Dairy value chain: transfer cost and local prices. / Sistema agroindustrial do leite: custos de transferência e preços locais.
AUTOR(ES)
Gustavo Fischer Sbrissia
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2005
RESUMO
This article aimed to study payment systems of milk in Brazil, in the six main producing states. It analyzed and discussed the different milk prices practiced due to the paying of bonus per volume, of 1,666 producers, among 62 different lines of collect of 5 cooperatives. Roughly 34% of the studied cooperatives in Brazil pay per volume and around 55% of the cooperatives use the criteria of volume and quality to pay producers´ income. For the freight payment, 58% of the cooperatives charge the freight only based on the volume delivered, whereas 23% use the criteria of distance and volume in the figures and 19% of the cooperatives charge producers the freight based on the distance run. On the second phase was chosen 5 cooperatives, which use only the criterion of volume to pay the milk. The amount of volume obtained in the month studied totaled 4,300,810 liters, in 63 lines of collect of 5 cooperatives. The average was 106 liters/day per producer, with the minimum of 0.6 liters up to a maximum value of 3,983 liters/day for the biggest producer. The study also analyzed the freight paid per liter. The average of the study was R$ 0.029/liter, with the payment ranging from no charge of freight up to R$ 0.070 per liter. The net value per liter showed an average of R$ 0.373, with the minimum of R$ 0.255 and a maximum price of R$ 0.541, variations of 112%. It was observed that the value received per liter of milk significantly increases with the raise of volume. The conclusions obtained alow to state that the price of the freight charged on the producers, as It was expected, is linked positively to the length of the route of collect and to the number of producers in the route and negatively to the volume collected from each producer. These very variables affect also according to the economic logic of the prices received by producers. It was noticed, however, that the volume produced affected positively the prices received also by other vias that did not have any impact on the freight price. This is, without doubt, one strong evidence favorable to the discrimination of prices against minor producers, even thought it is not a real proof of such fact.
ASSUNTO(S)
indústria agrícola milk production preço price agriculture industry leite produção
