Avaliação de alternativas tecnológicas para a cajucultura do nordeste sob condições de risco

Abstract

The cashew crops have given important socialeconomic benefits in the Northeast Brazil. Nowaday, they are passing by serious crisis caused by low yield of kernels. In order to change that situation, the National Center for Tropical Agroindustrial Research has some technological alternatives, which were selected for economic analysis under risk. The selected alternatives - dwarf clones of precocious cashew tree, sowed clones of precocius cashew tree and dwarf clones of medium size comum cashew tree - were applied for expansion of land and renovation of adults orchards of commom cashew tree. The results of this research give evidence of that dwarf clones of precocious cashew tree showed better economic efficiency and smaller risk for farmers.