Economicidade e certificação da cafeicultura familiar na zona da mata de minas Gerais
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2009-12
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João Gaspar Farias
Resumo
This paper is part of a research project developed to
verify the economic feasibility of coffee grown by family farm
smallholders, seeking insertion in certified coffee markets. It has
focused on production systems on farms under conventional and
certified organic grown coffee, in municipalities of the Minas
Gerais State Tropical Forest Zone. Economic efficiency, quality,
competitiveness, equity, and sustainability indicators were compared
for these production systems. Production and commercialization
management processes were analyzed during the visits to farms.
From the economic viewpoint, it was found that all analyzed
farms presented profitability capable of promoting the sustainable
exploitation development. Microeconomic analysis and case
studies resulted in a set of graphs and tables. As a result, it was
concluded that all farmers presented capability for a sustainable
development of the exploitation, under the economic dimension,
even though low production scale determines low life quality
levels to their families. In spite of these shortcomings, the
opportunity to participate in a market niche that adds value to
the product, a determining factor for organic coffee economic
sustainability, suggests the certification of conventional farms,
since the certification process is required for their inclusion in
the organic coffees market
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Viabilidade econômica, Sustentabilidade, Certificação, Cafeicultura orgânica e convencional, Economic feasibility, Sustainability, Certification, Organic and conventional coffee growing
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CAIXETA, Glória Zélia Teixeira; TEIXEIRA, Sônia Milagres. Economicidade e certificação da cafeicultura familiar na zona da mata de minas Gerais. Pesquisa Agropecuária Tropical, Goiânia, v. 39, n. 4, p. 317-329, out./dez. 2009. Disponível em: <https://www.revistas.ufg.br/pat/article/view/5530/5879>.