Revista IDEAS (Dec 2011)
Territorialidades da modernização da Agricultura em Vicente Dutra-RS entre os anos de 1960 e 1980
Abstract
During the last decades Brazilian agriculture has been undergoing deep transformations which were subjected to a process of modernization. Such process aimed at integrating, systematically, industry and agricultural activities through modern technologies. The main to implement modern agricultural technology was to reduce the famine in the planet. Therefore, thousands of Brazilian peasants were affected by such transformations. Many of them gave up agriculture; some of them were sent away from the rural area, while others still resist to the agricultural modernization process. In Vicente Dutra, small municipality situated at northwest region of Rio Grande do Sul State, started having agricultural modernization around 1960s. The rural territory of Vicente Dutra-RS shows, substantially, the faces of agricultural modernization. Even though, it is possible to identify some forms of reaction regarding agricultural modernization. Such transformations are: the growing of traditional subsistence, cooperativism, and initiatives of transformation of production which would sell it directly to the consumer. Therefore, the agricultural modernization installed in Vicente Dutra-RS is partial, and the peasants keep, even with certain difficulty, their traditional agricultural customs.
