Reestruturação produtiva da pecuária e novas dinâmicas territoriais no município de Monteiro (PB)

Abstract

The process of modifying the technical basis of Brazilian agriculture was strongly influenced from the mid-twentieth century with the adoption of technological packages of the Green Revolution, whose main objective was to boost production and increase productivity by intensifying techniques. And the spread of financial capitalism in the countryside. In some areas or regions of the State of Paraíba, this process also presents changes in the technical basis of agriculture. This study aims to understand the process of Productive Restructuring of livestock and the new territorial dynamics in the municipality of Monteiro (PB). In the proposed study, there is a massive use of projects such as Cooperar, Agrocapri and government policies to encourage livestock production, especially milk production, as in the case of the Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar, through the Microcrédito Rural (PRONAF/B, Programa de Aquisição de Alimentos, in the form Leite (PAA/Leite) and the Pacto Novo Cariri, which gradually changed the social relations and, mainly, the production, resulting from the new productive technologies. In order to understand the process in progress, based on the descriptive-reflexive approach, once we try to analyze the phenomenon comprising the current modifications in the municipality, we use the following procedures: bibliographic survey, field research, primary and secondary data collection, and finally the processing of the data that resulted in the elaboration of maps, graphs and tables. In the current process of modifications in the productive technical base, we can also verify the interdependence of the agricultural and industrial sectors represented by the presence of the Cooperativa dos Produtores Rurais de Monteiro (CAPRIBOM), since we understand that it is one of the promoters Productive Restructuring that has influenced the territorial development and the reorganization of the rural areas of the municipality.