IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/ifma99/346516.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Process of Strategic Adjustment of Rural Enterprises in the Region of Garca, SP-Brazil

Author

Listed:
  • Neubern, Fernando Jacob
  • Peres, Fernando Curi
  • Cestari, Pedro Marcio J.

Abstract

Since the beginning of the eighties prices received by farmers have decreased sharply in Brazil The country economy was relatively closed to the rest of the world with just a small percentage of its GDP going to foreign countries. Beginning in the early nineties, the economy started a process of opening its frontiers to foreign trade. This study addresses the problem situation of how farmers adjusted their business to the new competitive environment they faced. A questionnaire was applied to a sample of farmers of the Vera Cruz and Garca regions of Sao Paulo State who have been farming since 1980. The region, initially specialized in coffee production, changed into a more diversified area. Other findings show that several modern management techniques were used, both to maintain profits and to reduce risks associated with farming, as a result of increased competition.

Suggested Citation

  • Neubern, Fernando Jacob & Peres, Fernando Curi & Cestari, Pedro Marcio J., 1999. "Process of Strategic Adjustment of Rural Enterprises in the Region of Garca, SP-Brazil," 12th Congress, Durban, South Africa, July 18-24, 1999 346516, International Farm Management Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:ifma99:346516
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.346516
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Farm Management;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:ifma99:346516. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ifmaaea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.