Tecnologia, administração rural e infra estrutura predial componentes da tipificação de empresas cacaueiras no Estado da Bahia

Abstract

The typification of the farra enterprise is an important aspect to be analysed. To know the process of typification, different variables need to be considered. In its plans, the CEPLAC considers the following explanatory variables for typification: technology, farm management and bu i Id ing s . The objective of this research was to analyse the model used by CEPLAC and to analyse a model proposed for typification for the farm enterprise. The research was conducted in Itabuna, state of Bahia, Brazil, using one sample of 68 (sixty-eight) produc er s. In the model used by CEPLAC, the explanatory variable, technology, refers to technical recommenda tion. In the new model proposed, that variable considers the percentual of technical recommendation. The explanatory variable, farm management, used by CEPLAC, considers the management in function of utilization and in the model proposed, administrative activities were considered. The third variable, buildings, is coraposed of Utilities (buildings, roads, etc) to operate cocoa enterprise, and it is the same for both models, CEPLAC and new model* proposed. In the model used by CEPLAC there is no correlation and no linear relationship between the explanatory variable and the dependent variable, farm productivity, except the technology. In the multiple regression the coefficient of farm management variable was negative, meaning that variable had a bad valuation . The coefficient of determina tion (R2) was 0,1238. In the new model proposed, the coefficient of determination (R ) was 0,7298, and a high proportion of the variation of farm productivity can be attributed to the variation of technology. Considering the variable, farm management, in the multiple regression model the coefficient of determination (R2) increased from 0,7298 to 0,8036. There is no association between buildings and productivity, and it recomends to CEPLAC improvement in that explanatory vari ab le. Considering the technology recommended by CEPLAC, there is a fair utilization by cocoa farmers, and it needs to be improved. About the administrative activities, the cocoa farmers are worrying with respect to personnel activities, and the others activities need to be improved. So, there is a better adjustment in the model proposed, and the high proposition • of the variation of farra productivity can be attributed to the variation of technology.