Uma Análise do índice de vantagem comparativa revelada do complexo soja da região Centro-Oeste

Abstract

The Central-West Region distinguishes itself in the Brazilian agricultural sector for being one of the main producers and exporters of seed. The data used in this paper are: acreage, production, productivity of soy and exports of the soy complex. They are coming from of the: National Supply Company (CONAB), System Analysis Exterior (ALICE), the Bureau of Foreign Trade (SECEX) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). The objective of this paper is to make a description of the production and exportation of the soy culture in the Central-West Region, besides comparing these databases with the values of its Federative Units. From this point, we analyzed how important the products of the soy complex are to the Brazilian Central-West Region. In order to make this analysis, we made use of the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) index. However, as this index presents asymmetrical positive values, we turned to the Revealed Symmetric Comparative Advantage (RSCA) index, in order to supply this limitation, given that the RSCA values may vary between -1 and +1. We verified that the Central-West region presents comparative advantages in the exportation of the soy complex, but this advantage is decreasing for the past years.