Abstract

PINA ZAMBRANO, Henri. Aloe’s Market in Falcon State, Venezuela. Bioagro [online]. 2005, vol.17, n.2, pp.85-92. ISSN 1316-3361.

The participation of the Falcon State on the aloe’s market, estimated in more of US $ 105 thousand millions, nowadays has gradually decreased. The principal’s reasons being the no adequacy of the production of primary and intermediate goods to the quality standard (size, weight and agronomic managing) demanded by the agroindustry, as well as for isolated problems related to the procedure of deliveries. That have practically forced at market agents to established strong bows client - supplier that forms a scheme of imperfect monopsony that limits the entry of new agents inside this market. The previous situation derives in a position of disadvantage of the farmers, which motivated the accomplishment of a research project orientated to know the current structure and functioning of aloe’s market in the Falcon State and its interrelationships with the rest of the domestic and international market. The project tried to generate information of the first level from which strategic courses of action could be designed that allow the competitive insertion of the producer inside this attractive market.

Keywords : Market; Aloe; Agribusiness; Falcon; Structure   .