Identificação de Características das Cooperativas Agropecuárias que Influenciam a Geração de Valor Adicionado

Abstract

This research aims to determine the strategic variables of adding value to influence the generation of value added of agricultural cooperatives. For this, we used the mean difference of the different strategies for adding value, MannWhitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests, with data from 76 agricultural cooperatives in the state of Rio Grande do Sul from 2011 to 2012. As a result, it was observed that the characteristics that affect the value added cooperatives are the presence of agribusiness, the brand itself and present the main soy product. However, when the tests are performed with the value added per cooperative, only the presence of own brand proved to be statistically different, though at a lower level of significance. Evaluating strategic variable region, the results are presented in a manner contrary, since the value added showed no statistically different between regions, but when the tests are performed with the value added by cooperating can verify significant differences.