Caracterização do sistema orgânico de produção de sementes para agricultura no Brasil

Abstract

In recent decades, the agriculture has been changing its characteristics based on new technologies development due to an effort of differentiation in production systems and products in order to increase its market. The organic production with increased production, costumers and market interests, and environmental and social matters is spotted out as an extremely competitive niche in the market. Therefore, this study describes the organic seeds production system as well as the current economic situation of the domestic and foreign markets. The technical methodology used in this case study and culminating in text construction were: a literature review, document and unstructured interviews with persons and entities involved in the sector. For the future, market growth will depend on some key factors such as investment in new technologies and researches, which turns out in more skilled workers, constancy in product availability, financial support for these producers and more projects intended to become more accessible the implementation of the organic production system. From the current legislation’s point of view, this system does not have a market dispute with the traditional one, basically, because both purposes production systems are different. To wrap up, it is still noticed low scale demand for making companies change their focus and direct efforts to meet this niche in the market.