Competitividade do agronegócio cearense no mercado internacional: o caso da amêndoa da castanha de caju, do melão e do camarão

Abstract

The present study had for general objective to analyze the competitiveness of the exports selected products (cashew nuts(ACC), melon and shrimp) of the agrobusiness from Ceará. in the period 1998-2003. For so much, it was used exports acting indicators: Comparative Advantage Reveals Indicator (VCR), Covering Rate (TC) and the model Constant Market Share (CMS), that are quite used for evidencing the forms as the international competitiveness it shows. In the period in study, fall of the exports was observed of ACC from Ceará which was mainly caused from losses of competitiveness, expressed by the exports reduction value of smaller proportion of the effect destiny of the exports, with decrease in the participation of the total value of the imports of countries as United States, Canada, Lebanon, Netherlands, France, Argentina, among others. The good acting of ACC Vietnam in the world trade had an important role in the negative impact of the effect destiny of the exports. The melon, main exported fruit of the State, presented substantial increment in export line with the insert of new markets. The growth of the exports of melon is explained, basically, by the competitiveness effect. The competitiveness gain melon were influenced by favorable internal conditions as governmental incentives for the development of irrigated agriculture and special irmigated frut crops. The cultivated shrimp was the emergent product of larger growth in the participation of the export line that is due the internal conditions: use of advanced technology and good adaptation of the species " Litopenaeus vannamei " to the local € conditions, and you foreigner: problems faced by Ecuador, that took to drastic fall mn your production. The tools used in this study constitute a support to analyze the agrobusiness and to facilitate the identification of the sources of limitation and potentially for export.