Tilapia is the most farmed fish in Brazil, its production continues to expand being consumed almost entirely by the domestic market. The recent drawback mechanism and environmental release laws for production in areas of the Amazon biome are two key elements in expanding and sustaining Brazil's exports. Based on the Global Value Chain (GVC) approach. This research aims to analyze two emerging tilapia poles in Brazil, comparing them with other poles that have existed longer in the country.
First, we defined a series of indicators corresponding to the six dimensions of the GVC (i.e. input-output structure; governance; updating; local institutional context; industry stakeholders) capable of establishing a comparison between the poles. As many of the elements of GVC's analysis are essentially based on qualitative data, we use the fuzzy logic to consolidate these indicators in quantitative terms.
In the first trimester of 2019 we collected data from the youngest Brazilian poles of Boa Esperança (Northeast) and Serra da Mesa / Cana Brava (Central West), as well as six others scattered in other regions of country, the dataset totaled a sample of 569 production units. Finally, we calculated the indicators and aggregated them spatially, which gave us a deep profile of each pole.
As a result, we identified at the producer level a set of important elements for the structuring of emerging poles, most of them related to the access to and availability of financial resources, infrastructure and input networks. In addition, in relation to the older poles, we identified other important factors to facilitate their definitive entry into global chains.