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Abstract
Several states and Brazilian countries already have adopted
investment programs to the local productive arrangements (LPA’s) that
involves by micro, small and median companies. However, most of the
studies on LPA’s has given little attention to the local productive arran-gements of agricultural nature. This study intends to analyze the LPA,
of irrigated agriculture, called “Drop of water” in Quixeramobim, Ceará.
It was used primary and secondary data that were obtained through
bibliographical and documental researches, case study and field rese-arches. The resulted were verified through of tabular and descriptive
analyze. Inside the arrangement analyzed we could verify the involve-ment of several partners’ from different segments that participated in hi-gher or lower degree. This involvement of several partners’ establishing
important instruments for introduction of innovations of product, pro-cess and organizational creating new competences and gains competitive
advantages. However, it was verified the existence of obstacles related to
the inexistence of inappropriate training centers for qualification of the
producers, absence of research laboratories and lack of more appropriate
credit lines adjusted producer’s reality. In spite of these problems, we can
conclude that there was gain of resulted from the collective efficiency that
was created by this productive gathering. This arrangement is a proof
that with some social organization of the local actor’s will be possible to
change the difficult reality of the families that earn from their income
agriculture in the zone semi-arid of the Ceará.