Análisis y descripción de la cadena de valor de la colza en Uruguay

Because of the important growth of rapeseed in recent years in Uruguay, this paper describes and analyzes the value chain of rapeseed in Uruguay for the 2021/2022 harvest, with the aim of quantifying the Gross Valued Added (GVA) of the chain. Five phases and their respective interaction are defined, in which costs and Gross Valued Production (GVP) are estimate and analyzed. These values are used to create a matrix input-output, resulting in a GVP of $601,576 thousands U$S, costs of $381,162 thousands U$S, and these generate a GVA of $220,414 thousands U$S. From these values, it can be concluded that the agricultural phase is the one that adds the greatest value to the chain (38%), followed by the agricultural services phase, contributing 14%, and the input supply phase, with 10%. In addition, the 77% of the rapeseed production grain it is export destined, where grain transformation processes are minimal, so the collection and export phase only contributes 9% to GVA. The industrial phase represents 8% of the total GVA of the chain because only 23% of rapeseed production is industrialized. Regarding the VAB in relation to the VBP, it can observe that the agricultural phase represents 42% of the VBP, industry 24% and the collection and export phase 11%. Finally, the GVA of the rapeseed value chain in Uruguay for the 2021/2022 harvest is 37%.