How is the Brazilian peanut supply chain formed?

1. Integrated Processing Firms (owns the farms and processing facilities) -> Buyer's market

2. Growers -> Processing Firms -> Buyer's market

3. Growers -> Buyer's Market

The Brazilian peanut industry has a rather distinct value chain where the processing firms equally play a significant role as the actual growers. Processing firms contribute valuable inputs in the production phase in the form of resources (ie: fertilizers, materials) and the growers allot a portion of their harvest volumes to these processing firms as a form of payment. The remaining volume will then become the individual profit for the grower.

Beatrice, Terranuts Amenco, Copercana, and Coplana are among the largest processing firms in Brazil

Another common value chain is the integrated processing firms that possess their own farming facilities and are directly involved with the production, distribution, and even sales. Many of these processing firms also removed the need to deal with middlemen and engage with importers directly in a way making the importers the "middlemen" in the chain.

In the processed peanut value chain, however, the role of brokers is fast diminishing with the exception of Terranuts whose entire volume are distributed through brokers while Coplana restructured its value chain by investing in their own export sales team to handle their entire sales operation.