Economia & Região (Feb 2020)
THE POULTRY SECTOR IN BRAZIL AND ITS REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION
Abstract
The national production of broiler chicken has been outstanding among the other productive sectors in the last decades. The exponential performance of the sector enabled Brazil to take a leading position in the world ranking, as the largest exporter and third largest producer of chicken meat. Although all Brazilian states produce chicken meat, production is concentrated in the Southern Region of the country, with Paraná being the main producer and exporter of poultry in the country. In this scenario, this article had as main objective the analysis of the evolution of the poultry production in Brazil from 1995 to 2015, for that the analysis of the specialization of the production of broiler chicken was made through the Locational Quotient (QL) and the analysis of the productive concentration of the exports was made through Market-Share (MS). The main results obtained indicate that the advances in technology in production, improvement of feed conversion, genetic indexes, among others, contributed to the evolution of the sector, both in terms of production and exports. In this sense, the South region is the most developed and specialized in this segment. The integration contract system facilitated the link between rural producers and agribusiness, with the supply of raw material and technical assistance, and the producer with the necessary manpower and structure
