A pecuária de corte na amazônia brasileira: sistemas de produção, mercado e ambiente institucional.

Abstract

This work evaluates the technological characteristics of the production systems, Amazon’s beef cattle market and institutional environment. Thesis composed by four chapters, elaborated using production official data, market and investment public policies, combined with statistical and econometric application methods. The first chapter assess production behavior, prices and institutional and environmental variable effects on Amazon cattle production on the past three decades. In chapter two factorial analysis were utilized to identify underlying technological factors and, through factorial scores, estimate an index to gauge the production system technological factors on Amazonia cities cattle. In third chapter, via econometric methods, assessed a production function Cobb-Douglas type, aiming to appraise the cattle production system economic efficiency regarding production factors utilization (pastures, work and capital), in addition to identify the displacement effect caused by technical assistance services accesses. Chapter four evaluates cattle market through asupply and demand recursive econometric model estimative. The goal is to quantify relevant variable effects such as, prices, income, rural wage, rural credit, deforestation among others, upon supply and demand behavior on cattle slaughter. These results are important to guide investments and foment public policies to Amazon beef cattle, on a sustainability and technological innovation perspective.