Competitive performance of brazilian soybean exporter agro-industry in the period 2000 to 2016
International Journal of Development Research
Competitive performance of brazilian soybean exporter agro-industry in the period 2000 to 2016
Received 17th November, 2017; Received in revised form 14th December, 2017 ; Accepted 23rd January, 2018; Published online 28th February, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Maiara Thaís Tolfo Gabbi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The objective of this study was to analyze the competitive performance of soybean processing agro-industry based in Brazil during the period from 2000 to 2017, in order to demonstrate the Brazilian competitive capacity to expand markets and to remain a leader in the oilseed market. For this, the methodology used was to measure indicators such as Market Share and the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index. The database was obtained from the United States Department of Agriculture. The results showed that the soybean production chain in Brazil increased during the analyzed period. It was possible to confirm Brazil's growing insertion in the oilseed market. It was also possible to verify that the soybean production chain made important progress, and Market Share allowed identifying the percentage market share of power in two major countries, the United States (45.25%) and Brazil (46.71%). The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index measured the high concentration of the market in Brazil and the econometric model of the growth rate allowed to identify that the increase of the exports of Brazil grew at a geometric rate of 8.34% per year. Finally, the hypothesis was confirmed that the Brazilian soybean exporting industry is outperforming and leading the oilseed market.
