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Abstract
The present article is about the wheat productive chain in Brazil
and focuses on the economic reality of its main connecting links, with
emphasis on the links between agricultural and industrial production.
Let it be accentuated that the article brings present time accounts of the
sector in Brazil, from the result analysis of field research among agricultural
producers, producer co-operatives and wheat mills. The study of the
Brazilian wheat culture chain, with its problems, offers a broader view to
understand the e country’s conditions, which would allow us not only
to answer the exposed doubts, but over all to shed some light on the
main paths traced by Brazil’s wheat production in these first years of the
XXIst century. The national wheat culture is threatened and will hardly
reach self-sufficiency, since Brazilian producers cannot become competitive
enough, neither sustain comparative advantages particularly in
relation to competitors from Argentina. Wheat commercialization faces
equal misfortune, whether related to the product’s prices or to the quality
demanded by the mills. Since the full withdrawal of state intervention
in national wheat production, carried out in 1991/91, wheat production
has been regulated merely by market moods, and this completely modified
the status of Brazilian producer competitiveness and it’s negative
aftermath is felt throughout chain itself. Thus, one of the main conclusions
is that the Brazilian wheat chain does not function adequately, as
the efficiency of the national production is kept in check, and its future,
compromized.