ISHS Acta Horticulturae 155: VIII Symposium on Horticultural Economics
PRODUCTIVE SPECIALIZATION, INSTITUTIONS AND TRADE ARRANGEMENT. |
| Authors: | M. Zapata, J. Vera, J. Egea |
| Abstract:
Little ecological, socioeconomic and memorable changes may produce in very close territories a certain productive and trade specialization in a specific cultivation, as we are going to expose in three bordering territories in Murcia province: Huerta de Murcia, Campo de Cartagena and Mazarrón-Aguilas littoral area. The Huerta de Murcia and nearby areas are a superespecialized territory in lemon growing representing provincial 52% on surface. The Campo de Cartagena is hyperespecialized in green pepper (60% provincial). And the Mazarrón-Aguilas littoral in tomato (79% provincial). It has been observed, in the lemon case the great development of tradicional trade ways (97%). In green pepper, the great development of modern ways: sale at auction in special establishment (alhóndiga) 57% and producers groupped sale 33%. And in tomato, the important role of great producers and trade firms 55% and the groupped sale of producers 17%. Though a determined interaction exists between production and trade structure, three are the determinant and differential factors, one for each territory, of the actual trade structure and institutions. In the Huerta de Murcia, the persistence of a historical trade forms in constant evolution. In the Campo de Cartagena the lack of trade tradition for relatively little known products in the market as the high consumption. And in the Mazarrón Aguilas littoral, the existence of a contigent market of exportation | |
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