REVISITANDO O SETOR SUCROALCOOLEIRO DO NORDESTE: O NOVO CONTEXTO E A REESTRUTURAÇÃO POSSÍVEL
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.61673/ren.1998.2064Keywords:
Regional Economy, Agribusiness-Northeast.Abstract
The article aims at studying the perspectives of Northeastern sugar cane agroindustry in Brazil. It defines the set of problems faced nowadays by this sector and identifies the main lines of an strategy which can lead it to a higher level of productivity together with more economic utilization of by-products. It stresses, in spite of the problems, the concrete possibilities the sector has to undertake a reestructuring which would lead it to reach competitiveness. In this direction it is essential to change its pattern of management, its financing conditions and the technological level. The strategy proposed takes into consideration certain experiences in progress in the sector involving more dynamic enterprises. It defends that a policy of technological modernization should be implemented in articulation with more dynamic entrepreneurs in Northeast whose logic, as part of a competitve oligopoly, combines with higher productivity and diversification. The results, nevertheless, would be conditioned by an environment of heterogeneity and may show a high degree of distinction.




