Impacto sócio-econômico da promoção de sementes de feijão miudo (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp) no município de São José do Norte/RS

Abstract

The work was accomplished at the district of São José do Norte, RS and the objective was to study the seeds production system of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp). It consisted of an evaluation of the economy of the district for the analysis of the production systems, which was accomplished in three stages. The first one consisted in producers characterization, with the purpose of identifying possible socioeconomical differences and use of technology. For this, correspondence analysis was used with nine quantitative and 33 qualitative characteristics. In the second stage there were used the static and dynamic aspects of three crop systems: (i) onion, (ii) isolated cowpea and (iii) mixed system, with three production factors: (i) financial resources, (ii) land and (iii) labor. For this evaluation the method called Petri s Net was used. In the third stage it was evaluated the economic impact of the seeds cowpea production in the region. In this case, the used method was denominated Leontief Matrix. The results demonstrated that the producers are homogeneous with relationship to its behavior. In the system analysis it was possible to observe that all system have, as the most limitant factor, financial sources. On the other hand, the mixed system is the one that showed a smallest index of resources sub-use, that represents a better use of the production potential. The system of seeds cowpea production has a small impact in the county economy, due to the volume of the regional economy being much greater in relation to cowpea business. However, the seeds cowpea production can double the income of the growers.