Mercado nacional de informação digital agroeconômica

Abstract

The objective is to analyze the market for Brazilian digital agricultural economic information. The theoretical analysis of the supply is through the Economics of Information and the demand is through a model that the information is considered an input to maximization the profit. Data were collected through the list of sites of Brazilian internet service providers to analyze the supply side. On the demand side, data were collected through the application of a questionnaire with the endusers of internet between October of 2002 and January of 2003. The general conclusion is that the private companies to remain in the internet need to increase receipts and the number of subscribers. They take little advantages of this technology to practice creative arrangements of price discrimination. Estimates of the consumption functions indicate that the nonfarm agribusiness consumes more digital information than the farmers. The level of education presents a restriction to access to this technology.