Determinantes do preço de carne bovina na Cidade de Maputo (1998-2003)

Abstract

The present study intends to identify the main factors that influenced the formation of the price of bovine meat to the consumer in the city of Maputo in the period between 1998 and 2003. This period (1998 to 2003) was chosen because it is considered that it was from 1998 that minimum political and economic conditions are created, for the relaunch of private initiatives and the functioning of the free meat market in the livestock subsector, after the liberalization of economy in 1987. In fact, the liberalization of prices for the sale of cattle does not take place until 1991, a year before the first general elections were held in 1992. It is from 1992 that the State's programs to promote the promotion of cattle began, with the aim of replacing the herd lost during the civil war. These programs, also promoted by NGOs in almost the whole country, contributed to increase the number of employees and, consequently, to stimulate commercial exchanges. Despite the fact that production has registered significant increases in almost all provinces of the country, the city of Maputo, for being the largest urban center, with signs of greater capacity and purchasing power and better infrastructures, and therefore with a great flow of meat from other provinces, was chosen for the study.(TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)