Os problemas enfrentados pelas pequenas cooperativas de leite frente às mudanças no mercado de captação e comercialização do produto: um estudo de caso das cooperativas Colels e Colerbi

Abstract

The present study aims to identify the reasons that led the capture of milk cooperatives (COLELS and COLERBI) to withdraw from the activity and act more like intermediate between production and industrialization. The research is a case study and is characterized as exploratory type. According to the approach of the problem the present study is predominantly qualitative. To get the results of the survey, we used two main sources of evidence for the data collection. The first, a personal interview with the Presidents of cooperatives and also some key informants chosen by the author. The second source of research work was documentary, analyzing accounting balances of cooperatives in study to determine the economic and financial situationIn this way, it was possible to observe and analyze what were the reasons that led the capture of milk cooperatives referred to withdraw the funding activity of milk. With respect to the results, it can be said that the main reasons that led them to shut down the capture of milk are related to industry-market problems, the fact that co-operatives are acting in an intermediate position in the chain of milk at a time when that occurred in processing value chain structure, causes the same to impede on the market.