as the United States and Europe, the State of Ceará has a competitive advantage in supplying the international market for tropical fruits. In this situation, through incentives, Ceará is already a major producer of fruit, and can take advantage of the growth of the world tropical fruit market (SEAGRI 2001). Attention to this discussion, this study was concentrated in the coconut fruit (Cocos nucifera), due to its economic importance, for which data were collected at producer, wholesale and retail level with the objective of analyzing the coconut- green cultivated in Ceará, through the following topics: characterization of the current geography and potential for production, where data were collected from the main producing municipalities in Ceará, concluding that the areas most favorable to coconut-green cultivation are the Ibiapaba Region, Apodi and the Metropolitan Agropolos and the Lower Acaraú; Analysis of the margins of commercialization, in which there was a margin of 70% divided in 35.42% in the retail level, and in 34.58% in the wholesale level; with regard to seasonality, in the months from December to February prices were above average for the three sectors, producer, wholesale and retail. And description of the agents and commercialization channels, whose analysis evidenced the undesirable presence of the intermediate agent and allowed the visualization of the different forms of flow of the production.