Identificação das incertezas de produção nos elos da cadeia de suprimentos da piscicultura na região de Dourados/MS

Abstract

World consumption of fish tripled in half a century. In Brazil, aquaculture is present throughout the country, with potential for development in this sector with exceptional growth and it could become one of the largest producers due to factors such as climate, annual production, feed grains yields, greatest freshwater systems, industrial parks and the domestic consumer market. This work intends to identify areas of uncertainty and/or barriers upstream and downstream partiners of the traditional farmed fish production system, with emphasis on the producer's vision. Data was acquired by qualitative techniques, using interview questionnaires to further quantification. The results showed that tanks are excavated, with water coming in by gravity from the springs, rivers and streams. The fingerlings are expensive and lackalevinos of standardization. Effective protection systems against predators are not used. The purchased fish food are expensive and the companies have no competitive advantage, weakening this partiners. The producers had reported that technical support are rare and they confess the need of these services on a monthly basis. They argue that there is no exchange and/or studies performed by the research intitutes which would impact directly on productivity growth, demonstrating the gap between these institutes and producers. The barriers to marketing are prices and classification, however the fingerlings creation problem is the transportation. They reported that fish farming is profitable and uncertainties are: sickness, weather conditions, theft of fishes, health problems, selling the produce, selling and not receiving. Finally it is worth to point out that producers are open to new technologies with low costs that fit their needs, indicating that research intitutes should focus their researches on the real needs of producers and provide better technical support. Producers need to join in associations and unions to assert their needs, and public agencies must provide support for companies settlement, increasing competition between feed processors and manufacturers. Therefore, all together, mainly the producer, can promote the strengthening of the production links in order to minimize uncertainties and strengthening the production chain, enabling greater gains in all production partiners.