Circuito espacial da pimenta-do-reino: implicações para a reprodução socioeconômica de produtores familiares do município de Cametá (PA)

Abstract

In this study, we present the analysis of the productive spatial circuit of black pepper and its consequences for the socio-economic reproduction of the family producer of the municipality of Cametá, state of Pará. From literature review, secondary data collection, and interviews to 21 producers and ten buyers-intermediaries, it was obtained, as a result, that this subcircuit integrates extra local dynamics, revealing internal and external actions to the municipality. This network shows the formation of local productive arrangements, which result from a specific geographical situation that explains the circulation of production in space, from an activity that is onerous to the producer, regarding the acquisition of materials and the attainment of labor, which presents a system of commercialization still carried out by intermediate buyers and rural entrepreneurs, occupying different levels in the chain of exchanges, and that obeys to a logic of local pricing, based on the reduction of commodity prices, with direct implications for the socioeconomic reproduction of the producer, consolidating his role as provider of the raw material. Faced with this reality, it is necessary to think of strategies, aimed at production, marketing, and the addition of stricto sensu value, to suppress part of the negative effects of the current structure of the circuit, especially on family production.