ID: 37602
Authors:
Ednilse Maria Willers, Lucir Reinaldo Alves, Jefferson Andronio Ramundo Staduto, Carlito Germann.
Source:
RACE: Revista de Administração, Contabilidade e Economia, v. 11, n. 1, p. 103-130, January-June, 2012. 28 page(s).
Keyword:
Mesoregion Western of Paraná State , Regional Development , Swine production chain
Document type: Article (Portuguese)
Show Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyze the concentration of agro-industrial chain swine in the West of Paraná State, Brazil. We used as methodology the collection of secondary data on the creation and agroindustrialization of swine, and locational quotient and locational Gini coefficient to identify the cities more specialized in this activity in the region. The swine has always been present in the productive activities in this region. In the 1970s it was one of the main economic activities. In the same year, this region was responsible for 29.15% of swine slaughtered and sold in Paraná State, and 6.48% in Brazil. In 1985 the participation of this region was 54.44% and 8.75% respectively. The data show that the State of Paraná showed significant growth of the activity of raising and slaughtering swine in recent decades, with 373% increase in the slaughter of swine from 1994 to 2008, with the main western region of Paraná State in this activity. In this region, the number of formal employees in the activity of swine grew 511.1%, and the activity of slaughter swine grew 364.6% between 1994 to 2008. Moreover, the results showed sufficient information to indicate that the slaughter industry, swine production is considered a cluster, with strong evidence for the existence of collective efficiency.
