A percepção do produtor do Oeste do Paraná sobre a integração avícola à partir do enfoque da nova economia institucional

Abstract

The poultry activity is on the rise and is featured in economic scene. The satisfactory performance of sector made of Brazil the second world producer and the largest world chicken meat exporter. These national production is concentrated in the south of the country and the Paraná is leader of the states, mainly the west region, where the agroindustries are inserted, featured to among the 15 largest national chicken meat exporters. In this scenario the studied region agroindustrial system is in your majority coordinated for agroindustries trhought poultry producers and integrating institutions. Thus the study aims to know the producers perception of the activity, to draw a socioeconomic profile of these producers and to discuss the relations between them and the agroindustries. For this purpose, the study is supported by the New Institutional Economics theory, which seeks to identify and help in the understanding of these relations. In order to respond to the objectives of the study, questionnaires were applied to the poultry producers of the studied region, after analyzing these data. The main results indicate that the profile of the producers is composed mostly by small producers, with small properties and with family labor present in the activity, There is still a high degree of dependence on agroindustry, it was observe that the form of governance used allows for competitive advantages and a reduction in transactions costs.