Distribuição espacial da produção agrícola na Paraíba: uma análise para a produção de abacaxi, banana e cana de açúcar no período de 2003 – 2016

Abstract

Agricultural production plays an important role both for local development and for the national economy. This monograph aims to show how the agricultural production of pineapple, banana, and sugar cane products is distributed in Paraíba and its microregions from 2003 to 2016. To this end, we used the variables: planted area, area harvested, quantity produced, average yield, production value from the latter, the following measures were calculated: the participation of the production value, the specialization coefficient, the global Moran index, and the local Moran index. To better illustrate, these were exposed in tables, graphs and cluster mapping of the highlighted area. Through these tools, it is possible to observe that the values for these variables of these cultures oscillated over the years, so for the state of Paraíba as for its microregions. The microregions that stood out most for each culture, in relation to the variables addressed in the state were: the North Coast for pineapple, Paraiban swamp (Brejo Paraibano) for the banana and the South Coast for the sugar cane. The specialization coefficient presented, so for the state of Paraíba as for its microregions, QL greater than 1, indicating some level of specialization for these geographic spaces, given the variable of the production value of the above-mentioned crops, except for the microregion of Guarabira banana production. In general, the Moran index presented to the microregions a level positive spatial association in relation to its neighbours, with the exception of banana production, which had a negative spatial association of microregions among its neighbours.