Spatial scopes of the milk production chain in Minas Gerais

Abstract:

Minas Gerais is the largest national milk producer. Milk activity is an important generator of direct and indirect jobs, and its evaluation can contribute to a better understanding of the regional growth process. Thus, this paper evaluated the spatial dimension of the milk production chain in Minas Gerais. The supply side and the intermediate and final demand side treat these dimensions. In this way, we performed the mapping and the proposal of a typology of the municipalities in this productive chain through the construction of latent potential indicators. The main results allow tracing corridors, which can boost the economic development and the social insertion of the municipalities in this production chain. In addition, we identified that the production growth is spatially concentrated. Therefore, from this analysis, we provide subsidies for the formulation of investment policies and microcredit policies for this activity.

Keywords:
factorial analysis; clusters analysis; spatial autoregressive model; regional productivity; municipalities typology of Minas Gerais