New forms of rural organization: the Rural Warehouse Condominiuns

Abstract

Considering the development of the agricultural sector in the country and political, economic and social changes, Brazil became one of the main producers and exporters of commodities in agribusiness. In addition, the logistical bottlenecks, especially the shortage in the warehousing, as well as the growing interest in Supply Chain Management and new forms of rural organization have gained importance for the productive chains. The objective of this article is to characterize the new rural organization called Rural Warehouse Condominiums. For this purpose, an applied, exploratory and descriptive research was carried out with the use of multiple case studies and literature review. The data collection was conducted through interviews, direct observations and documental analysis. It was verified that this new configuration is an expanding, viable and financially competitive model for the Brazilian agribusiness, which provides the reduction of the storage deficit and other logistics bottlenecks. In addition, they present innumerable advantages, such as the strategic commercialization of production, the reduction of storage costs and logistic costs and the increase of profit. This work contributes to the mapping of innovative practices in the storage sector and proposes a research agenda that can help on the topic.

Key-words:
warehouse; rural association; rural warehouse condominiums; agroindustrial logistic