Evaristo Marzabal Neves

CITRICULTURA BRASILEIRA: EFEITOS ECONÔMICO-FINANCEIROS, 1996 ¾ 2000

This study analyses the economic importance of the Brazilian citrus industry in the Brazilian Trade Balance in the period of 1996 - 2000, as well as the economic financial transaction in the citrus chain along 1999. This analysis shows the considerable participation of the frozen concentrate orange juice (FCOJ) in the Sao Paulo Trade Payment, where only recently this product lost the 1st place for airplanes, as well as its importance among the most important Brazilian export products, placing the Brazilian fruits crops inside the best export products.

Análise da demanda por defensivos pela fruticultura brasileira 1997-2000

This study estimates for the Brazilian fruit trees, mainly banana, orange, apple, melon and grape, the relative demand for chemicals, considering total expenses and quantity demanded for active principle per hectare, from 1997 to 2000. It is also established a comparative analysis among this demand with ones made by the main Brazilian crops (soybean, maize, sugar cane and coffee), that are predominating in terms of grown area and dominating, in absolute terms, of chemicals total expenses and consume of active principle volume in Brazil. Yet, determines, in absolute terms, the importance of fruit trees in chemicals total expenses and active principle consume, especially acaricides and fungicides. It concludes, about the importance of estimated relative demand for fruit trees, that it is higher than the ones by the mainly commercial crops in the country, offering indicators for the demand and market behavior to chemicals different classes by the Brazilian fruit trees.