Wholesale market of fruits and vegetables: an analysis in the municipality of Belém, state of Pará
Agricultural marketing, Price analysis, Metropolitan Region of Belém.
The supply of fruits and vegetables in the city of Belém-Pará is carried out through the availability of regional products that enter mainly through the ports administered by the Municipality of Belém (PMB), and products imported from other regions through CEASA-PA. This research aimed to contribute to the knowledge of the participation and dynamics of the wholesale market of fruits and vegetables of Belém, regarding the supply of fairs and other establishments in the municipality, analyzing the seasonality of volume and price of the products sold. Data from the Department of Economics of the Municipality of Belém (SECON) on the volume of products offered at the level of commercialization in the ports of Feira do Açaí, Porto do Açaí, Porto de Icoaraci and Porto da Palha were used for the seasonal analysis (quantity) of time series related to the volume of fruits and vegetables sold. A fractional price analysis was also performed, in which we initially sought the consumption of hortifrúti by paraenses, using data from the Family Budget Survey (POF) conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), which allowed the identification of annual per capita household food acquisition by groups, subgroups and products raised by the POF (2017-2018), then a consultation of the prices of these products marketed by the markets was carried out. wholesalers, made available by the National Supply Company (CONAB) through the B.I (business intelligence) of the Wholesale Market of Hortigranjeiros in the database PROHORT - DAILY PRICE, which presents a simple average of the daily quotations carried out by the wholesale markets, enabling the development of seasonal analysis of prices of the products consumed in the RMB.