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| Pereira, Mariana de Aragao; Vale, Sonia Maria Leite Ribeiro do; Mancio, Antonio Bento. |
| The marketing pressures for economically viable, socially fair and ecologically correct production systems have required that farmers adopt new management pratices, aiming to increase the production scale, improve the quality of the products, and reduce costs. The historical utilization of abundant, cheap and disqualified labor in the rural sector has been a barrier to the adoption of technology. This study is an attempt to describe the human resources management that have been used by beef cattle farmers, as well as to analyze the management performance in labour and technical areas during the 2000/2001 agriyear. Three-hundred and twenty questionnaires were sent by mail to farmers in the Triângulo Mineiro region. All of them were registered in the... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Human resources; Rural farm-management; Livestock.. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43684 |
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| Vale, Sonia Maria Leite Ribeiro do; Pereira, Vanessa da Fonseca; Lima Neto, Antonio Carlos; Sant'Anna, Julio Cezar Oliveira. |
| The agriculture sector has particular characteristics, general and unfavorable, which make its participants exposed to risks, and increase the complexity of making decisions. However, little is known about how farmers perceive risk in their activity. Based on a research done in the Zona da Mata region in the State of Minas Gerais, this work shows the view of a group of milk producers about the risks which they are exposed to, and also, describes the tools used by them as managing responses to these risks. Firstly, the farmers answered about the importance of the different kinds of risks in their business, and next, pointed out the methods they use to manage them. The results show the lack of a formal risk managing strategy, which has been substituted up to... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural risk management; Information; Risk and Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54599 |
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| Vale, Sonia Maria Leite Ribeiro do; Teixeira, Marcelo Brandao; Sant'Anna, Julio Cezar Oliveira. |
| The objective of this article was to analyze the managerial styles in coffee farmers of two regions in Minas Gerais State, Brazil (Sul and Zona da Mata), and the difficulties which can be compromising the administrative effectiveness. Primary data were collected from forms applied to 56 coffee farmers, in the harvest period 2003/2004. To analyze the relation between the dominant managerial styles and the reached economic and technical performances in the activity, the analysis of simple correlation was used (coefficient of Pearson). Regressions were estimated to indicate as the situational variables had intervened in the styles. Among the main results it is important to point out that the producers, in general, presented as dominant managerial style 9,9,... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Managerial styles; Managerial effectiveness; Managerial grid; Coffee production; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55181 |
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| Teixeira, Marcelo Brandao; Vale, Sonia Maria Leite Ribeiro do. |
| This work identified the management aspects of the decision making process of farmers in the Northern Region of Espirito Santo, Brazil, in 2006. Using a psychological approach, this study showed its importance in understanding farm management. The management styles and personal characteristics of the farmers and their farms were identified. The main areas of interest in management capacity improvement were also defined. This study found that family welfare is the main concern of decision makers in the Northern region of Espirito Santo, Brazil. Regarding management styles, four main styles were identified. Most of the farmers were interested in improving their management capacity through managerial training, especially the younger ones, preferably in... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Management styles; Cluster analysis; Objectives; Agribusiness; Agricultural Finance. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/60707 |
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