Análise da comercialização do tomate no Estado do Ceará

Abstract

Tomato is a vegetable of great economic importance for Brazil, being among the 10 largest world producers with more than 3 million tons annually. Ceará, thanks to investments in olericulture in family farming, is the second largest producer in the Northeast behind only Bahia. Considering this discussion, this study focused on the tomato fruit (Solanum lycopersicum L), due to its economic importance. For this purpose, monthly price data were collected at producer, wholesale and retail level from January 2014 to December 2001. 2018 with the objective of evaluating the seasonal variation of the price, the commercialization margin and the evolution of the commercialization prices of tomatoes in the State of Ceará, through statistical tools, aiming to identify the periods of low and high prices in order to assist in the reduction. instability of producers' revenues. The information required for this study was collected on the CONAB website, which contains historical series of the main crops grown in the country. In the analysis of the results obtained, a trading margin of 55.02% was observed, of which 42.92% at the retail level and 12.10% at the wholesale level; When analyzing the seasonal indices for the producer, it can be seen that the months between May and June have values above the reference, at wholesale level the best seasonal index was in May 130.3 and for retail the best month. It was April with 120.3. As for the price evolution, it can be seen that the best amount paid to the producer, wholesale and retail were respectively R $ 2.58, R $ 3.89, R $ 6.80 respectively and in different months.