Agronegócio da apicultura: estudo da cadeia produtiva do mel em Alagoas

Abstract

The beekeeping, especially the honey production is pointed as one of the alternatives with respect to the reversion of unfavourable the social and ambient conditions in the agricultural way of the Northeast Region it Brazil and Been it of Alagoas. Having in the agricultural space not more only activities exclusively agriculturists, however the other activities like the small agro-industry, of familiar characteristic, can stimulate the generation, direct and indirect, of new ranks of work and income mainly for the familiar beekeepers, promoting its (re) economic inclusion. We search here to argue through the concepts of Sustainable Development, Productive Management of Chain and Management of the agribusiness, modern, the dynamics of the production of honey of bees in Alagoas. The objective is to describe the functioning of the chain of agro-industrial production of the honey of bees, being aimed at to identify what it hinders its development and sustainability so that in fact, if constitutes in an inclusion alternative economic partner of involved actors and, at the same time where the activity is viable inside of the current economic model. This quarrel if relates, also, with the actions and public politics necessary to stimulate the cited model of production, with sustainability.