Agricultural modernization process and the trajeórias and strategies of agricultural producers taken by the city of Step Fund – RS – Brasil

Abstract

The study sought to understand the factors that induced transformations in rural properties in Passo Fundo, from the programs and projects of the state, with respect to the period known as the modernization of agriculture. By proposing a new analysis model that brought together the tools derived from the theories of production systems, types of unit production and analysis of the study trajectories reconstructed trajectories and the main strategies used in agricultural production units of the municipality through the understanding of history and logic of evolution of each property surveyed. After grouping the production units through classification by types of production units analyzed the trajectories developed by agricultural groups Units (4 types) so far.